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Apparently, there is another Frequency out there (thanks to Ean White for pointing this out to me). I’ve contacted the other developer, and we have decided to co-exist. He was very gracious and accomodating, and I am very appreciative of that.

The other Frequency is an audio program for Mac OS X, and from what I gather, it’s excellent. Go check it out!

Okay. I promised myself I was going to take a night off from working on Frequency tonight. Instead, I got the Mac OS 9 version ready for beta testing. Anyone else interested, please let me know. It may work on Mac OS 8.5/8.6 as well. I’m not really sure. I’ll have to see if I can weasel access to a System 8 (remember Copland?) machine tomorrow.

So the OS 9 version is in the hands of beta testers. Now I’m off to polish up the Windows beta. That should be fun. 😛

Oh, yeah: If anyone knows of any Unicode/UTF-8 resources, tutorials, or whatnot, please let me know! I want to make Frequency more international-aware soon. (Dexter, are you reading this?)

Well, this is it. Tomorrow is the big day, when Frequency (at least the OS X version) is unleashed upon the world. Special thanks to Dave Mancuso, Mike Williams, Andre Garzia, Christian Crumlish, Rob Tillotson, and Michael (something) for beta testing the Mac OS X version. Next on the list is to finish up the Classic version and get it out the door, then knuckle down on the Windows version. After that, it’s off to 1.1, hopefully with all three platforms in sync. I’ve got big plans for future versions.

Another thanks to Mike for having the eyes of a hawk.

And an extra special thanks to Dave for helping with the documentation, which would have been much sparser if not for his involvement.

More info about Frequency is (finally) available here.

Oh, and the official “Powered By Frequency” web badge is finished:

What do you think?

Liberation Day: And so, sovaldi at this moment, as the Mordor shadow of Saddam Hussein, a truly evil man who, like a sociopathic murderous husband, killed everything that he could not control, lifts from the long-suffering people of Iraq, all of us, on the left and the right, Democrats and Republicans, America-lovers and America-haters, Syrians and Kuwaitis and Israelis and Palestinians, owe it to our common humanity to stop, put aside — not forever — our doubts and our grief and our future fears, and for one deep moment, celebrate. Well put words by Gary Kamiya. Nice Tolkien reference, too.

Scary stuff from Kevin Sites: As we moved up on a final checkpoint, some men beckoned us to come a little bit closer. We looked at them. They didn’t look like Peshmerga. And they stopped us. And we told them that we were journalists. And they basically made us get out of the car and they told us we were American spies, started to get very angry with us, started to point their Kalashinikovs at us.

My taxes are done.

The Mac OS X release of Frequency is 99% done.

The Mac Classic release is about 90% done.

Life is good.

BBC: US tanks drove unhindered into public squares on the eastern bank of the Tigris for the first time… Wow.

Insuring your weenie: Krehling said the policy covers anything that happens to anyone or anything in a 50-foot radius of his hot dog cart, advice which includes him and his customers. Thanks for the link, Bill.

Just talked to my wife, who just talked to my sister. Apparently my nephew hasn’t worn pants since Saturday. Seems he’s more likely to use the potty when he’s not wearing pants.

John Dvorak: Right now, all things being equal, Apple should be able to grab half the market for operating systems. If it’s as aggressive as Microsoft was with Netscape and essentially gives away the OS to the installed base, Apple could possibly knock Microsoft out of the box completely. Hey, that’s great, John, but how does Apple make money by giving away its OS on hardware it doesn’t sell? Am I missing something?