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One week with the iPad

April 9, 2010

Please bear with me as I type this review directly on the iPad — on Pages to be copied into Word­Press — while reclin­ing on the sofa.  Although I have used it in a num­ber of other ways, my intent right now is to get a good feel for using it in this par­tic­u­lar real-life […]

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Sent from my iPad

iPad Wordpress Screenshot April 3, 2010

I have seen the future of casual com­put­ing and it is the iPad.

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My harrowing adventures with Mozy, TechTools, and Jungle Disk

January 24, 2010

I have exper­i­mented with online backup solu­tions over the past few weeks.   I keep local back­ups, but the say­ing goes that any impor­tant dig­i­tal data should exist in three places or you should con­sider it nonex­is­tent.  In fire, flood, or EMP, the backup drive across the room is not going to help. What I have I have two […]

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I take it FedEx shipped a lot of Snow Leopard

August 29, 2009

I guess FedEx shipped enough copies of Snow Leop­ard yes­ter­day that they had this pre­pared pho­to­copy attached to my “sorry, we missed you” tag:

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The Apple keyboard under Linux, revisited

August 27, 2009

Since I made my orig­i­nal blog post about using the Apple key­board under Linux two years ago, did a bit more refine­ment to the process.  I don’t think I blogged about it, but did post a few instruc­tions and con­fig­u­ra­tion files to my “notes to myself” wiki at Stack­Over­flow (no, not THAT Stack­Over­flow). To this […]

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OS">In which I rant about the sorry state of tabbed documents under Mac OS

March 18, 2009

One of the things the Mac is known for is its con­sis­tency in key­board short­cuts.  Obvi­ously, the cut, copy, and paste short­cuts are the same across apps.  Cmd-comma always brings up pref­er­ences, when avail­able.  Cmd-W closes the cur­rent win­dow.  Cmd-P is print.  Cmd-Shift-P is print set­tings.  The Cmd-whatever list goes on and on: N for […]

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IP5 iPhone/iTunes Videos Feed">My Hacked-Together IP5 iPhone/iTunes Videos Feed

March 1, 2009

The offi­cial videos for Ignite Port­land 5 have been up for a while, as have the unof­fi­cial ones from #lin­ux­aid.  They are both on Blip.tv, and I would really like to be able to carry the videos around on my iPhone to show to peo­ple as well as view them on the TV with the […]

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Ummm… Apple? Not so much with the Comic Sans, mkay?

February 9, 2009

Ummm… Apple?  I real­ize this is a debug USB dri­ver for devel­op­ers.  The aver­age end user won’t ever see it.  But knock it off with the Comic Sans MS, mkay?  It is in both the readme.rtf and the installer, but should be in nei­ther.  Comic Sans has been known to cause invol­un­tary con­vul­sions and has […]

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Through the looking glass

January 21, 2009

You know how, in Alice’s Adven­tures Through the Look­ing Glass, she goes into a mir­ror world where every­thing is back­wards?  In tak­ing Pho­to­Booth pic­tures of Ebenezer the other day, I came to real­ize that there is a sim­i­lar mir­ror world in my Mac.  Maybe this isn’t sur­pris­ing, con­sid­er­ing Neo’s trip down the rab­bit hole or […]

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The Mac Keyboard Illusion

December 25, 2008

Exhibit A: a Her­mann Grid Illu­sion Exhibit B: a mod­ern Mac key­board This explains why I keep see­ing crumbs and lint between the keys when there actu­ally are none.

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Recent acquisitions

September 10, 2008

The Mac Mini hooked up to the TV: upgrad­i­nated! When did mem­ory become so cheap?  It came with the factory-stuffed pair of 256MB sticks.  Watch­ing MP4 videos with 512MB was pass­able.  Watch­ing those videos while it did any­thing else in the back­ground (down­load­ing, transcod­ing, or even with iTunes sit­ting idle) was ch-ch-ch-choppy.  It now has […]

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New Apps!

May 27, 2008

The new Deli­cious Library is out!  This one includes pretty easy web­site pub­lish­ing.  You can check out my library of books and DVDs right here.  I am still con­fused by the sort order on the web export–it does not appear to be by alpha­bet­i­cal order by title or author–so I’m not sure how you’re supposed […]

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