Matilda

After many months of frustration with Typo, I finally bit the bullet and have been spending the past couple of evenings cooking up my replacement called Matilda.

It's nowhere complete, with a lot of things still to add but I eventually hope to push it to the GitHub repository and let others break it apart; but only when I'm happy with it.

To ease the transition I've also been using Google's WebMaster Sitemap tool to track dead 404 links still out there in the ether so they will point to somewhere rather than an error page.

Got logging for any 404's beyond the one's I've countered for so sooner or later things should ease up.

Admin side is a bit simplistic, but usable, need to put in RSS & ATOM feed generators and FeedBurner integration; but so far looking (fingers-crossed) good.

...if anything what took the most time was writting the Typo -> Matilda importer.

Keep you posted,

A new addon I've just discovered is a package called PRELOAD which basically runs in the background learning what kind of apps you like loading (firefox, etc.) and then puts these into free memory so when you open them they'll boot up faster.

Installing

From the terminal, install with...

sudo yum install preload //fedora
sudo aptitude install preload //ubuntu, etc.

Monitoring

You can monitor what resources it's using by...

sudo tail -f /var/log/preload.log

Or more specifically with...

sudo less /var/lib/preload/preload.state

These will give you output from it's logs as to exactly what programs it's caching and how it's operating.

Remove?

If you don't like it and want to remove it,

sudo yum uninstall preload //fedora
sudo aptitude uninstall preload //ubuntu, etc.

Links

More can be found at...

• TechThrob - Preload
• SourceForge
• redhat - history

If you're one of those guys with a hacked iPhone, you might get this error with the InstallerApp, nothing serious, just one of the repositories has changed location.

New Repository Location

• Go to Sources in Installer.app.
• Tap the Edit button. Click on the - icon over Ste Packaging source line to delete it.
• Tap the Add button and type the right new URL for STE Packaging source:
• Type in the new location.. http://repo.smxy.org/iphone-apps/

Getting Extra Space on your iPhone

PS, It's recommend you install both Community Sources and BossTool (in the Utilities category) and run the Free Disk Space tool inside BossTool in order to relocate Fonts, Ringtones and Applications to the main disk partition and thus, be able to install a lot more applications without space problems.

Note: do this in the recommended order;

• first Fonts
• then Ringtones
• and Applications at the last

As always, be careful with this; haven't done it myself btw.

Update

Just ran the BossTool on my iphone (1.1.4) and it worked fine, did each in order fonts, then ringtones, then apps.

Also try using ZiPhone to update and unlock your iphone, you should get the new sources in the installer automatically with it.

• ZiPhone

"Last year's bundle caused a frenzy in the Mac community, selling over 16,000 copies in a week. This year, we're setting our sights a little higher, with a larger bundle, a two week sale, and what we believe to be a stronger collection of apps. Simply put, this is the best Mac software deal in history."

Grab them now,

• 10 Apps for $49 (rrp $343!)

• Only 3,648 left!

• MacHeist.com

With all the talk about this hot new language it seems only right that Microsoft has moved their focus over to the opensource arena with the impending release of IronRuby.

What this is in a nutshell is a plugin to Visual Studio 2005 that allows users to develop Ruby Apps within the VS.NET Dynamic Language Runtime.

• http://www.ironruby.net/

They did this a while back with the release of IronPython (Python on .NET), but this is one developer who really hopes the impending Orcas release of Visual Studio has this beauty firmly tied in.

Fingers crossed,