Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
Two things to say about WP-Footnotes: (1) I love this plug-in. Truth be told, I probably abuse it. The right answer would be to develop a better writing style and use the footnotes only where they’re really needed. The easy answer is: fuck that, I love my footnotes. (2) Could we have the “opening” and […]
My otherwise limitless love for Quicksilver has recently been tempered by a burgeoning love for the addition of Quick Look to Mac OS X in the 10.5 version. Pre-Quick Look, Quicksilver was hands-down the fastest way to access and open files. ⌘+Space → type a few characters → and you were on your way. In some instances you still […]
Already “link-dumped” on July 28th but 1… Here are the detailed notes: it would seem that as of today (July 28th) Google has added CalDAV support to their online calendar 2! The short version of what this means? Now you can get “native” reciprocal syncing between your Mac’s iCal and your gCal 3. “Just follow these […]
Taking the Aperture plunge… After about four years and approximately nine thousand digital images collected, processed, managed, and shared via iPhoto, we’ve more/less out-grown it around this house. Yes: this coincides in large part with the DSLR upgrade and the desire to shoot RAW but iPhoto just didn’t seem to be cutting it for us. […]
Well, gentle readers, yesterday I wrapped up the hemming and hawing and took the DSLR plunge. Motivated in part by the impending baby and in part by a good Memorial Day Sale deal, I picked up a Canon XTi. A. & I ventured out yesterday to hit a couple of stores and try our luck […]
A few thoughts on Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) after having spent a solid week using it: Spaces. I didn’t think that I was going to use this at all but it turns out that it’s a great alternative to minimizing certain windows. Example: during the day I typically run all the apps I need and […]
The DSLR hunt continues. As I mentioned last hit around, I continue to digest all of this. It feels like a big move. And while it’s not like a house- or car-level Big Purchase, it’s certainly a large wad of cash than I like to drop outside of true necessity. Thus do I continue to […]
Over the past couple weeks and months 1 I have reached that stage and am now laboring over the decision to upgrade to a DSLR camera. It’s mostly (as a I admitted to one friend) “lens lust” but there’s also an amateur artistic element to it. I’m looking for some more control over the pictures (i.e., […]
For about the past month, I have been trying out the public beta of Cultured Code’s Things. Things is a “GTD-style” task management application with a clean UI and some nice, convenient features. While I am not really an adherent to GTD philosophy credited to David Allen, the truth is that a decent task management […]