Posted in Computing: General on June 20th, 2008 5 Comments »
What's up with btinternet.com customers never getting the same darn IP address. Sure makes it tough to ban the occasional idiot in a forum without banning half of the rest of the UK.
Here in the U.S., most people with DSL and cable seem to get the same IP address. Unless they're offline for a week [...]
"rediculous" is not a word. Not in the English language, anyway.
What I wouldn't give to have every browser put red dotted lines under mis-spelled words like Safari does, along with people who care enough to pay attention to them.
/me installs. And I think that's about all I can say about that.
Update: Can I say it's nice? And fast? And 1Password is already updated to work with it?
The lack of iTunes+ songs in addition to Amazon's somewhat more flexible pricing (sometimes cheaper, almost never more expensive) hurts. Unfortunately, so too does the AmazonMP3.com buying experience.
I recently checked out a few songs from American Top 40 and built a chart comparing the two services. Of the songs I wanted that were available, it [...]
My partner in the Golf Talk Podcast uses a Windows machine. He has a Samson USB condenser mic, and just recently we've decided to try recording both sides of the conversation.
I use Audio Hijack Pro to record both sides, currently, and would likely continue to use that same setup to record my side, but we [...]
Why can't Safari's "undo" undo closing a tab? Just open the tab back up, scroll back to where I was, and let me forget that I finger-twitched on command-w a bit too quickly.
Gah!
A user on The Sand Trap forum linked to his online Scorecards at this URL: http://home.comcast.net/~2624/.
The URL works fine in OmniWeb, iCab, Firefox, and even Internet Explorer for the Mac, yet Safari (and any WebKit-based browser) shows a 404.
Changing the user agent in Safari doesn't fix anything, either.
What gives?
P.S. I've yet to fire up Parallels [...]
Posted in Computing: General on April 9th, 2008 5 Comments »
I've ordered two 2 GB sticks of RAM from RAMJet for the MacBook Pro. This means I'll have two 1 GB sticks available. If anyone wants them, and can offer a token (shipping plus a few bucks), they're yours. I have no use for them.
The RAM will work in MacBooks, Mac Minis, and MacBook Pros.
My [...]
Posted in Computing: General on April 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
When was the last really good Internet April Fool's joke? Because I can't remember one. Heck, Bare Bones' hardware for faster text processing stands out in my mind as one of the funniest simply because it was rather unexpected.
Posted in Computing: General on March 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
Aperture 2.1 was released with a sample plugin. I guess that may partly answer this question. I haven't checked yet, but I believe the plugin architecture is still not non-destructive.
WordPress 2.5 was released. I'll be installing this very soon here on this blog, then on The Sand Trap, and then on some others.
Cyndicate 1.2 will [...]
Posted in Computing: General on March 4th, 2008 8 Comments »
I received my 1 TB Time Capsule today and, pursuant to the comments on my earlier entry, I'm hoping to get some help in setting up my new network.
For the past several years I've run an 802.11g network named "Netski." I have a domed AirPort Express ("Dome") that has served as a printer share point [...]
Posted in Computing: General on February 19th, 2008 12 Comments »
If you use a mouse, do you use a mousepad? Yes No I use a trackpad/trackball and can't really answer. View Results
I haven't used a mousepad since… my first laser optical mouse in… 1999? 2000?
Posted in Computing: General on February 16th, 2008 4 Comments »
Occasionally, syncing contacts on my iPhone takes minutes. Like 5-10. Other times, it takes 30 seconds.
I sync with .Mac and Entourage (just the contacts), but I don't think those matter. The .Mac syncing is always on, and disabling the Entourage syncing doesn't magically speed things up.
FWIW, I have only 54 contacts in my "iPhone" group [...]
Posted in Computing: General on February 6th, 2008 1 Comment »
Yawn.
Perhaps I'll have Aperture 2.0 and new MacBook Pros for my birthday (March 23)… dare to dream?
Posted in Computing: General on February 4th, 2008 7 Comments »
I'm used to, on my Mac, queuing up commands when I know a dialog will appear. For example, I'll hit a keystroke that requires confirmation and hit the "enter" key very quickly.
In Windows, lately, I've been hitting the delete key to move a file to whatever the Trash in XP is called and hitting "enter" [...]