The good news is she got the part of a crow, along with two of her good friends. The surprising thing was I also ended auditioning and got the part of Uncle Henry.

Its only a small part appearing in just two scenes so it should be fun without being too arduous.

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It has been working really well. During this time my wife has been using an iMac at our home while I have been using a Mac Book Pro from where ever I happen to be.

Using this method syncing only takes place when both machines are logged in at home on the same network.

Recently I also started using a Mac Pro at home. I now wanted to keep three machines in sync. As the Mac Pro is basically now my main machine with the Mac Book Pro only being used when I am out of the house I decided to reconfigure our calendar syncing so it used BusySync between the iMac and the Mac Pro. As these are in the same house on the same network and almost always on syncing is now very quick.

To keep the Mac Book Pro in sync I have opened a MobileMe account. I use this to sync the Mac Book Pro to the Mac Pro. In turn the Mac Pro will sync with the iMac.

This means if I am now away from home and my wife adds something to the calendar on her machine it will be on the Mac Pro within a few minutes , then as the Mac Pro keeps MobileMe up to date it should be on my Mac Book Pro within an hour.

Overall a pretty pleasing outcome.
As I have never had a .mac account or MobileMe account before I am now beginning to investigate the other syncing options available to keep my desktop and laptop in sync.

Arrived yesterday after a 10 and a half hour flight that passed amazingly quickly. I have a policy when flying long haul not to read the film reviews to pick what movies I watch but simply pick the longest. The 747-400 I flew on was reasonably new so had movies on demand even in economy so that was quite nice. Just in case you interested I watched There will be blood (a good 2 and a half hours) and National Treasure: Book of secrets (getting on for 2 hours). Both were quite watchable. I also listened to this weeks episode of Mac Break Weekly which I was really pleased to see was over 2 hours long.

Its now Saturday morning and my body is still adjusting to the 8 hour time difference. I managed to sleep (well forced myself to keep my eyes closed) until about 6am but the body is insisting it is now the afternoon and I should be out of bed. Oh to be a teenager again where the fact of it being the afternoon would have brought no guilt about being in bed.

Going to go to local farmers market today with John and Viola who I am staying with. Then I will begin the task of finding my children Converse All Star shoes.

I will try to post some photos to flickr.

This blog will become only about myself and my family especially concentrating on our current responsibilities as Church planters.

All geeky posts and techy posts will now be on my company blog at http://www.mamooba.com/blog

Why am I doing this? There are several reasons. Most people will be interested in only one or the other aspects of my life and those who are interested in both wont mind subscribing to both. Also these days a techy blog is an important part of being a micro-ISV so it makes more sense to move techy posts over there.

Today I came across an article from Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzch that may solve the mystery.

It seems the lid sensor can sometimes be a little sensitive and certain movements make it think its been opened, which by default wakes the machine up.

A quick command line entry sudo pmset lidwake 0 turns this default off and will hopefully solve the problem. Now when I lift the lid I have to press the main power button to wake the machine up.

Oh life is tough but I think I can get through it!

The guaranteed applications in the bundle are.

1Password
CoverSutra
Cha-Ching
iStopMotion
Awaken
AppZapper
TaskPaper

Once 5000 bundles are sold cssEdit also becomes part of the deal for everybody regardless of when they bought the bundle.

Two other locked application that will be opened up based on the number of bundles sold are SnapX Pro X and Pixelmator.

To total value of the products normally would be $343.75

I already own three of the app in the bundle (1Password, Cha-Ching and cssEdit) so I am going to wait and see if the unlock numbers are reached before I make a final decision but to be honest its almost a no brainer.

Last year there was lots of controversy that the developers where being ripped off. I can only assume that all the developers in the bundle are happy with their deal or their product wouldn’t be there.

The icing on the cake is that 25% of the purchase price is donated to charity.

So the good part of Mac Heist is.

• Developers get new users on terms they must be happy with or they wouldn’t do it.
• Charity get a bucket load of money.
• The people behind Mac Heist get a bucket load of money.
• We get a great software bundle for an absolute bargain price.

The bad side might be if these bundles become to common then maybe people will stop buying Mac Software at normal prices , always waiting for the next bundle. Which in the end will be bad for everyone if developers can’t afford to develop software because no one is willing to pay for it.

I have to be honest and say I’m not sure how I feel about this.

Newsgator say expanding the use of their client products will improve the attraction of their server based offerings. If this is true then future updates to NetNewsWire will hopefully be frequent and maintain the products current excellence.

If however this decision has come because NewGator have just found themselves in a very crowded market space (especially in the open source arena) where its very hard to make money on client software then the future of NetNewsWire maybe a little less certain, which is sad for what I believe is one of the Macs best software offerings.