I was chatting with a developer friend about crash reports and as one thing led to another, after a quick Gmail search, I ended up showing him this one particular crash report I got sometime last year:

A flash of lightning could be seen through the north-facing window, the squak of the dark night's crow taunted me from a distance as I just reloaded the library in Tangerine. Shortly after a masked butcher, knife and all, broke through my thrice-locked front door barking threats of murder, Tangerine! unexpectedly quit. As a father feels when he loses his son, I felt an overwhelming sadness until I was warmly greeted by Apple's "YOUR PROGRAM CRASHED, BROTHA!!" window suggesting I relaunch Tangerine. That's what brings me here, composing this message to you. I have personally attached the Crash Long Contents for your reviewal. I can only hope, pray, that you will use it to correct the wrong that I have experienced. Now I must bid you adieu.

I cringe whenever I get a crash report, but if they were all like this, I wouldn't mind so much.

It's from a Mr. Eric L. Pheterson. I hope he doesn't mind my publishing it here. Oh, and the bug was fixed a long time ago.

Happy new year! I had my ups and downs in 2007, but overall it was a great year for me and for Apple users in general.

As I was doing my year end review, one thing that stuck out was that 2007 was the year that I started taking workplace ergonomics seriously. I made some drastic changes and I would like to share how it made me a happier and more productive person.

MacSanta is back but in a slightly different format. You can use coupon code MACSANTA07 today to get a 20% discount at the Potion Factory Store. After today you can use MACSANTA07TEN to get 10% off until the end of the year.

There are new MacSanta deals every day so you'll want to keep an eye on it or subscribe to their feed.

Big thanks to Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba who put this together again.

My friend Steve Harris over at Reinvented Software has just released Together 2.0. It's a data organizer that does with files what iTunes does with songs. You can group, tag, rate, preview, encrypt/decrypt, and even edit files in some cases without leaving the application. It also has an automatically hiding shelf that you can quickly drop files to and add quick notes through.

This might sound a lot like Yojimbo, but Keep It Together—the previous name of Together—actually precedes Yojimbo by about two years. The just released version 2.0 takes it up a notch or two beyond Yojimbo, in my opinion.

Check out Steve's announcement post and the application itself.

DISCLAIMER: I helped with the development of this application, albeit a teeny bit.

The Leopard compatible Tangerine! is finally out. The thought of dropping DRMed song support popped into my head many times, but in the end I managed to pull through. As usual, it's a free upgrade if you bought it already, and if you didn't, you can try it for free for 15 days.

Oh, and it's got one of those huge 512 pixel icons now. I actually had to recreate it from scratch because I had lost the old one in a hard drive crash. Yep, I was one of the ninety-some percent of users who didn't backup properly. If only had I had Time Machine back then.

Tangerine!