Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
Seriously, why aren’t we using secure email? Interesting /. slug on getting an African-language Wikipedia(s) up and running. “What use is an encyclopedia when literacy rates among a language’s speakers approach zero?” Flickr appears to have streamlined geo-tagging. w00t! Also: Croque-monsier? Look delicious! currently playing: Blonde Redhead “Elephant Woman”
VoodooPad is up to 3.0. Still undecided it I’m going to upgrade just yet. There are now 3 tiers of the application and I’d lose the encryption unless I went “Pro” but man a tabbed interface and that PDF service are pretty sick looking… And man (OH MAN!) does that “linkback” feature tickle me in […]
I love my “Services” menu… Can I get that in a right-click contextual menu, please? Anyone know a good plug-in/micro-app for that?
Just realized that today is the expiration date on KetelOne’s AppleCare agreement. That marks three years with that machine. Seems like twice as many years. Or maybe I’ve just managed to cram six years of (ab)use into three. Anyhoo… Glad we snuck in under the radar and fit in one last repair this week. (Silly […]
43 Folders on “12 ways to better sleep” – – almost all of these are things I’d discussed with my doctor last year when I had my last really serious insomnia bout. I’m right there with him on the melatonin, too. That always helps but I’ve heard you’ll want to be cautious with your long-term […]
From the “Wow, why didn’t I think of that?” department: The Tao of Mac explains “Yaki” (the “anti-wiki”): …the content store is a folder tree. Each Wiki node is represented my a folder containing a plain UTF-8 text file, with metadata in a pseudo-RFC:2822 format: […] I chose this approach because the file format is […]
The Indexed Phobia List confirms that “ambulo” and “thanato” are good roots to use in my zombie-phobia neologism. (And Dictionary.com confirms that “ambulo” is the preferred prefix in the phobia realm for “walking”.) Little piece off bit-tech.net on “Why Web 2.0 will end your privacy” (at least, your privacy as you know it … spime-watch […]
Why I simultaneously love and hate web developers (via Musings from Mars » All The Lovely Browsers!): Regardless of why it’s favored, developers need to understand that when they fail to include Safari in their compatibility testing, they are basically thumbing their nose at Mac users. In my world, that’s not just a nasty thing […]
Via Macworld: Porn industry may be decider in Blu-ray, HD-DVD battle: The pornography industry, which generates an estimated US$57 billion in annual revenue worldwide, has always been a fast leader when it comes to the use of new technology, according to analysts. Porn studio Digital Playground, which claims to have produced the largest number of […]
Apple Mail got you down? Hitting command+Q to quit and it hangs out there waiting for you to Force Quit? Chances are it’s busy caching. Don’t hold it against Mail, it thinks it’s doing you a favor. Just go into the Activity Viewer (command+0) and stop every instance of activity. It’ll behave a bit better […]