Battery Update 1.2

The BatteryUpdater will check to see if a battery needs to be updated on startup, wake from sleep, and when a battery is inserted. If in these cases there is no AC power supplied, it will then wait until AC power is present and then check to see if the battery needs to be updated. If the battery needs to be updated it will update it automatically. Wait 30 seconds before you validate the installation.

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No big deal right? Usually no, but this guy blogged about it (and well, it’s a good read).

Buzz Andersen talks about his love for Apple, and how he lost it. It’s a peek inside Apple Inc. and a look at the rise and fall of a software developer.

Perhaps most importantly of all, though, I began to feel more and more that my job at Apple, once a source of such growth, was now holding me back creatively.  The natural curiousity, drive, and entreprenurial spirit that had once led me to develop two significant Mac applications, write a widely read weblog, and explore a variety of experimental side projects, had been all but crushed under the weight of a gigantic bug queue and long commute.  My well respected side projects were rapidly turning into abandonware, and my once compelling web profile had been reduced to a trickle of Twitter and Flickr posts.

I was reading this 5thirtyone.com blog entry about Mailplane, a new desktop app (currently private beta, alas) that controls your Gmail mail account, thinking “wow, pretty neat, but not great.” Then I came upon this:

Anyone who uses screenshots to supplement their emails will enjoy the convenience of the ‘Screenshot’ functionality built right into Mailplane. ‘Screenshot’ will automatically open Apple’s Grab utility. Once you’ve made your selection, Mailplane automatically attaches the image to your current email.

Whoa, now that’s utility. And there’s more, including integration with Adress Book, iPhoto and more. <Drool>.

See a 5 min. (29MB) live demo of the application.

Upon sitting down at my fav cafe, I found myself opening my browser (Firefox 2), clicking Applekey-T three times (to create three more tabs), and clicking on  the following bookmarks to load pages:

1. Google AdSense — checking my vast revenue from yesterday
2. Google News
3. Google AdWords — see how my ads fared yesterday
4. Gmail

In that order.

And it struck me

Not only am I visiting four Google properties, I’m visiting them first, before any other pages on the Web (which is rumored to have tens of thousands of pages).

It’s a sign either of Google’s incredible domination of the Web, or of my predilection for the company’s services. Or both.

Am I putting too many eggs in one basket? What do you think?