Hidden settings in MPlayerX
I've switched to using MPlayerX (App Store) since upgrading to Mac OS X Lion because it can play many more formats than Quicktime and is, in many ways, much better looking than…
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How browsers work
What happens after you hit Enter on a browser? A lot. And the people over at HTML5 Rocks have taken the time to explain every nitty gritty detail about how a web…
Tweeting for steak
Guy half-jokingly tweets that he wants a steak hand-delivered to an airport terminal from one of his favorite restaurants. They show up with a free meal. Great, fun story. Pardon me while…
Aviatin’
Eliza got me some Aviators.
Ireland, ready for our arrival
We'll be heading to Ireland in a few months. According to these two screenshots from Google Maps Ireland is ready for our arrival.
Uninstalling applications on Lion is arguably more difficult
When I switched to the Mac I was surprised how easy it was to install and uninstall applications in OS X compared to the horrible installer workflow and the Add/Remove Programs Control…
Control Spotify using Alfred
Speaking of Alfred, Jeff Johns (fellow Viddler team member) has released an Alfred Extension to control Spotify.
Introducing Shh: An AppleScript and Alfred Extension to close all those noisy streams
As the work day progresses I find myself with more and more "streams" open. Not long after I log onto my computer in the morning Twitter, Skype, iChat, Mail and other streams…
Marco Arment reviews Coffee Joulies so we don’t have to
Thank goodness for people that are geeks about different things than I am and are willing to share their findings with the world. That is exactly what Marco Arment is (a geek…
Web Actions
Tantek elikshares his thoughts on Web Actions for pages on the web. You may have already seen similar things over the years like share, digg, like, 1 and follow buttons. Now Tantek…
Bumblin’ around
Evening coffee
Finishing my book.
I wouldn’t shop at forumsstore.com
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I thought I'd drop a note, for Google more than anything, that I wouldn't shop at forumsstore.com (which I won't link directly to). This site comes up on Google…
Rotten
Taken in Jermyn, PA.
The plusses and minuses of Google+
This might get a little long in the tooth so you may want to top-up that beverage. Google has run me over like a freight train. Over the last few weeks I've…
How we watch Netflix
I'm pretty surprised by the statistics that show how people watch Netflix (and Hulu). Arguably the worst experience is on the computer and the best experience is on the Apple TV. And…
The cost of The One Ring
Speaking of Weta, did you know that you can purchase the ring of power for only $2,500 USD? Sounds like abargainto me.
The history of Webkit
Interesting read: The History of Webkit by Zach LeBar.
Weta Workshop
A great video out of Weta Workshop that played in front of a limited theatre release of The Lord of the Rings recently. Watch in HD and in full screen for the…
Check-in services need to get much faster and more valuable.
Foursquare is currently winning in the check-in services space but I believe it is still anybody's game because there is still a lot of work to do. Even though I "know" people…
Texters by Joe Holmes
Fantastic photo gallery of people on their mobile phones by Joe Holmes. /via Jason Kottke.
Writing helps you think
This isn't news to anyone. But I thought that Meagan Fischer had an interesting way of stating this in a recent post. "For me, that’s the real beauty of writing. Ideas can…
A storm wraps around Saturn
Titles this cool don't come around too often.
How much sunscreen should I wear?
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] The answer is: more than you probably expected and far more complicated.
What is your string?
My cat Pickles goes crazy when he sees string. Whether it be the pull-string for our window shades, a loose string from a piece of clothing – just about any string he'll…
An iPod Nano watch was never a good idea
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] But it sure did look cool. I was bent on getting the Tik-tok and iPod Nano to use as a watch since the very first day I came across…
Viddler Tuna Contest
It was a hard fought battle.
Kyle Neath on Designing GitHub for Mac
I'm always looking for validation of my hair-brained ideas. In Kyle Neath's post on his designing GitHub for Mac I found this nugget which backs up my assumptions that I made about…
GitHub for Mac is a big deal
Many command line elitists may not be all that excited about GitHub for Mac, an application for managing your local and GitHub-hosted Git repositories by the GitHub team, but I'm sure they'll…
Reeder for Mac hits the App Store
I just did something I've been waiting months to do. I purchasedReeder for Mac from the App Store. It isn't very often that I am so anxious to pay for something that…