Inspired by Brent Simmons’ Twitter post, with apologies to James Duncan Davidson, who snapped the pic.
Category: geek
First Hack. Age 7.99999
My daughter just told me that sometimes in her Animal Crossing game on the DS, the stores are only open at certain times. But if she’s not playing at the right time, she goes and changes the time, so the stores are open and she gets stuff she needs, and then she changes back to…
Multitouch Demo
Amazing demo of large-screen multi-touch displays by Jeff Han. (Same technology as in the iPhone, but much bigger.
Having trouble mounting a removable drive? Read on…
Let me start with how Mac OS X deals with removable drives. When you plug in a FireWire or USB drive, or even toss in a CD or DVD, those drives pretty much just appear on the desktop, right? Sure, but underneath the glossy Mac surface, the Unix system does something else. It creates an…
Sony eReader, First Impressions
I was just finally shipped my Sony eReader, which I ordered a few months ago. It’s the one with the “revolutionary” new e-paper screen, and the horrible Mac compatibility. I have yet to get it sync’d to my Mac, and I’m working on 2 options to do so: 1.) Running Windows in Parallels and/or BootCamp,…
Learn how to make your own Dashboard Widgets with Dashcode
How-to video site HowTube finally release episode 3 [No longer online —Ed. 2015-08-14], and it takes you through building an entire simple Widget with Dashcode, including tips on how to make links open in your browser, and tricks to make your widget building go faster and smoother.
Macworld Expo ’07, Day One
I took a tour with a bunch of Macworld attendees, Hosted by Adam Jackson of Daily Tech Talk, walking around (and I do mean waking around) the city, and aside from the associated aches and pains, we had a great time. Met some great people, and got some wonderful shots of the city that we…