Year: 2010

  • Home Made Egg Nogs

    According to the taste test I did a couple of years back for an egg nog-focused podcast (that was, ultimately, never quite completed), we did several home-made nog recipes based on various combinations of dairy and liquor.

    The one that won our never-before-revealed taste test was this recipe from the folks at the marketing department […]

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  • Regarding Your Restaurant’s Website

    Dear Restaurant,

    I really enjoy your comestibles! But your website makes it a little hard to find the information I need.

    When I go to a restaurant website, I’m usually out somewhere, hungry, accessing it from my phone, and I’m looking for these three things, in this order:

    First of all, let me […]

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  • Figlio (1994?-2010)

    Figlio was my first real pet, and by “real,” I mean “not a goldfish.” My dad didn’t want any mammalian pets in the house, and so I never had one as a child. We adopted Figlio a little over six years ago from a lawyer whose fiancé was allergic to cats. She hid under the […]

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  • Pro Applications Update 2010-02

    Update to Final Cut Studio applications today on 15 September, including these lovelies (among others):

    • FCP: Closed captioning data is now preserved when outputting to AJA Io HD with Print to Tape/Video.
    • FCP: XML export now retains the carriage return when working with text and third-party applications.
    • FCP: Several memory fragmentation issues have been resolved.
    • Compressor: Adds a compression setting optimized for iPad and iPhone 4.

    Go get it!

  • iTunes AppleScripts to Clean TV Episode Metadata

    This weekend, I dumped a bunch of TV episodes I ripped from DVDs into iTunes, and faced a daunting task to clean up all of the titles and other metadata. Thankfully, iTunes has a special […]

    If your tracks are named something like 22 - The Gift, this script will grab the prefix number […]

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  • Apple Pro Keyboard disassembly and cleaning

    The Apple Pro Keyboard is mushy and unresponsive, but worst of all, it traps and showcases dirt inside its clear plastic shell as if it were a disgusting work of art.

    If you want to get back to your pristine-looking APK, it takes a fair amount of effort to take apart and clean. This guide […]

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Mark Boszko

Film & Video Editor, Voiceover Artist, macOS IT Engineer, and Maker

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