June 2011
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The Rules →
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Jerry Brito: Top ten myths about introverts →
So accurate …
jerrybrito:
Myth #1 – Introverts don’t like to talk. This is not true. Introverts just don’t talk unless they have something to say. They hate small talk. Get an introvert talking about something they are interested in, and they won’t shut up for days.
Myth #2 – Introverts are shy. Shyness has nothing to…
October 2010
1 post
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Strongspace uploads and URL shorteners
Jeff Mancuso of Strongspace cleaned up some Brett Terpstra shell script fu for quick and dirty hosting and generating shortened URLs on the Strongspace Blog last week.
I’ve been using a similar (much nastier!) script for a few years now, I found it very convenient in training situations to drop files on Strongspace/Dropbox and hand out easy to write URLs to delegates. Seeing the cleaner...
July 2010
2 posts
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Sun Secure Global Desktop (SGD) v4.4/4.5 from an...
SSGD utilises X11 to enable the background connection and authentication. Since release 10.5 of OSX thru to the latest 10.6.4 there has been an issue with lack of keyboard input in the X11 authentication dialogs which X11 pops up.
This is due to a change in OSX X11 configuration and can be resolved by installing XQuartz (which is quite disruptive) or remaking a missing symlink from the current...
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OSX disk recovery
So, something is wreaking havoc on the stability of my OSX 10.6 installation, causing filesystem corruption, even though its a journaled filesystem. So, whilst I track down the culprit (leaning toward the Seagate Momentus 500Gb drive at the mo!), a few reminders of useful bits and pieces …
A USB recovery “disk”, via Disk Utility, insert your 10.6 install media, then restore...
June 2010
2 posts
Marco.org: iPhone multitasking and background... →
One of my most common feature requests is for Instapaper to periodically download articles in the background. A lot of people forget to launch the app to let it download content before going underground or boarding a plane. I’ve already received multiple emails from people who are excited for iOS…
Marco making perfect sense again …
SafariRestore by Russell Gray →
safariextensions:
Here’s an extension a lot of people have been waiting for: it automatically restores your previous browsing session.
At the moment, the MIME-type is set incorrectly on the extension itself; instead of clicking on it, right-click the link and choose “Save Linked File As…”, then double-click it in Finder (or in Explorer, for Windows users) to install it.
Few glitches with v1.0...
May 2010
2 posts
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Transferring Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) DRM'ed...
I’m posting this here so that I can find it in the future when I need it again and also so that hopefully Google will shorten the process for anyone that follows along after me down this weary path …
Players
Mac OSX 10.6.3
Apple iPad (running iPhoneOS 3.2)
Apple supplied (free) iBooks app
Adobe Digital Editions 1.7.2 for OSX
some DRM encumbered eBooks stored in ADE (these are either...
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MarsEdit v3.x
So MarsEdit v3.0 has made it out the door, quite the best blog editor I’ve yet come across, since its beginnings as an addendum to NetNewsWire and Brents re-homing and subsequent flourishing at RedSweater Software … look no further if OSX is your choice of platform.
Onward and iPad bound (I hope …), congratulations Daniel.
April 2010
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“If you look back on these stories even one week later, the majority of them seem...”
–
Marco.org - More ideas than time: Last week’s news
I’d so love for this to come to pass … this used to be the province of the good quality daily newspapers, but reporting in general is now so time-focussed and just regurgitates poor researched pieces of...
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“One melancholy thought occurs as my fingers glide and flow over the surface of...”
– Stephen Fry writing for Time Magazine
… if you’ve seen The Elements for iPad and you’re a DA fan then that will probably be the most poignant of references with regard to the iPad.
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“When I wrote about spatial thinking, I pointed out that the iPhone does a really...”
– by Lukas Mathis
… it does mean that there will be sufficient space in a landscape orientation to display “running” apps, listed in a somewhat dock style to the left/right side, though … roll on v4.0!
March 2010
4 posts
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NCP Car Parks ... and crap usability testing on...
I quite often fly out of UK airports, where a near monopoly in car parking on these sites is held by National Car Parks (NCP).
Given the high prices for parking, booking in advance is advisable (for reduced costs!) and on quite a few occasions due to changes in schedule or vehicle I’ve needed to revise my bookings …
… the fun begins …
NCP have what looks like quite...
“Our art is in making the abilities of our software accessible to those who do...”
– Engineer Thinking » Matt Legend Gemmell
Great, great writing by Matt again …
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Instapaper Blog: Scrollback →
Before Instapaper Pro 2.2, I got frequent emails from customers who were upset that they had inadvertently tapped the status bar, which scrolls to the top of the article and loses their position. I understood completely, since losing your read position is a form of minor data loss. Most of them…
Its this kind of attention to detail and reduction that makes OSX and iPhone apps of...
February 2010
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“If you have integrity, nothing else matters.
If you don’t have...”
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Insightful as ever
This is why DaringFireball is a must daily read, take an hour and watch Gruber expounding on the ten top issues that Apple faces, recorded at the recent MacWorld 2010.
I just wish you could clone him and churn out more high-quality articles on DF daily ;-)
The Gruber 10: Apple’s Top Issues
December 2009
2 posts
Testing
More tests …
November 2009
2 posts
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New iMac i7
So, a few little experiments with the latest 64bit version of HandBrake has given me a taste of how quick this latest iMac (i7@2.8Ghz) is going to be in daily use.
Eventually it’ll be tied up most of the time as a VMware/VBox server platform for all my Solaris/OpenSolaris/Linux images, but in the meantime …
HandBrake threading (based on FFmpeg) is quite even handed and even...
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Is this on ...
Just some quick testing from MarsEdit on my desktop
August 2009
1 post
July 2009
2 posts
Test from desktop
A little testing never hurt ...
Well, looks fine so far!