My new iPod just arrived - the 30 GB video version.
It somehow feels so much better than my 4th generation 20 GB version. It seems much slimmer (probably only a few millimeters), the screen seems much bigger (again, it’s probably not actually very much bigger at all) and overall just much more delicious.
Yum!
Now I’m figuring […]

expose

Originally uploaded by johnkoetsier.

This was my colleague Carl Forde’s desktop today - he was working on an image-manipulation web app, had a ton of photos open at once, and hit the Mac OS X expose key.
I had to ask him to take a screenshot […]

How can someone this clueless get a job writing for tech magazines?
John Dvorak is talking about the Apple versus Apple lawsuit: the Beatles versus Apple computer. Here’s his solution:

In an effort to save the money, though, I would suggest that the company change its name for good. Offer a million dollars to the public-at-large in […]

OK, just first impressions. Kinda ugly, isn’t it?

The National Education Computing Conference NECC 2006 keynote speakers were just annouced.
It hasn’t hit their website yet, but apparently Nicholas Negroponte will be there to give a speech about his one laptop per child project. NECC sent out an email about it this afternoon:

ISTE is pleased to announce that Nicholas Negroponte and Dewitt Jones will […]

Crazy Apple Rumors has a great - and just slightly tongue-in-cheek - article about the recent iPod hearing-loss lawsuits:

“We did a cost/benefit analysis,” said Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, “And it clearly is not cost effective to continue to have stupid people as our customers.”

That about sums up my opinion regarding silly class action lawsuits […]

I’m sort of in the market for a design tool that will let me have some fun with home design and architecture, and there are two tools that appear interesting right now.
One is Microspot Interiors. Looks very cool - you see it in action via a demo movie. A bit pricy, perhaps, at about 120 […]

I’d like to use Firefox more. I honestly would.
But when I get stuff like this, I really, really don’t feel like it.

There is not a bold or a strong or a css class tag anywhere in that paragraph.
Firefox has stronger compatibility across the entire web. There are occasional sites that do not display or behave […]

OmniOutliner is an excellent Mac OS X app for outlining and organizing just about any kind of information.
It’s intuitive, powerful, and elegant, but there’s one thing that annoyed me about it: it insisted on printing the title of each document at the top of the document.
This totally violates the WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) principle, since the title, […]

I need a backup solution for my home computer (an iMac G5), and I’m considering these products:
- Deja Vu, for backup and cloning software
- Iomega 250 GB USB 2.0 external drive, for actual disk space
(That’s a pretty cheap 250 gigs, btw … about $100 USD, after rebates.)

Downloaded and installed Thunderbird today, and configured it for two of my 5 email addresses.
I’m a little put out with OS X’s Mail … it’s a beautiful but sometimes too ditzy blond.
My main problem right now is that Mail’s autocompletion of email addresses that you start typing seems buggy: Mail will lock up and […]

Some guy presumably named Bynk has written a bellyaching article complaining about haxies.
Sounds like he’s in IT support, and has has tons of fun trying to fix pointy-haired bosses’ computers after they’ve installed a haxie or two. A haxie is (IMO) an application that futzes with the underlying operating system. In a sense, it’s […]

I like this Steve Jobs quote: “a technology in search of a problem.” Saw it here, and doesn’t it ring a bell when you look at some of the consumer electronics products available today ….

… in Valley Fair Mall in San Jose. OK, so it’s Santa Clara.
Lots of cool toys for my iPod. No new iMacs yet, of course …

But following threads I read you manage the ipodcatter to work.. as I see in your image… looks great!!! I tried a lot, an already did research, but I just can’t get it to work!!! so, I please ask your your support.. any help I’ll aprecciate… Thanx in advance…
Leo.
falconi13@hotmail.com

OK, it finally happened to me … my Powerbook G4 hard drive bit the dust, hard.
It’s certainly beyond the hope of recovery with software disk tools - Disk Utility was a joke, and DiskWarrior beat on it for a couple of hours before giving up in despair.
Losing a hard drive is nasty, nasty, nasty. […]

I just saw this software in Macintouch’s RSS feed.
Very cool - great software for web developers and bloggers.
The app is called DreamCatcher, which couldn’t have anything to do with a certain web design app, could it? DreamCatcher is desktop software that runs on Mac OS X - Just set it up with a URL, it’ll […]

New word: PodSwitching. Or phrase: pod switching.
The scenario: two people on a airplane, both pull out their iPods, and exchange them so they can check out each other’s music.

iTunes podcast search is more than a little wierd … I posted on it in detail at my The Linguist blog …