Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
Interesting(?) piece from creativebits presenting the “Desk” concept as a replacement for/amalgamation of the Finder & Desktop concepts. The problems I had with it are that it’s not readily apparent “out-of-the-box” what it is or what it’s for. First I just eyed the graphic like “WTF is this?” Then I watched the video. And I […]
Get started w/ launchd rather than cron Malkovich to death… Figure out some other way to automate exports from iCal to phpCal since there more/less isn’t an ics file to copy w/ a shell script any more and AppleScript support for iCal’s export feature is confusing and weak at best… currently playing: Amon Tobin “Reanimator”
UPDATE on yesterday’s post. The compiled notes: …not sure how it started but: published a poster-size thumbnail set to PDF – – and iPhoto went “pinwheel” – – and then when I tried to Cmd+Option+Esc my way out of it, Finder pinwheeled as well; Malkovich went totally unresponsive so I did a hard reboot w/ […]
Extra time taken today, consumed by some inexplicable OS X nastiness. Tried “print to PDF” from iPhoto and next thing I knew the system was good as frozen. A hard reboot later and it’s two hours of troubleshooting and assorted diagnostics to culminate in an OS reinstall. Ugh.
TUAW is one among others that has turned its RSS feed into a Dashboard widget. yawn! Get an aggregator, people! And wake me when it’s over. currently playing: Luomo “Synkro”
Does anyone else find it mildly ironic that Apple – – a company practically synonymous with the GUI and “human-centered design” – – can’t seem to get it right when it comes to the mouse? Mossberg’s take on the “Mighty Mouse” gets boiled down to: So, stop the presses: Microsoft has beaten Apple on hardware […]
A friend of mine mentioned recently he’s considering an iPod mini but asked: “How do you pick what to put on there?” The obvious point being: Clearly, you have more than 4 GB of music…. So I decided to share with him how I keep my tunes fresh: Sync the following playlists: This Is Rabbit’s […]
A and I got our kayaks out on the water again (so soon!) today. This time the destination was Wrightsville Reservoir: A bit closer than our last trip and a bit more paddle friendly. (Though perhaps ironically we found the directions for it on a website devoted to area waterskiers.) Follow up Dr’s appointment yesterday […]
Sampo follows up on the Dvorak vs. Creative Commons thing by referencing the Slashdot thread on the subject. One thing that I noticed keeps poking its head in a rather unfortunate way: Creative Commons licenses provide an accessible, relatively easy way for folks to publish content “with strings attached” but without worrying about having their […]
Via Slashdot: Dvorak trashes Creative Commons… There are several things that bother me about this initiative. First, Creative Commons is similar to a license. You sign up with the group and post a message saying that your material is protected or covered by Creative Commons. This means that others have certain rights to reuse the […]