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I recently became aware of a beta version of a new SVN client for MacOS called Versions. I downloaded the beta to try it out.

Let me say this is probably the new de-facto SVN client for Mac users. Not only is it a powerful and full-featured client (along the lines of TortoiseSVN but with more features), but its intuitive and easy to use. I love the TRAC integration (although I havent got into it yet). I highly recommend giving it a try. Here are some screenshots:

It’s odd there is no global Clear() method on the HttpContext cache. Anyway, this is how you do it:

private static void DeleteAllCacheItems()
{
HttpContext ctx = HttpContext.Current;
IDictionaryEnumerator d = ctx.Cache.GetEnumerator();
while(d.MoveNext())
{
ctx.Cache.Remove(d.Key.ToString());
}
}

I was excited to get home last night to finally rent a movie on my AppleTV. Apple just recently announced that rentals were now available in Canada. Here are my notes:

The Bad:

There don’t seem to be all that many movies for rent. Also, you cant see which ones are available until you click on it – which is time consuming if you are just browsing. I expect this will improve over time though. One thing that really frustrated me was I could not browse for rentals from my AppleTV initially. I had to go through the process of renting one through iTunes before the menu options would appear in my AppleTV.. and they still didn’t all appear after I did. The system of ‘activating’ an AppleTV for movie rentals and encouraging users to try it out needs to be improved, or people just will not discover the feature.

The Good:

I rented a non-HD quality version of I Am Legend (starring Will Smith) for $4.99. The movie downloaded almost right away (it took about 22 minutes) and I was able to quickly sync it to my AppleTV (with some trouble.. the first time syncing it quit with no error message). Watching it on the AppleTV was simple and the video quality was excellent. All in all I was happy with this. I did not appreciate, however, only having 1 day to watch the movie after I started it.. I would be running really close to the wire if I decided to start watching it after work one day, and then finish it off the next.

All in all, the system worked well enough that I will do it again, but I wish they would improve the experience of actually renting the movie from AppleTV, and that they would tell us if a movie is available for rent without having to select it first.

According to Forbes, Apple “has been quietly positioning millions of units of a mysterious new product-almost certainly the new iPhone-in key markets since March.” Despite this, there has been no public announcement or images released of this new device.

It will almost certainly support 3G – a faster mobile internet system (so you’ll finally be able to actually watch those YouTube flicks while on the bus). Probably the storage capacity of the device will be increased too. If we’re lucky they’ll have done something about battery life too – although that seems doubtful with the demands of the 3G circuitry and any additional storage they intend to cram on there.