Desktop Tower Defense
You all know the incredibly fun time suck, but now Station in the Metro has its own group scoreboard! Join by entering “stationinthemetro” as your group when you register your score.
Category: geek
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Automator bug in Rename Finder Items
MoreI’ve been building a backup workflow in Automator for my daily Final Cut Pro editing projects, and I ran into a little glitch. If I use the Rename Finder Items action in a workflow, then try to put another action after it that references the now-renamed file, I get errors which seem to indicate that […]
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LOLBRENT
Inspired by Brent Simmons’ Twitter post, with apologies to James Duncan Davidson, who snapped the pic.
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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 the real time, so the stores are closed again. Her first hack! I’m so proud. 🙂
Tomorrow, she turns 8. And she’s getting her first Mac.
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Multitouch Demo
Amazing demo of large-screen multi-touch displays by Jeff Han. (Same technology as in the iPhone, but much bigger.
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Having trouble mounting a removable drive? Read on…
MoreLet 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 […]
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Sony eReader, First Impressions
MoreI 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, […]
Mark Boszko
