Posted in Computing: Mac on February 25th, 2007 4 Comments »
What's your Mac OS X "Highlight Color"? Graphite Silver Blue Gold Red Orange Green Purple Other… View Results
And more importantly, what does our choice say about us?
Mine's currently set to purple, though in the past few months I've been changing it regularly. Blue or yellow are likely my all-time favorites.
Posted in Computing: Mac on February 20th, 2007 10 Comments »
Think Secret seems to believe that both Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Mac OS X 10.5 will ship in March. Me, I'm not so sure, and I think a lot of people will be incredibly disappointed if Mac OS X 10.5 doesn't have some massive UI overhaul. A March release would be a first, after all [...]
Posted in Computing: Mac on February 19th, 2007 7 Comments »
I've had a problem with the way Adium manages its log files for a long time, and I'm hoping that perhaps there's a solution. Essentially, despite the "aliases" offered by Adium, it still logs many of my conversations under the username.
For example, I have a buddy named "Ron" with both an AIM and a Google [...]
Posted in Computing: Mac on February 13th, 2007 1 Comment »
Two entries in my crontab look a little funny to some people:
0 7 * * * /Users/iacas/.script-morning.app
0 23 * * * /Users/iacas/.script-night.app
.script-night.app
tell application "System Events"
[...]
Posted in Computing: Mac on February 9th, 2007 4 Comments »
It's kind of obnoxious when half of .Mac (as far as I'm concerned - and syncing is the other half) doesn't work properly. This has been going on for a few days now.
Posted in Computing: Mac on February 8th, 2007 3 Comments »
For weeks, I've been bothered by the fact that QuickTime's full-screen controls don't appear when viewing content from the Radiant Vista's Daily Critique. The iPod Video versions of their files do, but not the QuickTime versions.
Turns out the reason behind this is the inclusion of a Flash track. Disabling the Flash track ("Show Movie Properties", [...]
Posted in Computing: Mac on February 7th, 2007 12 Comments »
I've done some testing AppleScripting Safari image downloads from a "members" site (a photography club). Images are always of the form http://server.com/[prefix]xx[suffix].png, with "xx" being a number like 01 or 43. Currently I have a script capable of loading all of the images:
I log in to the site and navigate to the images I want [...]
Posted in Computing: Mac on February 6th, 2007 7 Comments »
Some random thoughts on Jobs' open letter on DRM:
I don't think Apple is trying to become its own record label, despite what may or may not have recently happened with the Beatles.
The iPod is still the best player, and I think the iTunes Music store is a loss leader, so going DRM-free probably wouldn't really [...]
Posted in Computing: Mac on February 5th, 2007 2 Comments »
I often maintain a few Safari windows. One will have "general browsing" stuff - things I'll open for reading later. I call this my "miscellaneous" window. I'll also have a few project-specific windows open, each with a few tabs. I keep these minimized, as I only work in them from time to time.
I've found a [...]
Posted in Computing: Mac on January 25th, 2007 5 Comments »
You know what I'd like? AirTunes on my hip. I want a little player - iPod shuffle-sized if possible, but capable of showing up in iTunes as a destination to which music can be streamed. I'd pay a little bit extra to be able to control more than the volume on such a device as [...]
Posted in Computing: Mac on January 20th, 2007 3 Comments »
Why don't any news articles mention the Mac Pro when they're talking about the 802.11n capabilities for which Apple's going to charge $1.99? Example:
Apple on Thursday confirmed reports that it plans to charge customers a fee to download software that will enable the 802.11n capability in the Wi-Fi chips found in some MacBook and MacBook [...]
Posted in Computing: Mac on January 15th, 2007 12 Comments »
Here is a list of apps I'd like to see on an iPhone:
Terminal (like, duh!). Being able to SSH into my server would be awesome. Heck, I'd settel for a shell-looking SSH client.
Something to post to my blog (and not via the blog's Web interface - I know I could use Safari. I mean something [...]
Posted in Computing: Mac on January 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
1 + 2 = 6! Yes, in the RDF, even math is different.
Posted in Computing: Mac on January 9th, 2007 20 Comments »
I don't care about the Apple TV. I don't care about the iPhone because I can't get Cingular service in my area (and, from what I have heard, they suck lately anyway). And how does "approval takes two months" mean June anyway?
But mainly I'm deeply disapopinted that the iPhone is available only for Cingular. Apple [...]
Posted in Computing: Mac on January 9th, 2007 9 Comments »
This one is a simple poll, folks.
Was the MWSF 2K7 Keynote everything you thought it would be? Yes No View Results
No doubt as I have time to absorb it myself, I'll post more.