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Today was surprisingly full of things to do. I helped move around my parents new built in cabinets as each was painted in the backyard. After this we headed out for the afternoon where I purchased a Mac Mini. I had been thinking about buying a “cheap” Apple, if such a thing exists, for a while for iPhone development use. I’m no wiz kid at this sorta thing, but I thought if nothing else I’ll learn some neat stuff. So, I have spent the later half of the day setting up my new little machine. I’m rather impressed at how effectively it handles large loads. Being only the base model with 1GB of RAM I wasn’t expecting a screamer, but I have been rather nasty to it, and it just doesn’t give up. I’ve experienced only one lock up of a single application and that was iTunes, which I’ve experienced lock ups with on Windows when it was the only application running.

While I was installing updates and getting things settled in on the new system, I took the time to explore what IDE apps are available for OSX and stumbled upon a nice one called Coda. I’ve only played with it breifley and will have to use it to get a better idea of how well it works, but in terms of bragging rights it looks like a great program. I played with a few of the sample applications for the iPhone, but have a lot of reading to do before I figure out what I need to make various things work, or to write an application at all for that matter. Luckily I have tomorrow off from work, so I will have some time to play around with it some more. I didn’t however manage to get my timeline laid out. I still need/want to do this, my new toy kinda distracted me from that task. I will take another stab at this tomorrow and see if I have anymore luck, cause I sure as heck don’t have anymore money :-).