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In Mac OS X 10.5 Apple added a new set of API’s for adding an application to the users login items in Cocoa.

In looking for the way to use this new API, I stumbled upon Justin Williams’ blog carpeaqua.com where Justin was nice enough to put together a code example project showing just how to use this new API.

You can grab the sample project at his public code repository http://secondgear-public.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/SGLaunchAtLogin/

Thanks again to Justin for making this available.

Hopefully this page helps with his Google position for people searching for this info.

Read his full post at: http://log.carpeaqua.com/post/27727810/adding-an-application-to-login-items-in-mac-os-x

Desktop Remind is currently a featured download AND a staff pick on Apple.com’s downloads page!

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/

I am happy to announce a new Mac product called, Desktop Remind!

Desktop Remind embeds your calendar on your desktop, above your wallpaper but below your desktop items.

With Desktop Remind you can quickly and effortlessly now exactly what is on your calendar for the current day, and beyond.

Desktop Remind is user configurable, so you can place it exactly where you want on your desktop, and configure the font and font color to match your taste and/or wallpaper.

Desktop Remind also works with multi-monitor setups.

Feel free to give it a try for 14 days before a registration is required. A registration can be purchased for $4.99. Purchase here

I thought I would give an update for those that are interested…

My son has been sick and continued getting worse yesterday, so we took him into the ER, worrying that his shunt had malfunctioned (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP_shunt).

6 hours later they decided to do surgery.
They went in and found that his shunt had broken in two places.
The even worse part was that one of the parts that broke, was the part that goes into the brain and into the ventricle.
Which meant that they had to remove the broken one from his brain, and then insert a new one into the brain.
This is bad because obviously anytime you are actually messing with the brain it is dangerous, because of the chance of the brain bleeding and other brain related issues.
The second bad part was that they could not find one of the broken off pieces, so it is still floating around his brain.

The replaced the shunt and he is now in ICU so they can watch him to make sure there is no brain bleeding and that the piece that is floating around doesn’t hurt anything.

He is still in a lot of pain, but overall is doing ok.