Very quick email I just sent to an acquaintance in Montreal who was asking if he should get an iPhone and have it unlocked. I know a bit about it so... So basically here's the deal: the iPhone is not...
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iCal insecure
The above was presented to me as I tried entering the URL of an iCal calendar syndicated from a secure webserver, i.e. https:// It seems to me that calendars (hello? personal?) are one thing that is a no-brainer shoe-in...
Bangla
If you ever need the Bangla keyboard mappings and some fonts for Mac OS X, Apple conveniently links to them. Be prepared though... It's like being there!!! ;) Oops, you'll need some fonts with that. Thank you come again. Why...
Recovery
Sadly, no, Shawna's MacBook hasn't been recovered, but Ken left a recommendation for a piece of software called "Undercover" by orbicule. Reading their "typical recovery story" is a pretty compelling sales pitch... I remember hearing abut this when it first...
D.O.A.
Not Dead, Defective. So it's not the Hard Drive, but rather, it seems, the right fan is misaligned. According to the technician at the Apple Certified place I went, usually the cause of such misalignment is sudden impact; someone dropped...
Ça commence bien...
("It starts well...") Just took delivery on a brand new MacBook Pro. The only customized part was the 160Gig Hard Drive. Unpacked, let the battery charge up to full. Press the power button and ... ROOOAAARRRRRRrrrrrrrr... Nice, the Hard Drive...
Cooler
Initial reports are in: the new "Core 2 Dual" MacBook Pros are significantly cooler (temperature wise, wiseguy), quieter and faster. Also interesting tidbit that makes sense to me: the lower RPM/higher density hard drives that ship in this batch...
Work much?
This is what my "Virtual Desktop" pager looks like right now, a more or less busy average Sunday night. That's 3 separate "jobs" open concurrently AND taking care of a task for someone who just pinged me in IM. Normally...
They lined up in Laval
People lined up in Laval for the opening of the new "Montreal" Apple Store. (I didn't go. See previous entry. ;)...
Buy movies...
Ok here we go. Amazon just unveiled "Amazon Unbox", their movie and TV show purchasing & download store. Apple is rumored (damn near confirmed) to release their movie download service next week as well, however with fewer studios signed up...
Other long tails I'd like to see
I would love to see stats on requested engravings on Apple iPods. Surely there are all kinds of "customizations" that are requested over and over and over... I'd also like to see how unique a request of "Defective by design"...
Read but present in Smart Mailbox count
I would really love an option for Smart Mailboxes in Apple's Mail.app to display a count. In the above mockup, the dark dot with the white number in it is the existing functionality of unread count. I have Smart...
Granular email search in Mail.app
Everytime I poke around with Spotlight stuff I am struck by how breathlessly powerful it is and also.. how breathlessly poor it's integration is the various Mac apps, be it the Finder or, in this case, Mail.app. So, Apple Mail.app...
No joke
So when 5 days after April fools and it's own 30th anniversary, Apple announces it will allow Windows XP to run on it's new Intel based machines, I thought "yeah right! best April Fools' joke evar!" But when you consider...
What a relief
Joi's new MacBook Pro arrived at the lab sometime this weekend and this afternoon I got permission to crack it open and play... I mean... test. :D Plugged it in, connected the 24" LCD screen, my Firewire drive, loaded up...
Rearranging
I'm in a "everything's new again!" state of mind tonight... So this is what my email/calendar desktop looks like. I run virtual desktops (see the strip on the bottom right? on a work day all of those boxes are...
endo
Adriaan quietly announced his new desktop aggregator application for Mac, called "endo". It's a quite novel approach to aggregation, UI wise. Lots of powerful "Smart Filtering" possibilities, and customization. Wicked fast, Universal build (for PPC and Intel Macs) and...
Apple Mail and iCal plugin ideas, and more on The Binder
So I've been using Scott's excellent MailTags Mail plugin for a few weeks (the beta I am using should be released this week!) and it's gotten me thinking more than usual about mail and file management etc. Here are a...
The Mac OS Binder
Not Finder, Binder. Simple app, basic UI on top of a database and a few APIs. Allow me to manage all my tags, local and remote. Remote tags could be stored locally for apps like ecto, 1001, Cocoalicious; local tags...
MailTags + Apple Mail + iCal
What you are looking at is a dream come true. It is not released yet but version 1.2 of Scott's "MailTags", whose Mail tagging feature set alone was worth a donation now ties Apple Mail to iCal as well....
I have no mouse, and I must scream
(with apologies to Harlan Ellison) My mouse died this week and it is causing me no end of distress. I am back to using the Apple "Pro" mouse, that pretty but useless transparent single-button-no-scroll-wheel piece of garbage. I tried using...
No luck
Yup. Again. The above is a graph of the temperature monitors (thermometers) in my new PowerBook. Obviously, something is totally out of whack. My Graphics Processor is no where near 100°C, and it's hardly possible for its, nor the...
Stickers? Pshaw!
Laser etched Powerbook! /me strokes chin thinking of his new PowerBook which should arrive next week... ;) via Patrick...
Aperture
(This screen cap is from a demonstration of Keyword Hierarchies - a.k.a Tag Bundles, label pools, etc - and how you can apply selected keywords to multiple images at once. It also shows a surfer in a meta-hoola-skirt, surfing...
My black iPod nano for sale
Yup. One month old black 4Gig iPod nano. Perfect working condition, all original packaging included. Reasonable offers welcome. (To keep in mind: I paid $300.00 CND + tax, only 4 weeks ago) I'm gonna hold out for someone local who...
WOah
This may be old news but it's new to me; as Francis says, No joke. WebObjects is included with Tiger. For free. Amazing. While this *is* cool, it's sad too. Nevermind that the learning curve is high, it goes up...
Apple Podcasts
I wonder if the next OS X "Security Update" will include an updated spellchecker which will recognize the word "Podcast", seeing how Apple now pretty much 0wnZ it... ;) Hrm... lemme spark up GarageBand here and......
It is done
"transition isn't going to be overnight, this time next year plan is to ship Macs with intel processors, complete transition by end of 2006." Every release of OS has been compiled for intel x86 for the last 5 years -...
Tiger annoyances
Ok so I've been running Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" for a bit over a week now. Generally, it is smooth, and actually does feel quicker (apparently due to a once again totally revamped GUI rendering process). While I haven't...
Trackpad scrolling
Incredibly useful System Pref, iScroll2 enables trackpad scrolling in pre-2005 Powerbooks and iBooks. I just installed the most recent version (I had been running an old version which was less than fantastic), under Tiger, and it makes me very happy....
Graphical Command Line, precursory
I've been composing a post about "Graphical Command Line" interfaces, which what alot of "AJAX" enabled features on websites are, and what Quicksilver, a Mac application, is... but it's getting so long and involved and I just don't have the...
Firefox behavioral mystery solved
So, I had mentioned a while back that I was seemingly unable to get Firefox to run on my system. I had tried everything and basically given up. Then, "miraculously", one day, it worked. Now, I haven't switched from Saf...
Into the wild
Adriaan, the erstwhile developer of such sweet apps as ecto and 1001, today has released two of his little Perl scripts for Movable Type: the Technorati Plugin and the last.fm script. Both of these have been running, beautifully, on Joi's...
Message in a bottle
For some unknown reason, my system is hosed. I am going to go eat, come back and reinstall the OS. JUST what I needed. REALLY....
Firepoop
I can't seem to get Firefox to work on my machine. Immediately after launch, the only item in the top Menu is "Firefox" (no "File, Edit etc...") and essentially the keyboard is disabled (I can't type a URL into the...
Snapshot
"When things line up" - Boris Anthony Pixels on pixels, Computer screenshot Oct.2004 $5500.00 ;)...
Olympus iPod competition
I don't particularily care but thought I'd scoop this little item I found on a french gadget website out of Tokyo: Akihabara News : toutes les nouveautés High-Tech du pays des Sushis: Alors l√†, ils m'ont entendu ... la VACHE Olympus nous sort des produits de fou avec un design de feu, commen√ßons par le : MR-500i Qui n'est pas moins qu'un APN/iPOD/PMP de 20 Go avec un écran VGA de 3.7" et un APN de 1.2Mpix ...
Like they heard my prayers
daikini released "Photon" the other day. Not a week ago I was hunting around and trying various tools that would allow me to easily create photo galleries in Movable Type, in my inimitable picky style.
iPod replacement battery
My 2nd generation iPod, which I bought back in November 2002, had become essentially unworthy of it's carrying weight. The battery, freshly charged would run out in under two hours. On my last trip to Tokyo I ended up not...
KeyCaps found!
Mac OS used to have this nifty utility app called "Key Caps". It would display a keyboard on your screen which would allow you to see the keyboard mappings for all the characters of any fonts you had installed....
Doctor's appointment
Taking a computer in for repair, especially a PERSONAL computer, should be like going to your GP, family doctor, dentist or vet. Why can I not call up my local mac shop, tell em what's wrong, make an appointment, show...
Busy busy
I use the excellent Codetek VirtualDesktop Pro. Without it I think I'd have gone totally insane ages ago. Some days, however, I think it contributes to my encroaching insanity. Nobody should have this many apps and windows open at...
Working in timezones
For Mac OS X users who need to keep track of time and date across timezones, Aion does a great job of it. You tell it which timezones you want, which one is your default et voilà, menubar International time....
So I'm not going crazy
Apple - Support - iPod Service If your iPod fails to hold a charge and it's more than a year old, you may need a new battery. Click Continue to order iPod battery service for $99 USD. This program is...
Crippled FTP in Panther
Why? Why do such a stupid thing? Mac OS X 10.3 a.k.a. Panther allows you to FTP via the Finder. It makes it look like your are "mounting" the remote file system. Here's how: Apple Key + K, ftp://yourhost.com, username...
The art of war.
Mac Rumors: Apple considering Marklar? Sounds like a finely sharpened strategy. Time will tell....
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