unlimited free online storage

6.12: summary:
. there is plenty of free storage online:
2GB from dropbox
5GB from google's g'Drive
7GB from Microsoft's SkyDrive,
and 5GB sync'ing services from
Ubuntu One and Apple's iCloud;
however,
iCloud doesn't sync just any folder:
it sync's your iWork doc's,
and 3rd party app's are free to sync
what's in their sandbox;
it also pushes your itune purchases
to all your devices .

. there are many more free sites too,
and, even some unlimited free plans
as long as you're publicly sharing your files,
or not using an ad'blocker, etc .

. DropBox and SkyDrive may be deleted
if not visited every 90 days;
google's gmail has an inactivity policy
but it's Drive service apparently does not .

5.5: news.cyb/net.dropbox/no passwords needed for hours!:
"( Why I switched from Dropbox to Windows Live Mesh ...)

. dropbox had an amazing lapse in security:
for several hours any password would open any acct!

review Kochan`Programming Objective C 2.0

co.net/amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-2-0-Stephen-Kochan/dp/0321566157:
(review of Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (2nd Edition))
-- review not accepted by amazon.com
[programming is: fun!] (5stars)
(tags: iphone, beginners, objective-c, mac programming)

stepwise.com flushed book's downloads

11.1: co.net/scott anguish/bk"Vermont Recipes resources flushed:

. explore stepwise.com being shut down,

view owner scott anguish at twitter/sanguish

co.net/amazon/Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X: the vermont recipes:

-- book review not accepted by amazon.com:

interesting history (1 star)

(tags: cocoa, advanced)

. the book gives a bad link to the source code download;

http://graphics.stepwise.com/Articles/VermontRecipes/VermontRecipesProj.dmg

as of Halloween 2009, Scott Anguish has emptied that site

leaving nothing but a link to the site of the newest cocoa book:

http://cocoadesignpatterns.squarespace.com/

and another link to his twitter account

http://twitter.com/sanguish

where he describes himself as depressed, disgruntled employee .

. I did find another source for both the source code

http://web.archive.org/web/20020616113229/http://graphics.stepwise.com/Articles/VermontRecipes/

and a beta version of the book itself in pdf format;

http://web.archive.org/web/20050326090137/http://graphics.stepwise.com/Articles/VermontRecipes/VermontRecipes.pdf

but he does sound intent on finding such sources and removing them .

(that site also had the errata sheet, which I copied from google's cache) .

. I gave this book one star simply to

bring that little surprise to much attention;

otherwise, I still think it's a good deal,

since Apple's SDK and my other textbooks give plenty of source code;

while this book warns you to study obj'c coding elsewhere

and then talks you through the many cocoa idioms .

. my intended route for using this book

will be (in this order):

Programming in Objective-C 2.0

Cocoa Design Patterns

Xcode 3 Unleashed

and, finally,

this book (Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X) .

. interestingly,

Scott Anguish (who dumped the sample code site)

coauthored [Cocoa Programming] with Erik Buck

http://www.amazon.com/Cocoa-Programming-Scott-Anguish/dp/0672322307/

and it is Buck's [Cocoa Design Patterns]

that will have convinced many of us to 2nd-rate Anguish's [Cocoa Programming]

-- an otherwise legendary book .

[12.30: I had used Google's cache of

http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/VermontRecipes/errata.html

but have since found this site works: vermontrecipes.com/errata.html

as do these links for various downloads:

11.1: Cocoa Recipes old downloads:

. web.archive.org has the book as a beta (pdf) .

. link to a directory page with some good .dmg links

11.2: Cocoa Recipes current downloads:

Vermont Recipes downloads intro page

source code and project files.

-- can only be opened in older versions of Xcode.

errata for the book

]

11.2: co.net/g'sidewiki/stepwise.com/site of code samples for "vermont recipes":

Don't look for technical content of any amount.

http://stepwise.com/

site of code samples for "vermont recipes"

http://web.archive.org/web/20020616113229/http://graphics.stepwise.com/Articles/VermontRecipes/

flossmanuals.net

11.30: sci.addn/net.flossmanuals.net:

http://en.flossmanuals.net/NvU/IntroductionToStyles