February 2008
At the Stoned Crow, beer + burgers.
January 2008
Not blaming @richrose for the fact that Detroit is running late, but /me needs beer badly.
The answer, as @richrose + @bleed0ut got correctly: Marathon Durandal.
TwitterQuiz: Which vintage Mac FPS game has made the transition to Xbox Live?
previous tweet delivered solely to annoy @film_girl.
matchmaker, matchmaker, plan me no plans // i’m in no rush // maybe I’ve learned // playing with matches a girl can get burned…
Making a neighbor connection between two firms that will soon be in the same building (Dealnews & Freeverse). matchmaker matchmaker…
going to visit Freeverse HQ. man, it’s cold out.
Parallels webcast today launches Virtuozzo... →
Filed under: Enterprise, Software
Despite the publicity around Parallels’ flagship Mac product, Parallels Desktop (which we’ve contributed to in some small part), there are some other interesting tools in the stable of Parallels’ parent company, SWsoft — which is now being rebranded as Parallels, Inc. just to keep us on our toes. One of those products is Parallels Virtuozzo...
Gah! Missed bus, now taking H to school on subway. Day in ‘awesome’ mode.
Falling asleep on Q train. This does not bode well for 2-hour class with no dinner.
Class going well tonight. Things moving along, the occasional “hey, never thought of that!” Cool.
NTFSready cleans up your filename act →
Filed under: Enterprise, Software, Switchers
One of my intermittent day-job responsibilities is to move big chunks of data (20 GB or more in a session) from the friendly, forgiving, name-your-files-whatever-you-want confines of a Mac OS X server onto cranky, finicky, no-funky-characters (but portable) NAS devices so that the data can travel with a production team to some far-away city. This...
CosmoPod video downloader for Safari goes 2.0 →
Filed under: Video, Internet Tools
If you want an instant conversion mechanism for web videos to iPod-able formats, there’s the recently mentioned Tooble; if you want the same capability in a handy Safari plugin, there’s CosmoPod. The 2.0 version of CosmoPod is now available and it offers H.264 support, QuickTime 7.4 compatibility, and more.
CosmoPod will convert almost all web video...
going to bed. Teaching tomorrow night, need my sleep lest I go all medieval on annoying student.
N train, manhattan bridge, homeward bound. Catching up on wait wait don’t tell me.
@ShawnKing but I think a kiosk/badge swipe console where press could opt in, or download kits there, would have been very 21st Century.
@ShawnKing I do use the press kit wall as a primitive reminder system. “Oh, yeah, I wanted to check that out.”
@vagredajr see @shawnking, he’s questioning your environmental efforts. :-)
@ShawnKing I’m not sure I’m prepared to call him ‘my boy’ but I’ll pass the sentiment along.
Need to figure out how to get eRoom 7.31.496.30 to support IE7, without upgrading (no support contract). Help me twitter you’re my only hope
Numbers update: “This update addresses compatibility with Mac OS X.” Because compatibility with OS 9 is not the priority it once was.
@ejacqui why, is @chartier letting his meth habit get the better of him again?
Mac 101: Apple's product guide →
Filed under: Mac 101
Back to basics with Mac 101, our ongoing series of posts aimed at new Mac users. If you’ve got a hankering for news about the latest Mac-compatible products, you’ve got plenty of places to look (including, naturally, right here). What if you’ve got a specific product need, something obscure, small-audience or somewhat vintage? You can always hit the search...
Enjoying my early-morning attaboy — thanks @vagredajr
@slavin :-( Bitte, sag “tschüss” zu Berlin für mich. Tut mir leid, das du bist traurig.
Make your Time Machine drive more useful and more... →
Filed under: Tips and tricks, Leopard
As we’ve mentioned recently, one of the conditions for a successful bare-metal restore of a Time Machine backup is a Leopard install DVD; you boot from the DVD, choose your backup as source material, wait some number of hours, and then you’re back in business. Wouldn’t it be good, wondered a tipster at Macosxhints.com, if you could combine...
Jury duty questionnaire. Ruh-roh.
Apparently I am to CONTACT MR. ZHU to facilitate his Fourty Nine Million US Dollar investment. This is terribly exciting.
What's the deal with Entourage 2008 and Blackberry... →
Filed under: Software
If you’ve got a Blackberry that you plan to sync with Entourage 2008 (other than via Exchange and a Blackberry Enterprise Server, which could give two figs for your client application), you might run into some difficulty. No, you’ll be fine. Well, now we’re not sure. What’s all this fuss about? Let’s start with this post from MacWindows, which...
@bynkii uuurgh. not going to scrape that image off my retinas anytime soon, thanks a bunch.
For what it’s worth, this is the coal-fired future W has in mind: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/national/21coal.html
last.fm 3 free plays + Audio Hijack or Wiretap = hmm. http://tinyurl.com/ysgcvr
T-shirt idea: VMware logo in Rasta tricolor, caption “Virtualize it!” Goodnight America, I’m here all week — tip your bartender.
@bradlinder LOL “Ah am pleazed to report, the state of our brush-clearing on the rahnch is strohng.”
@bradlinder I’m getting chills up my spine and some nervous indigestion. Please, I beg you, stop.
A tongue-in-cheek response to TwitterPacks: http://twitter-schmucks.pbwiki.com/
@bradlinder AAAAAH! They did NOT say that… “Likely final?” Frickin’ kill me now, I beg you.
Considering my options for upgrading a Virtuozzo 3 installation to Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4. Wondering if new name will fit.
@panache http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/
@panache I think I snuck you into the Apple pack
@chartier that’d be moi. I wanted to make the most of my five minutes of editing power.
@ShawnKing If you can’t be trusted with power, what hope is there for the rest of us?
@chrisu you’re welcome
@ShawnKing “Wiki, n. a web page you can edit.” :-P Feel free to contribute directly. (I probably won’t leave it up forever, could get ugly.)
@ShawnKing It is a good person list, but you’ve sparked an idea… http://twitter-schmucks.pbwiki.com/
Some justices have left hand over right, others right over left. It’s a dominant/submissive thing.
@chartier, @blankbaby, @film_girl, @shawnking, @bynkii, @jojeda — http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/Technology
@soukupondra thanks! trying to troubleshoot SMS Czech phone -> Sprint phone in US, thought Twitter might make a reasonable go-between.
@ShawnKing We had the same call last night on talkcast. May be authenticated RSS feed in Mail with .Mac sync on. http://tinyurl.com/38p4bw