Where to Find Technical Books in the GTA?

Posted by Site Admin on 29th Nov 2010 in Rants | 0 comments I figured it was time to learn AppleScript, for real. Between the use of Automator and Noodlesoft’s Hazel I’ve been able to automate many tasks on my Mac (like making automatic redundant copies of media files across external hard drives) but there are inherent limitations in both those tools. AppleScript, on the other hand, has been the long-time fully-functional scripting solution on the OS X platform (disregarding, of course, command-line scripting languages like Ruby). For some reason, though, I’ve found that the online AppleScript documentation has never been that...

The Fine Line Between Content and Code — A Blogging Platform

Posted by Site Admin on 29th Sep 2010 in Administrivia, Blogging, Rants | 0 comments Yesterday I decided that my blog was looking kind of…, well, dull. And a bit of a pain to manage too. Let me explain. Years ago I used WordPress to do my blogging. It seemed relatively straightforward to install on my web server, allowed for easy creation of posts both through its built-in Dashboard and via third party applications (like MarsEdit… which at the time had limited WordPress support). But the look and feel of the end site left a lot to be desired. So I turned to the tool that the rest of my sites are created with, RapidWeaver. RapidWeaver is great for generating nice looking...

Want: Twitter Sync

Posted by Site Admin on 14th Sep 2010 in Rants | 0 comments Why is this so hard? As someone who is fairly typical of users these days — sometimes at home, sometimes at work, sometimes using transit, or just bored somewhere waiting for something / someone — I like to check up on Twitter when time permits. Since there is almost always either a Mac or an iDevice nearby (washroom trips anyone?) getting access to it should be no problem. Unless of course you don’t like re-reading the same stuff… which is a distinct possibility if you are following a lot of people and / or lists. The problem is that there doesn’t seem to be a consistent,...

iMac i7 – 50 lbs of Macintosh Beast

Posted by Site Admin on 11th Aug 2010 in Cool Stuff | 0 comments Well, I finally took the plunge. My 2006 20″ iMac was finally starting to show its age. One day it dawned on me that I had the slowest computer in the house, with my wife and older son both enjoying relatively new MacBooks and my younger son still playing on a one-year old PC (heresy, I know). But the machine I was trying to do all of my work on just crawled along, getting stuff done but never quickly enough. This has been going on for a while, mind you… and typically when things start to fill up or slow down we tend to employ band-aids to help things last a little longer. Running slowly?...

iOS 4 is Here — Almost Smooth Sailing

Posted by Site Admin on 23rd Jun 2010 in Cool Stuff | 0 comments As of this past Monday, Apple’s latest incarnation of its iPhone OS was released to the public. Now rebranded “iOS”, with this version specifically called “iOS 4″, there are a lot of features available to the later model iPhone and iPod touch models. It seems a little weird that Apple would release the latest and greatest version of its OS before the practically-here iPhone 4s come out… maybe they are hoping that the large installed based of 3GS users will find the significant issues with the the OS (and with iTunes 9.2, which is required for the installation of iOS...

Dodo Case

Posted by Site Admin on 4th May 2010 in Cool Stuff | 0 comments Quick update: I just ordered one of these… Guess this just means I have to buy an iPad now… - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone