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 […]
Hey… Isn’t this article about John…?: When my eldest was five, we bought him an old Mac Classic to learn keyboarding and mouse skills. One day I noticed he seemed to be using the mouse wrong. On closer inspection I found he was using it upside down! He’d turned it 180 degrees, so when he […]
In addition to today’s one and two other posts, I’ve crapped my brain in to this one… I was super stoked earlier today to discover that A’s surprise for me came in and I snatched it up. (How I have missed this disc!) Other than that: Shit is hitting the fan left and right. It’s […]
With a little help I made my first Dashboard Widget: the Oblique Strategies widget This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. For those unfamiliar with the Oblique Strategies, may I recommend Gregory Taylor’s site on the subject. Short version? Musician Brian Eno and artist Peter Schmidt, faced with the “creator’s block” […]
No sooner do I get Malkovich set up than Apple makes the announcement at WWDC ’05. har har har The comment thread on Engadget’s livecast was worth a good gander. The same mix of uninformed knee-jerk reactions and “oh yeah!” insightfulness one would expect from that crowd. But the two most interesting [p]reactions were on […]
And just as mysteriously as my synctunes scripts appeared to stop working, they appeared to start working as expected. Keeping an eye on these though since I’m not so sure I trust their reliability at this point. Questions: Are both the LoginHook and the LogoutHook working? Is it successfully updating the play counts (etc.) on […]
NCAA Lax Tournament ’05 was awesome — been a long time, I’d almost forgotten. Return from vacation to work overload. So be it. Thanks to Voodoo Pad I had the most productive 90 minutes of novel brainstorming ever. My story makes sense to me now. When it comes to downloading patches, make sure to read […]
Submitted for scrutiny (esp. since it doesn’t appear to be working…): synctunesin.sh gets the latest iTunes Library info from the iTunes User account #!/bin/bash TUNESHARE=/Users/itunes/Music/iTunes AMYLIB=/Users/amy/Music/iTunes GUESTLIB=/Users/guest/Music/iTunes ROBLIB=/Users/rob/Music/iTunes if [ $USER != itunes ]; then if [ $TUNESHARE/iTunes\ 4\ Music\ Library -nt $AMYLIB/iTunes\ 4\ Music\ Library ]; then cp $TUNESHARE/iTunes\ 4\ Music\ Library $AMYLIB/iTunes\ 4\ […]