Thoughts on the iPad
Apple released the iPad last week as many of you well know. I had little interest in the device, but still see some great potential in the world of tablet computing. After all I’ve seen and read, I feel the device, where it stands, is a great tool for someone like my parents but nothing [...]
Previewing FLVs on a Mac using Quicktime and Mac OS X 10.5′s Quick Look Feature
If you’re looking to get FLVs to playback in Quicktime I believe your best route is Perian. It installs a preference pane in your System Preferences. It’s simple to install and update. Another great thing about installing Perian is you can convert FLVs to other formats using Quicktime Pro. Also if you want to quickly [...]
Sync your Mac Address Book With Gmail Contacts
So I found a little treat with the 10.5.3 update I just did from my hotel room in South Dakota. You can now sync your gmail address book with your mac! Amazing. Such a nice treat on our journey out to Seattle. You can read more here: tuaw.com.
Print CD Inserts with iTunes
So I know there may be some iTunes hatters out there, but I just discovered a useful thing with iTunes. I’ve used iTunes for many years now, but never noticed this feature. Maybe this is a new feature? You can actually print out different templates for jewel cases based on album artwork and track listings. iTunes automatically [...]
RadTech ProCable iPhone Headset Review
After seeing the ProCable headphones for the iPhone on TUAW.com, I decided to buy a pair for the low price of $24.95. I wasn’t expecting much, but I was hoping for the best. I also used the promo code to purchase them, which brought them down in price even more (RTPROMO1). I received the headphone today. The [...]
Lacie 2big triple 1 TB Enternal Hard Drive Un-boxing
I finally bought the hard drive I’ve been waiting for over the past 2 months. I’m really excited I finally have the drive and can faithfully know my data is being written across two hot swappable drives. The drive runs several different RAID modes, but the one I fancy is the RAID 1 (safe 100). [...]
Writing first blog entry from my iPhone
I finally decided to drop sprint after 5 long years. After my contract expired in october I’ve had nothing but problems with sprint. In August they messed up my plan on my treo 700p and began charging me around 60 dollars a month. After numerous 45 min phone calls with customer service, I decided I’ve [...]
Safari has a very useful hidden debug menu.
Today, a coworker pointed out to me a feature he discovered in Apple Safari after doing a search for a random error code while writing an Ajax script for Chefmd.com. This is a very useful feature of safari that I’m surprised they don’t allow you to activate just in your preferences. To activate this hidden [...]
MAMP… is it a disease?
I just started using MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP) today at work.. amazing. Simple to install and easy to use. I strongly suggest anyone who codes with PHP and MySQL to use this program. I haven’t ever wanted to turn my computer into a web server by installing PHP and MySQL with the fear [...]
Font Manager
I finally found something that works, and it’s free. I’ve heard several people from some user groups I go to speak of Linotype FontExplorerX. I never even thought to bother and just continued to struggle with font book and system fonts. My applications would take forever to load, but I just went right along. I [...]