MildMannered Industries

Well, it’s taken a long time getting there, but Baseline 1.5 is now available for download.

Improvements include the much requested multiple item selection in the directory, browser, and duplicate views. Once you’ve selected multiple items, you can now delete or compress them, which should make tidying up your disk much easier.

Just in case you delete the wrong stuff, multiple levels of Undo are supported, which will whisk your files or folders back out of the Trash.

Compression has changed, and now uses zip instead of gzip, just like the Finder, and can be applied to both files and folders. Archiving directories using tar is now no longer supported (if you’re really going to miss it, let me know).

On the performance front, several obscure crashers have been removed, improving Baseline’s stability, and several minor memory leaks have been fixed.

Baseline 1.5 is a recommended free upgrade for all existing registered customers.

with Clark Cox’s handy cheat sheet.

A subject dear to my own heart.

Still sticking with the 15″ MBP for now though …

I’ve been looking for a new digital camera for a while – my current camera is a venerable Canon Digital Ixus 400.

Sadly, the iPhone’s built-in camera isn’t up to much.

Nikon have just announced a new range of compact digital cameras.

My priorities are good performance in low light levels, in something that’s compact enough for me to carry it around. The Nikon CoolPix S630 looks like it might just do the trick, with a 7x optical zoom, and up to ISO 6400.

I keep on finding myself temporarily hacking NSLog(@"Font families = %@", [UIFont familyNames]) to my applicationDidFinishLaunching method, to check whether a particular font is available.

Details on the iPhone fonts can be found at Late Night Code and at Daring Fireball.