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iTunes 10 breaks add as spoken track (1 Comments)

John — 2010-12-25T16:11:10-08:00

It appears that iTunes 10 has broken one of my favorite Mac features: "Add to iTunes as a spoken track". This kills an important part of my productivity work flow. I have verified this on two Macs running 10.6 and... ]]> John commented: They fixed this in the latest point release. I'm back in business.

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Project Offset Acquired (2 Comments)

2010-12-19T20:54:38-08:00

Another one bites the dust: Intel acquires Project Offset. Some rationale here. I don't think that it's a good thing to have the gaming world reduced to a few massive developers. I'd much prefer to see all kinds of little... ]]> J commented: Interesting followup. Large companies just can't manage products. Which is funny, since they're so in to process and product management.

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AT&T Data Plans and Tethering (1 Comments)

John — 2010-06-19T02:52:00-08:00

AT&T offered tethering plans for most of it's smart phones, excluding iPhone for some reason, for around another 30.00 a month. People complained that it wasn't fair to charge you more money just to access the data you already purchased from another device. The example of your home internet was used. You pay for the pipe to your house, and you can hang as many devices on it as you want. ]]> John commented: AT&T's micro cell pricing / billing is so absurd it is laughable. I guess it makes sense to count data used over your own broadband against your 3G usage cap??!!
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Tries-Fails-To-Justify-3G-CapEating-Microcell-108967

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Nerd Power Ups (21 Comments)

2010-04-09T18:39:24-08:00

Even though I've been using computers for longer than I haven't, there are always shortcuts and cool, but unknown features, in the ever increasing amount of software that I come to depend on. Here are some of the tips... ]]> J commented: To view the current built-in defines for gcc, either of the following (obfuscated) lines works:
gcc -dM -E -x c -
:| gcc -dM -E -x c -
Also you can get defines for a specific architecture, for example:
:| gcc -arch ppc -dM -E -x c -

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Adding custom key bindings to Xcode (8 Comments)

Anthony McCormick — 2010-02-03T15:57:08-08:00

If you don't already have a custom Key Binding Set then this gives good info: http://www.typeoneerror.com/custom-key-bindings-in-xcode-for-textmate-users/ And this is a reference of commands and keys. http://www.erasetotheleft.com/post/mac-os-x-key-bindings/#comment-101 If you DO have a customer key binding set already like I do, then... ]]> Anthony McCormick commented: I have create some common eclipse shortcuts at the following post
http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2010/02/03/custom-xcode-shortcuts/

Most notably to copy selected text up or down one thing i rely on in Eclipse

^~\U700

copy:
moveUp:
moveToEndOfLine:
insertLineBreak:
insertNewLine:
setMark:
paste:
selectToMark:

^~\U701

copy:
moveDown:
moveToBeginningOfLine:
insertLineBreak:
insertNewLine:
moveUp:
setMark:
paste:
selectToMark:

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Apple Tablet This Week? (8 Comments)

FredB — 2010-01-29T11:10:25-08:00

Ok, the count down is on. Time to make your predictions. Let's see who can get the closest to the actual thing. This time around I'm trying to restrict my predictions to what I think it will have rather than... ]]> FredB commented: If I can vpn, remote desktop and use a keyboard and mouse, then I'm in. This would adequately replace my uses for a netbook. The missing camera is a bummer. And would at least one usb port really kill them? I guess an adapter is possible to connect thru the bottom, but if we're talking mobile here then why force users to have more dongles and adapters? I'm still uncomfortable with the size. Seems a tad too big, unless I go everywhere with a messenger bag, no doubt sold by Apple as well.

And if you could put 25 cents in the side and eject a tampon out the bottom, that would be cool too.

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Phone (2 Comments)

John — 2010-01-06T00:08:25-08:00

How many people still have a land line, and why? I've been completely cell phone based since March 2004. It feels weird to agree with luddites AT&T that forcing them to maintain the land line infrastructure with ever decreasing margins... ]]> John commented: I also still have one. I have more family members than cell phones.

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Keep up with your reading using free tools (1 Comments)

2010-01-03T00:53:41-08:00

These days there's far too much to read and not enough time to read it. I'll show you a couple ways to keep up with your reading using some free tools that are readily available. ]]> J commented: "You keep going on like this and by the end of the day you have 20 tabs open." MADNESS! Who would do such a thing?

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SSD (yay or nay)? (2 Comments)

2009-11-03T17:19:27-08:00

If you were to build a new PC today, what storage set up would you use? I'm thinking that the primary disk would have to be SSD for the start up and application launch performance. I wonder if a secondary... ]]> J commented: The SSD I was looking at was for the express card slot, so that won't help people with newer Pros.

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Apple Netbook This Fall? (8 Comments)

Paul — 2009-09-29T00:54:42-08:00

There have been some rumors lately about Apple releasing a netbook. This would be an interesting device, if they did it, and I wonder what model they'd use for software? Would all Mac OS X applications just run, or would... ]]> Paul commented: Find a way to deny this, haters.

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Suspend Firefox (10 Comments)

owen — 2009-08-24T19:14:16-08:00

Firefox 3.5 does a bit better on memory usage with a lot of (50+) tabs. Still, the various Javascripts, Java and Flash animations all use CPU, and Firefox for me typically runs at 20% CPU or so on my Macbook... ]]> owen commented: I like this idea of killall!

I use xmonad on linux. Would be nice if there is a way to automatically call killall when firefox window lose/gain focus. Anyone?

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The case against Apple (3 Comments)

John — 2009-08-22T03:01:19-08:00

The Case Against Apple-in Five Parts The article is pretty good, but I really got a kick out of the comments. I found this one part way down: If Microsoft managed the Windows PC world the way Apple manages the... ]]> John commented: Yeah, Apple is pretty full of crap on this one. Not too many people are going to buy that story. I'm guessing the app will be released in a couple of weeks. -Oops 'our bad'.

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Woodland Park Zoo (3 Comments)

John — 2009-08-07T13:32:16-08:00

]]> ]]> John commented: Welcome Aponi from Namibia!

While I appreciate your enthusiasm for "Brick furniture store", let me direct you to the rules of our sport which are conveniently listed below. Specifically the part about the 'nofollow tag' and 'spam URLs' being deleted.

Here is a rough translation in Afrikaans on the off chance that you are also fluent in that language. I apologize that I could not find an online translator for Oshiwambo.

alle skakels sal wees gemerk met die nofollow etiket, maak hulle onbruikbaar vir soek plasings. enige pos bevattende spam urls sal dan uitgevee wees. ...

Or in other words:
nie insleutel crap op ons werf. ...

Donut poll (9 Comments)

Mark — 2009-08-06T14:53:04-08:00

Tim Horton's, Country Style or Robin's?... ]]> Mark commented: FredB, sacrilege!

Round Rock Doughnuts for the Texas sized 16" masterpiece

Top Pot if I'm without my leer jet.

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traceroute + ping = mtr (2 Comments)

John — 2009-08-05T23:23:16-08:00

Matt at Twitter turned me on to using mtr. It's a mix of traceroute and ping, and produces a nice little list of where your packets are going. The source tarball of mtr compiles fine on Mac OS X with... ]]> John commented: I've never heard of MTR. It looks cool I'll have to try it out.

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