Like all of you reading this, I have some things that I just hate to do. It’s not that they are particularly difficult, I just find them irrationally frustrating. Probably at the top of my list is scheduling things. Here is how I typically end up scheduling something with some …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Scheduling Help: When Is GoodGraffletopia ← Using OmniGraffle? Need stencils? Stop your search, here they are. Wow.
OmniGraffle Scripts ← Several scripts by Peter McMaster that help do some nice things, like drawing arcs, in OmniGraffle.
We recently converted my home office to hardwood flooring from carpet. Doing this required that the room be emptied, including a big filing cabinet. I decided it was time to do a filter through that filing cabinet and found some fun things from a many years ago. One of those …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Flashback: BigCharts Partnership Portfolio from 1997The Turning Gate Lightroom Web Galleries ← Nice set of additional web galleries that can be added to Lightroom.
I just upgraded to the new Google Earth 5.0 beta and was really surprised when I first launched it to get this dialog. The problem with this are the options. So, I get to either install Google Software Update, or Quit Google Earth. Where is the button saying “Decline” and allow …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Google Forcing Software Update InstallI just pulled the data out of my Garmin GPSmap 60CSx from my dog sledding trip. I just love being able to go into the wilderness and just drop my GPS somewhere with a little visibility and get a perfect track log. I fired up GPS Babel and got the data into KML format and you can …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Wintergreen Photography Workshop in Google EarthI Am Here: One Man’s Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle ← I’ve done some playing with location-aware applications, mostly Brightkite, and this article rang true to some of the thoughts and challenges I had with them as well. Location-awareness brings a new dimension to the web, but it will take some time to figure out how to do it right. His example of how easily he was able to find out where a woman he saw taking pictures in the park lived is an eye opener.
Found via GrumbleDroid by Tim Bray.
A few months ago I switched my home network to using OpenDNS for domain name lookups. Prior to that I had typically ran my own DNS server on my home LAN. This was a near requirement for me because I hosted some of my sites at my house and I needed to resolve them to private …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: I use OpenDNS, and you should too!I have all of my music in iTunes and it is my central hub for distributing nearly all content to various iPods, iPhones and Apple TV’s throughout the house and on-the-go. In my iTunes library, as of right now, I have 18,439 items totaling over 65 days of continuous music without …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: iTunes Tip: Using a "No Playlist" Playlist