Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
Back in April of ’08, I wrote a review of Cultured Code’s Things public beta. Since then, they have successfully completed their public beta and taken Things to market – and (first off) a hearty congratulations to them. If the measure of an application’s beta is your willingness to put down money for “the real […]
Having been “with iPhone” for about two weeks now, I thought I’d share a few thoughts: The iPhone is not the Messiah. 1 Obvious? Maybe not. The thing gets more headlines than Obama. But it’s just a phone. A really awesome phone, with lots of really awesome features – but just a phone. On the […]
Though I a possess a certain hyperbolic certainty that I was the last person in Vermont 1 to obtain an iPhone, I thought I might assemble this handy guide for the folks that (despite my aforementioned certainty) might not be on this particular wagon quite yet. Perhaps you’re waiting for a check to clear; perhaps […]
Very nice tip for folks that want to get screenshots of “mouse-down sensitive” events in OS X (e.g., drag-and-drop operations). Initiate your drag-and-drop (or other “mouse-down sensitive”) operation; ⇧⌘4 to invoke the screenshot area selector; hit the spacebar to convert it to the window selecting “camera”; click the window with the right mouse button. Voila! […]
I spent a little time this past weekend trying to wrap up my “for Ortho 0.5″ to-do list. Fixed a few obscure bugs, polished up a few items that had bugged me, deferred a few others to the Ortho 1.0 to-do list. And I was basically ready to close the book on Ortho 0.5 if […]
F_D was hit pretty hard since Sunday by a major outage in the Spacey cluster in the Dreamhost network. In a nutshell: shit was down for days. Where do we stand? As of this evening, and after lots of unacceptably bad best case scenarios described, the damage is relatively minimal. Mail has been back solidly […]
Apple’s Automator has been a mixed bag for me since its release in 2005 1. For renaming a wad of files, it has been great: select them, invoke Automator, and seconds later they’ve all been renamed to conform to the convention you had in mind. Exported charts from Excel too large? Pass in those files and […]
I picked up some new headphones recently, a pair of Skullcandy INK’D earbuds after reading some great reviews and getting some great feedback from some folks I know. My review: ★★★☆☆ …moderately satisfied. The seem like a “good enough” value (speaking to the quality-to-price ratio, here). PROS: The most comfortable in-ear headphones I’ve ever tried (and […]
Although I will argue that my judgment was impaired, A. talked me into creating a Facebook profile two nights ago. I don’t really remember the circumstances or her rationale. But she made an impassioned plea that on some level resonated with me, for better or worse. So there I am. Time will tell if this […]
Downloaded and installed Firefox 3 this morning 1; here are some first impressions from throughout my first day of use: Content rendering seems improved. Not sure if it actually is improved or not. Just feels that way 2. Noted that it seems to use the default OS X buttons for otherwise unstyled form buttons now. […]