Category Archives: Macintosh
iSticky – Sending Stickies Around the Internet
I’ve been using the Macintosh Stickies to keep track of things for years. It’s been my standby note taking application for 3 main reasons: free with the OS just start typing no need to explicitly ‘Save’ works without internet access I thought it’d be neat if Stickies could be shared. The folks behind iSticky thought …
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Some Powerbook Keys Not Working
Oddest thing. I pulled the PowerBook out the laptop bag and a handful of keys stopped responding. I’ve opened up the Keyboard Viewer to confirm. Here’s the list thus far: return & enter (came back after restart) Tilde Caps Lock F12 (initiates my Dashboard) Disc eject Left square bracket Arrow up Arrow right I plugged …
The PowerBook is Back
Phew. After what felt like 7-to-10 days without my laptop, I picked it up from the Roseville Apple Store this afternoon. It was a complete zoo there; line half-way to the door, people packed in the aisles, boxes of iPod Nano cases everywhere. Crazy. Anyway, the PowerBook is all shiny and clean, speakers work, mic …
eMac Is a Poor Replacement for a 17 inch Powerbook
The laptop is in the shop this week. Nothing as serious as Sam’s iBook problem, just a handful irritations I wanted to eliminated before the new year. That list: SuperDrive not accepting discs.Just made me realize how infrequently I actually use CD or DVDs. Internal speakers & microphone not working.This is a small irritant – …
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A Podcaster’s Christmas List
It’s the holiday shopping season and I thought it’d be useful to pull together a quick list of computer gear and accessories for the beginning podcaster. Things that would put the best foot forward and provide a good foundation to grow and expand…or not. Anyway, I was pretty surprised at how low the final price …
eMac Fax Modem Killed My Phone Line
I had to send a couple faxes yesterday. Something I do so infrequently that I just use the OS X’s built-in faxing on these rare occasions. The modem on my Powerbook hasn’t been working right for a while now – neither has the disc drive. I’m getting a real good idea of how much I …
Locally Running Multiple Rails Apps on OS X
There’s a couple of place describing how to support multiple Rails apps locally. They were either unavailable or way more complicated than I’d like (the HowtoDeployMoreThanOneRailsAppOnOneMachine at the RubyonRails wiki was both). Here’s how I was able to get multiple Rails apps running under Apache on OS X 10.4 Tiger. Created 2 Rails apps; AppOne …
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Solving PowerBook Trackpad Dead Zones
For about a week, the half inch on the far left and far right of my Powerbook’s trackpad were completely dead. Basically, it turned my 17″ Powerbook trackpad down to a 12″ Powerbook trackpad. These dead zones caused extremely flakey and erratic cursor behavior not to mention my mental image of the trackpad’s size was …
A Call for Dashboard Widget Evaluators
Last night, I was poking around Apple’s Dashboard Documentation and starting building a couple widgets. If you’ve upgraded to Tiger and interested in kicking the tires on them, drop me a line. Widget #1 released 18 May 2005: The ProjectMaker Dashboard Widget