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You know, it occurs to me that you could take "The first 30 years were just the beginning. Welcome to 2007." quite literally. Taken in such a plain light, Apple's recent little marketing stunt is nothing more than a statement of truth. But Apple knows - and Apple knows that you know - that that's […]

Photoshop CS3 beta can't resize images (yeah, that's what "interpolation on image resize is not working" means). And "pmTool" - the app run by Activity Monitor to update the info window - leaks like a sieve on Intel Macs. Since removing it from my dock, the morning routine of heavy disk thrashing for ten minutes […]

HandBrake ((Current version as of this post: 0.7.1.)) hasn't been updated in ten months ((February 23, 2006)). The blog and SVN repository haven't seen action since April. The original developer seems to have vanished, leaving a hole for others to attempt to fill. Is HandBrake dead? Copy-protected DVDs have begun to make their way onto […]

A release candidate software update to the HR20-700S DirecTV HD-DVR (version 0x108) enables, among other things, OTA programming access and "ViiV" capabilities. ViiV, of course, is Intel's little DRM-ish love-in, and as a Mac user - even one using Intel chips - I'm likely excluded. Currently, people with ViiV-enabled computers can view their photos and […]

"Regarding our iPhone" may be the single best thing Fake Steve has ever written. I realize this is the reverse of how most companies do it. Just about everybody else starts with the product, and only when it's done do they go, Oh, wait, we gotta come up with some sort of ad, don't we? […]

I'm posting this at the request of a friend. At the MacWorld Expo in January, Garmin announced they would be working on officially supporting Mac OS X 10.4 by the end of 2006. Eleven months later and Garmin has made no further comments regarding support for the Mac. Earlier this year, Garmin listed software engineer […]

AppleJack is now available for Intel Macs. I've never installed AppleJack on my own machines, and it came out shortly after I stopped working as a Mac Genius, so I never tested it there. I'm a little leery to install such a low-level tool, but it's been around for quite some ((Though, since this is […]

I opened Keychain Access a few days ago and was surprised that I had "875 items." Really? 875 items? Can't I get rid of some of these? So I sorted by "Date Modified" and deleted a few keychain items I hadn't used in years. I noticed, though, that these "old" items were interspersed with keychain […]

Occasionally, I'll download several movies from one location. I did so recently in grabbing a bunch of TextMate screencasts and a bunch of Wii videos from IGN's Wii site. Sometimes I'll keep a video, sometimes I'll throw it away when I'm done watching it. This process would be rather simple if the proxy icon in […]

Every so often, I read yet another comment on yet another blog about how TextMate is so great. So I download it again and launch it again. I configure some of the settings (hey, it has Preferences now!). I've done this a few times now (and a search for "TextMate" on this site will confirm […]

CSSEdit 2.0 was released yesterday and, though I was technically a beta tester, I didn't spend much time with the application, instead opting to edit my CSS files manually in BBEdit. I reasoned that I was too busy doing actual work to learn a new application. That was a mistake. Having spent a few hours […]

Wow. I didn't know that desktop icons could be captured with the spacebar trick after hitting cmd-shift-4. They're not only captured, they're captured with full transparency. That's pretty nifty! I found this information when reading about StyledWindow at bithaus. Then I used it to capture one of the icons on my desktop. I assure you […]

HandBrake rips DVDs on this dual 3GHz Mac Pro with 5 GB of RAM at about 83 frames per second. It will spike to 90 on occasion and dip to 75 or so, too. How's your rip speed? Update: Duh, yeah, formats help: FFmpeg encoder, 1 Mbps, MP4 video, AAC audio, 44.1 Hz and 128 […]

I'm not a perpetual Terminal user in that I don't always have a Terminal window open. Instead, I close them between tasks, forcing me to open new windows roughly 1200 times per day. 😛 The Terminal ships with a few default color schemes, like "Black on light yellow," and when I have more than one […]

iTunes 7.0.2 showed up in my Software Update as having the ability to use the second-generation Shuffle, so I installed it. Oddly, it then updated my iTunes Library. Odd. My daily listening includes a few video podcasts (namely Ze Frank's The Show), a few audio podcasts, and whatever's in my Shuffle Play. I almost always […]