Shawn’s Thoughts

Whirling dirveshes of a random mind

All your bluetooth base are belong to my q9m

I turned the lights down and fired up iTunes to play a little Gino Vanelli, trying to make sure the Bluetooth mating process between my q9m and my iMac went smoothly.  The iMac found the phone, and set it up as a Smartphone.  Yawn.  I’m not willing to give Verizon even more money just because [...]

Great news - Newsgator is now free

I switched from FeedDemon to Google Reader a while ago because it ran on Windows, OSX, and Windows Mobile.  and it was free.  I always loved FeedDemon (and NetNewsWire on OSX), and paying for something on each platform that didn’t sync (at the time) with each other was not attractive.
I was very happy to see [...]

Jesus Saves t-shirts

This is just too funny…B-). Found this on “Hawk Wings”…
Normally I don’t post this kind of thing, but I couldn’t resist mentioning this t-shirt which brings my day job (Anglican priest and theology lecturer) together with my blog.
MacMerc has designed a t-shirt which combines the time-saving importance of keyboard shortcuts with other important saving [...]

Waiting for OmniPlan

This is pretty exciting.  The Omni folks always create great UI, and I’m always looking for a better project mgmt app…  The site says the beta pops on 7/26, so we’ll see…
Brand New Secret Product no longer a secret
Project management has been called the ability to create the impossible, with the unwilling, against insurmountable [...]

New Apple Ads

I’m really liking Apple’s new ads. Clever.  Simple.  My favorite right now is “Viruses”…

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Performing Unnatural Acts with a .Mac account

I wanted to get even with my Powerbook this weekend.  The battery died, and I left the AC adapter at work.  It’s all the computer’s fault.  To get even, I tried something that I figured would bring Apple’s servers to their knees (or at least begin coughing up hairballs) – I published a page to [...]

OSX Gets an Uninstaller

I’ve been surprised that there hasn’t been more uproar about the lack of a good uninstaller in OSX.  My Windows brethren claim that’s because there’s not enough good software to fill enough of a disk to warrant an uninstaller.  Since my music collection is now taking up more than 60GB on my Powerbook, I have [...]

Leap-A/Oompa-Loompa/Latespics.gz - the real truth

I think I’ve discovered what the Leap-A virus/worm was designed to do. As best as I can tell, its ultimate goal is to post reported sightings of itself to every single Mac-related website known. There’s been more content generated by the reporting of the virus/worm that by the actual virus/worm itself… Come [...]

Tool o’ the day - Zengobi Curio

I just found a really interesting Macapp – Zengobi’s Curio 3.0 that may quickly replace the spot in my Dock currently occupied by Notebook.  I like how things are arranged by project, and you can add pretty much anything to a project.  Curio even has built-in support for creating simple sketches – perfect for those of [...]

More on the Mac - iWeb followup

I wrapped up the work on my personal “CruiseBlog” this morning – here’s the results.
iWeb is definately a V1.0 product.  The basic editing and publishing tasks are well-done, and there’s still a LOT of work that needs to be done on this application.  For instance, there’s no support for lists in the editor.  Using a [...]

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