Posted by Paul on Jul 25, 2007 in Uncategorized
At work I’ve got a bunch of SSH logins across multiple systems. Now, I’ve got my password generator, and that’s been a big help, but I don’t want to have to go around entering passwords every time I want to log into a system, so I decided to set up SSH keys. The only problem [...]
Tags: Computers, Mac OS X, SSH, Unix
Posted by Paul on Feb 23, 2006 in Uncategorized
Why is there a rotate drop down? Is Apple trying to tell us something?
Tags: Computers, display, feature, Mac OS X, preferences panel
Posted by Paul on Feb 19, 2006 in Uncategorized
I just got a Motorola v557 from Cingular. It’s great. I get reception, my headset works. The only problem is that my Mac doesn’t work with it. No iSync, no File Browser. It sees it, but it doesn’t talk to it. Hopefully Apple will produce a fix for this in a couple weeks. I don’t [...]
Tags: Computers, iSync, Mac OS X, mobile phone
Posted by Paul on Jan 5, 2006 in Uncategorized
It’s finally here. I’d be excited, except it’s taken three years to get caught up to PCs. Hopefully Brad will have Civ IV out in a reasonable period of time, with reasonable performance. It’s hard being a Mac user sometimes…
Tags: civilization, Computers, games, Mac OS X
Posted by Paul on Dec 9, 2005 in Uncategorized
Playlist: NBC, Apple announced iTunes TV show deal NBC TV content available on iTunes includes Law & Order, The Office, Surface, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Monk, the Sci-Fi Channel’s production of Battlestar Galactica, and classics like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Dragnet, Adam 12 and Knight Rider. One less reason [...]
Tags: Computers, iTunes, Mac OS X, television
Posted by Paul on Nov 1, 2005 in Uncategorized
If you’re running SETI@home on your Mac, definitely check out check this out. I went from taking five and a half hours per result to just under 2 from my 1.5Ghz Powerbook G4. My Sawtooth G4/400 can churn out results in about three hours, which is how long it takes the 2.5Ghz Pentium 4 in [...]
Tags: Altivec, Computers, Mac OS X, SETI@Home
Posted by Paul on Oct 21, 2005 in Uncategorized
Update: This is one of the most popular posts on my blog, and I think I should update it for folks who come across it in the future. Currently, I’m using Google Apps on my domain, and they’ve recently released a sync service that uses an Exchange server. This not only works with Address Book, [...]
Tags: .Mac, Address Book, Computers, Mac OS X, sharing
Posted by Paul on Oct 13, 2005 in Uncategorized
The iMac The new design isn’t that revolutionary. It’s pretty much what we saw before, but thinner. (Just like almost everything else from Apple these days.) I showed it to my parents and they could hardly believe that “that’s the whole computer.” The ‘wow’ factor doesn’t affect me much, cause I’m the guy who walks [...]
Tags: Computers, content, design, iTunes, Mac OS X, media
Posted by Paul on Sep 9, 2005 in Uncategorized
I just had a really cool idea: Imagine being able to search the lyrics of all the songs in your iTunes library. Now that would be cool.
Tags: Computers, feature, iTunes, lyrics, Mac OS X, search
Posted by Paul on Jul 22, 2005 in Uncategorized
If you take the time to install Developer Tools with your Tiger installation you get some pretty cool stuff. One example is the pre-built examples of using CoreImage with Python. If you have Developer Tools installed, go to /Developer/Examples/Quartz/Python. You’ll see a bunch of files with a .py extension. One of my favorites is called [...]
Tags: Computers, CoreImage, Mac OS X, Python, script