Robert.Hodgen.me

After upgrading the hardware on my OS X Server I decided to do a fresh install in an effort to speed things up and just clear any junk that might have accumulated over time. I made backups of everything I needed. As it turns out my iCal server didn’t get properly backed up… I followed Apple’s suggestions for backing up the iCal server data store but it ended up not copying everything it needed so now I’m without calendar data. Everything else is fine though, so that’s good.

Over on my Mac forum I’ve posted a list of items I think Apple may announce tomorrow at the WWDC 10 Keynote.

My top picks:

• New iPhone – I’m almost positive Apple will announce a new iPhone tomorrow, probably calling it iPhone 4, iPhone HD or just iPhone.
• iPhone OS 4.0 – Apple will probably preview more of iPhone OS 4.0 and give a sold release date (probably within a few weeks or a month, my best guess is sometime just before the new iPhone is available).
• iPad OS 4.0 – Apple has already said that iPad OS 4.0 will not be available until after summer, but I’m betting developers will get a SDK.
• Mac OS X 10.7 – While I think they’ll talk about it there will probably be a developer preview and a name (at best).

Wild cards:

• Apple TV – A refresh of the Apple TV, I’m thinking more of an Xbox/PS3 as far as games/Apps and an overhaul of the existing functions. Also Apple’s Game Center in iPhone OS 4.0 ties into this idea nicely.
• iWork/iLife 10 – Both iWork and iLife are still on the 09 versions, usually they are updated early in the year but it’s never too late to push out a small update and charge people money for a feature or two they’ll never use.

You can read the full post and my additional comments at http://osx411.com/index.php?/topic/75-my-picks-for-wwdc10/

I went by my local Apple store this morning and picked up an iPad with a friend. I’m posting this from the Wordpress iPad app! I’ve got some pictures from the event and I’ll post them up on OSX411 sometime soon. My dad got his shipped and it didn’t come until after I was back and we had eaten lunch.

I just updated my portfolio website (http://roberthodgen.com) to reflect my new age and replaced the Blog section with Sites, a listing of all my current websites.

Last night I bought Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 to play over the weekend. I knew that the first modern warfare was a short singleplayer game, but I was still expecting to play the singleplayer over the weekend. I ended up beating the singleplayer in less than 6 hours the same night I bought it. I wanted to beat the singleplayer before playing the multiplayer online, which is the real reason I purchased it.

Over the last few weeks I have been debating whether or not to change OS X 411 from a blog running Wordpress to a forum running Invision Power Board. My friend Jason Hilton recommended I install a forum and highly recommended IPBoard as he was pleased with it on his last project: Mustang411.com.

So yesterday I purchased IPBoard plus the blog and I’ve been working on transferring some of the most popular blog posts over to the forum. The new site incorporates a new blog, from now on I’m going to try to pick the best threads from the forum for use on the official OS X 411 blog. In addition to the official blog, users are able to create their own blogs on the website, enabling them to blog about projects or whatever.

I also setup a twitter account, @osx411 where I’ll probably tweet for some of the blog posts.

Over the weekend I spent some time moving all (my live websites) over to my mac mini running Mac OS X Server. I’m replacing a GoDaddy VPS not because I wasn’t happy with it but just for a change a more control. The mini is located at home and this is a proof of concept for me. I’m using DynDNS.com to update the DNS records every time my dynamic IP address changes.

So far these are the domains I’m hosting at home:

• roberthodgen.com
• hodgen.me (all subdomains like robert.hodgen.me, apps.hodgen.me, etc.)
• osx411.com
• swapitapp.com

If I create any new websites I’ll probably add them to the mac mini.

A while ago I made a portfolio that I put up on roberthodgen.com, I liked the design a lot, seeing as how its clean, so I wanted to adapt that to a Wordpress them for my blog. And that’s exactly what I spent some time on yesterday and today.

New Blog Design

I wanted to have a common theme between the two website (my portfolio and this blog) and I think I’ve achieved that with this new Wordpress theme.

My tweets will now show up inline with my blog posts. They will be posted under the Tweet category and tagged with a few tags like @roberthodgen, twitter and tweets.

Like everyone else on the internet today I enabled Google Buzz in Gmail, check it out at google.com/profiles/RobertHodgen for stuff from me on Google Buzz. I’ve also “linked” it to my twitter account as well @roberthodgen.