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Daring Fireball (Articles)

Mac and web curmudgeonry/nerdery. By John Gruber.


A Better Finder Rename 8Today

Another example of a reasonably-designed file renaming utility. There’s even a Windows version.

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Name Mangler 2.0Today

In the wake of yesterday’s User Interface of the Week winner, several readers asked for recommendations for a Mac file renaming utility with a good UI. Many Tricks’ Name Mangler is a good one. Donationware.

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User Interface of the WeekYesterday

Some Windows utility for batch renaming files. Not a joke.

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Macworld Conference and ExpoNovember 28

My thanks to Macworld Conference and Expo for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. This year’s Macworld runs from 5-9 January 2009, and as usual, will be held in the Moscone Center in San Francisco. If you’re planning to attend, now’s the time to book your travel.

The Macworld Conference and Expo web site has information on conference sessions, special presentations, and expo hall highlights and activities. To say that it’s the premiere annual Apple-focused consumer event in the U.S. is an understatement.

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The Going Rate for Contract iPhone DevelopersNovember 26

Raven Zachary:

The going rate for iPhone developers, at least the developers I know and trust, is $125/hour and up. I have some friends who are booked out at $200/hour for the next few months, although $125/hour seems to be the going rate in my network. At that rate, a full-time contract iPhone developer costs $5,000/week and it may take four to six weeks for an application to be developed.

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