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decadence

08-Dec-08

Ah yes, living the decadent life! Right now I am reclining in bed, stuffed with Thai food, editing poetry– scratch that, attempting to edit poetry because I am on my 12″ PowerBook and it can barely load a webpage, let alone maneuver around word processing.  Open Mail.app and the spinning beach-ball of doom appears. This [...]

please do not explode

20-Apr-05

I didn’t think this day would ever come. Thanks to Mark/Space’s Missing Sync, my T-Mobile Sidekick II now syncs with my PowerBook’s iCal and Address Book. The timing on this is particularly excellent, as I spent an hour organizing my Hipster PDA last night, complete with index cards, colored labels and a pocket Moleskine memo-pockets [...]

zombiet00nz

22-Jun-04

For my fellow compulsive correctors of iTunes info: “This program takes songs that you’ve chosen in your iTunes Library, that have incorrect or missing information for Title, Artist or Album, and then uses the sound of each song to match it with the correct information maintained in the MusicBrainz Database.” The best part of this [...]

Security hole for OS X

20-May-04

If you are running Panther (OS X 10.3), read and follow these instructions right now. Apple will undoubtedly release an update for this eventually, but you should protect yourself in the interim. This Wired article has more information. Update! The brand-new Paranoid Android from the wondrous Unsanity is another option. From their website: “Note: Paranoid [...]

pure and simple every time

28-Sep-03

After several unsuccessful attempts with iChat AV and our iSights, FunkyPlaid and I got a full audio/video chat going. And damn, once we had iChat configured to use the iSight microphones and limited the bandwidth to 500 Kbps, the quality was excellent. If friendships had credits, ours would have to thank both LiveJournal and Apple.