Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
While I was reading this, I liked to imagine that I was at university and that Douglas Crockford was the insanely popular genius professor that showed up late for lectures, and then either spoke too fast or else mumbled a lot, and then locked himself in his office refusing to answer the door during office […]
An experiment (in part to settle something of academic debate); what is faster new Array() or [] 1? The function for the test case: Yes, I realize that test #2 and test #5 result in an array with a length of 2,000,000 (vs. 1,000,000 for the other 4 tests). Now for some chart porn; results: […]
On a regular basis (talking “daily, all day” here), I run n tabs in an open Terminal window where n > 1 (and usually n > 4). And so each time I open up on these tabs and cd into the directory I need, I’m hitting ⇧⌘i to set a custom title on that tab; […]
I broke down and decided to try out Google’s Chrome browser after having heard so many positive reviews of it. It’s backed by WebKit–just like Safari, my current favorite–and so if nothing else, I know it has a tried and true and powerful engine going behind the scenes. That said, I’ve tried out more than […]
It started simply enough. A simple 1 question: “Is it a button?” Referring to this: This is (of course) the “All Sizes” button for any given photo on Flickr. And (also “of course”) depending on how pedantic you want to get and/or how technical, it’s arguably not a button at all: …it’s an <a> masquerading […]
Following up on the September post (“advise me: enhancing storage“)–we went ahead and put a shiny new 1 TB Western Digital hard drive 1 into Malkovich, effectively quadrupling the storage (re this particular problem) and paving the way for a lot more life out of this ol’ iMac. The idea for this particular upgrade owes some […]
Since moving into our new home, we’ve been trying to sort out our home audio situation. We listen to a lot of music 1 around here. Though we were feeling cramped, one of the nice things about our condo’s small footprint was the fact that that the music could be heard throughout the house without […]
…or, how I added storage to my iMac and successfully put off getting another computer for at least another year? Malkovich 1is running low on storage. Today’s free space count is something like 26.09 GB. Still reasonably respectable but considering total drive capacity started at 250 GB, we’re certainly feeling cramped. Personally, I blame all […]
Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) is here, and that’s plenty exciting. All the refinements–in the UI and under the good–are getting their due play 1. One of those refinements: all of Java’s roads lead to 64-bit Java SE 6 2. If you’re not panicking (or at least a little alarmed) then don’t bother reading onward. […]
A self-professed miser and amateur budgeteer, I’ve been hearing rumors of Mint.com‘s awesomeness for quite some time now. A long-time Quicken user, I’ve been a bit reluctant to try it out – once I’ve gotten into the groove of a particular apparatus or routine, I’m loathe to break from it 1. But Quicken has left […]