Posted By Quentin Carnicelli on March 5th, 2006

Mac OS X Internals: “iremoted is a command-line program that listens for [Apple Remote Control] events and prints the names of the buttons in question.”

Posted By Paul Kafasis on March 5th, 2006

If you don’t filter your mail, there’s a better than average chance you receive email regarding pills or potions to increase the length and girth of, well, about the only thing besides steel girders to which the word ‘girth’ is applied. Whether you have such an appendage is unimportant to the spammers, so long as they get to your inbox. This is an old story, at least in terms of Internet time, though the problem has been growing.

However, there’s a new twist today, as it seems there’s a slight chance that such an email may contain the return address ‘info@rogueamoeba.com’. To be clear, we don’t care about your size, nor your height, weight, or skin color. We’ve not sold any email addresses, nor are we sending any spam out. Some spammer, somewhere in the world, has simply chosen ‘info@rogueamoeba.com’ as the return address on a bundle of spam, and we’re getting the bounces. We’ve since killed that address for good, so any emails you get from it aren’t coming from us.

So to reiterate: Rogue Amoeba is not spamming you. We have not sold or shared your data, nor have we purchased it. A spammer somewhere is trading on our good name, and we can only hope that karma will find him.

Posted By Paul Kafasis on March 1st, 2006

Audio Hijack Pro 2.6.5 has just been released, with several small updates. It now features the ability to power the machine on to run timers (automatic login is required), as well as adding support for the tagging of AIFF recordings. In addition, 2.6.5 is the first version with built-in support for Intel Chip Based Macs (ICBMs). We’re continuing work on Universal Binaries of all our software, so be sure to watch our Universal Binaries page here.

Posted By Quentin Carnicelli on February 22nd, 2006

Although we’ve always had complete manuals bundled with our applications, only now are they finally available for browsing on rogueamoeba.com:

Audio Hijack Pro Manual | Audio Hijack Manual | Nicecast Manual | Airfoil Manual

I’ve always wanted to make them available on the website, but the extra work of having to keep them in sync with bundled product manual prevented it. However, now that our documentation lives in a Subversion repository we can just write a shell script that grabs the latest version and then pushes it out onto the website. This all happens automatically, so the online versions will always be kept up to date.

Posted By Quentin Carnicelli on February 6th, 2006

My copy of the Human Interface Guidelines must be out of date. It doesn’t seem to cover any of this stuff…