Dan VanWinkle

DreamAdmin is submitted to the App Store for approval! Check it out on http://www.greenmansoftware.com!

Apple rejected it today, but hopefully they will approve it soon!!

So I have been creating a few iPhone Apps lately and am nearing completion on a Dreamhost Administration App. This app will have the ability to do everything that the new Dreamhost API allows me to do. I will post more information and some screenshots when they become available. All of my iPhone Apps will be released under Green Man Software.

Just wanted to add something I was working on today. Let me know what you think and if you want me to make an inverted version of it for you Windows users. Also let me know what resolutions you want it in.

1440×900

This ‘blog’ has transformed since I first started it. I started it as a way to post things I love, without caring who read it and what they thought of it. I have since moved on to posting Paramore Wallpapers and Dreamhost Promo Codes. I am not going to lie to you and say that I regret doing so, as the Paramore/Hayley Williams now brings 100+ new people to my site a day, and the Dreamhost Promo Codes now have paid for the next two years of my hosting services (although they have not been used in a while), but because of this I have stopped posting random things, and started only posting things to help increase traffic to my blog.

I know I have made numerous posts before saying that now I am going to start blogging more often, but now I truly am. It isn’t because I want anyone to read my blog (even though it would be nice), but it is because I like looking back and seeing what I was doing at the time I wrote the posts, what I was interested in, and what I loved. I am now wanting to get back to that. So seeing as you don’t read any of my posts to begin with, only come here to get a discount on your web hosting and get a new wallpaper for your computer desktop, I am going to start posting more things for you not to read.

Enjoy!

So, I am not normally a very political person, but I vote almost every year. One of the biggest problems with me voting every year is that I never cast a fully educated vote. This year however, I am vowing to either make a very educated vote or no vote at all, even with this being the biggest election of my or any one else currently living’s lifetime.

As I am sure that many of you already know, one of two things are going to happen, we are either going to have our first female Vice President, or we are going to have our first non-white President. That is absolutely massive! Now, I could care less if a Democrat or a Republican takes office as I am registered Independent. I have always voted fir who sounded like the best candidate for the job, as I always will. Now, the reality is that there is very slim chance that an Independant will win, so please don’t comment about any non-party presidential candidate, I don’t want to hear about it. (Actually I am kidding, I really do).

So anyway, you have read this far, and I am sure that you are probably wondering why I am even writing all of this. Right? Well, whether I was right or not, I am going to tell you. I am writing all of this because I am certain that there are others out there like me that have not done all of their research in the past and probably are not planning on doing any research yet again this election season. If you are one of those people, you may want to come back and read this blog weekly.

I am planning to at the very least once a week picking a political topic, and researching the position of each of the candidates. After fully researching each topic, I am going to write a non-bias post on that topic and the candidates positions. These will not have any opinion of none in it, only the facts that I find. It is possible that after each post I will write a comment with my position and my opinion on the candidates.

P.S. I wrote this from my iPhone so when I get to my computer I will tag this article a little better.

Wow, I don’t know if any of you have looked down in the footer area lately, but I have been getting tons of spam! Anyway, I decided to finally install another plug-in to take care of all the comment spam I am getting from 1 ip address. Just over the long weekend I received 22 spam comments from the exact same ip, yet all of them had different names and emails… Hmmm, that’s not suspicious in the least now is it? Anyway, the plug-in that I installed is reCaptcha. This plug-in is exactly what I was wanting! Not only does it display a ‘captcha’ for you when entering in your comment so I don’t get spam, if you have trouble reading it, you can listen to a file and type the numbers it says. Also, the plug-in includes Mailhide to protect all of you who leave comments so your email address will not be crawled and spammed. Just thought I would let you all know!

Hey everyone! Sorry for not posting in a while… I have been pretty busy this summer with work. Anyway, I just wanted to write telling you that I have a new phone number. If you want my new number, either call my old number or write me a message and I will reply back with my new number. That’s all. Hopefully I will write a bigger update soon, but it takes a bit to write on a phone. Have a great day!

Dan

So, DreamHost being the ultra cool hosting company they are, gave me 5 amazing invitation codes to pass along to you. They are only good for 2 weeks, and only good to the first person who uses them, but they are Amazing! (Yes, with a capitol A)…

Here is what you get

• Four (4) times the normal disk and bandwidth! (2TB Disk and 20TB Bandwidth)
• $150 off a five-year plan ($267 Total)
• $200 off a ten-year plan ($514 Total)

So, in another words, if you aren’t going to sign up for either a five-year or a ten-year plan, these codes may not be for you, as my other promo codes are more valuable. However, if you do sign up for five or ten years, these provide substantial savings!

Now, to the first lucky person to use them, here are your invitation codes (enter in the promo code box).

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I am sure these will go fast, so use them now or lose them forever!

Update (2008-07-15): These are surprisingly still active, but I don’t know how long for. I will let you all know if DreamHost de-activates these.

Interested in signing up for dreamhost? Well, you might as well use one of these codes and get the maximum possible discount which is $50 on whichever plan you choose.

DVW50OFF = $50 discount
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What do you get?

• Unlimited Disk Storage
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Besides these great features dreamhost is a green hosting company i.e. they purchase renewable energy certificates that offset the carbon emissions generated by their business activities.

How to use dreamhost promo code?

1. Go to the dreamhost signup page by clicking on DVW50OFF, DVW50DOMAIN, or DVW50IP
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Oh, if you want in on this sweet referral program, just sign-up for Dreamhost and become one through the Control Panel!

Well, I hope these are useful to someone… Oh, and if you end up using one of these, just leave me a comment letting me know your new domain name and I will add you to my links

The Need to Know:
Title: MultiClutch
Author: Will Henderson
Version: 1.0
Price: Donation
Website: http://wcrawford.org/2008/02/28/everytime-i-think-about-you-i-touch-my-cell/

MultiClutch is a fairly simple App that installs as a preference pane in your System Preferences. After the install, you will see the logo above in the “Other” area of your System Preferences. The layout of the preference pane is very minimalistic and very simple. On the left side you have a list of programs that you have MultiClutch enabled on including a “General” category which will translate across all Cocoa applications. To add an application, all that you need to do is click the + icon as you do in many MacOS programs and select the application you desire. On the right side is a list of multitouch commands and what key press each command will perform.

Now, with the amazing-ness of adding MultiTouch commands to any application, there are a few things left to be desired. One huge functionality that I would love to see added to the program is the ability to add single letter commands without the need for the Command, Option, or Control keys. For example, in Aperture, I cannot add the ‘f’ key press by itself for going to full screen. I also cannot add ‘Option+F’ to filter the images. This may not be a big deal to those people who don’t use Aperture, but this is across the board including the likes of Photoshop and Gimp. It would also be nice to see some Carbon functionality added (You can’t use MultiClutch in Finder), even though this is not the fault of the Author, the addition of this can’t be done until Apple adds this. Luckily you can combine QuickSilver and MultiClutch and make a script to do whatever you want, then add what key presses you want to MultiClutch then to QuickSilver as a trigger (In that order, trust me).

With all of that, I still couldn’t live without the likes of MultiClutch in Firefox to browse back or in any program be able to zoom out then back in to lock my computer (Thanks to QuickSilver and a script I wrote, which I then tied to ‘Command+Option+Control+L’). Even with all of the missing functionality, MultiClutch is still an Application that any MultiTouch enabled notebook should not be without. Unfortunately for us, Will has accepted a job with Apple which means he can’t really work on MultiClutch any longer without it belonging to Apple (Thanks to the agreement ALL Apple employees sign when they start working there, I even had to sign one while working as a Mac Specialist in an Apple Store which pretty much stated *All Your Ideas Are Belong to Apple*). Luckily for us, Will has made the source code publically available (which I have and am working on editing) so the Open Source community can start working on it, and the fact that he is working at Apple now also means that it is possible that many people at Apple are working on integrating this into Mac OS as you are reading this.

If you love this program enough to use it everyday, please don’t forget to donate to Will. I am sure he will appreciate it greatly (I know he sent me a nice thank you email). Have fun with what should have came from Apple!

Update: I recently found a way to ‘trick’ MultiClutch into accepting single keypresses (even though they are not really single keypresses at all)! If you are like me and want to use things like ‘F’ for fullscreen in Aperture or option + [another key] in any other program, you can simply press ‘fn + F’ for ‘F’ or ‘fn + option + F’ for ‘option + F’ ect. Leave a comment if this helps anyone!