Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Setting OS X Desktop Picture Based on Time of Day
Posted Thursday, April 25th, 2013.
Filed under General with the tags Apple, Apple Mac, AppleScript, GitHub, How-to, technology
I recently changed jobs (Hello, FireEye!) and was issued a new MacBook Air. I spend a lot of time looking at the screen and was getting bored with the supplied desktop pictures. I also start work very early most days (7am-ish), and thought it would be nice to have a desktop picture that matches the [...]
The lower 48
Posted Monday, May 28th, 2012.
Filed under General with the tags hawaii, Rant
While doing some online shopping, I received a notice that said Estimated Economy Delivery (delivered via USPS): 6 to 12 business days within the lower 48 United States. All P.O. Boxes, APO/FPO/DPO addresses and shipments to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands will ship via Economy Delivery. I always get peeved when I [...]
Importing Google Contacts into iCloud
Posted Sunday, November 20th, 2011.
Filed under General with the tags Apple, Apple Mac, Google, How-to, iCloud, iPhone, technology
I signed up for the new iCloud service, and wanted to sync my Google contacts so they will show up on my various Apple devices. MobileMe, iCloud’s predecessor, had built-in support for syncing with Google accounts, so I assumed iCloud would be a no-brainer. Unfortunately, it turns out iCloud does not auto-sync with Google. Here are some instructions for manually syncing your contacts.
Using the object element to dynamically embed Flash SWFs in Internet Explorer
Posted Monday, May 30th, 2011.
Filed under General, JavaScript, web design and development with the tags How-to, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, standards, SWFObject, web design and development
This is a journey into the madness of Internet Explorer. Yes, there is a happy ending.
Multiple Macs, One iTunes Library
Posted Friday, March 25th, 2011.
Filed under General with the tags Apple, Apple Mac, How-to, iTunes
50GB+ iTunes library. Multiple Macs. How can you share the iTunes library between Macs?
Rules for Work and School
Posted Wednesday, May 19th, 2010.
Filed under General with the tags opinion
I thought I’d type up a quickie list of things I believe in, as it relates to my profession or my kids’ schooling; I’ll leave out politics, religion, the sad state of the music industry, Apple versus Adobe, and alien conspiracies.
TextAreaExpander Class for MooTools
Posted Friday, May 7th, 2010.
Filed under General with the tags How-to, HTML, JavaScript, JavaScript UI Goodies, MooTools, web design and development
It does exactly what is says: expand textareas. No more, no less.
Dear Apple and Adobe
Posted Thursday, April 22nd, 2010.
Filed under General with the tags Adobe, Adobe Flash, Apple, best practices, opinion, standards, technology
Neither of you are choir boys, and I’m fed up with your bickering.
Rule of Thirds tutorial
Posted Wednesday, March 17th, 2010.
Filed under General with the tags graphic design, How-to, tutorials
By popular demand, I’m re-posting the Rule of Thirds tutorial. Rule of Thirds is quick and fun tutorial explaining the concept of the rule of thirds as used in visual design. I created this tutorial for a graduate-level Macromedia Director course at San Francisco State University in 2004.
Viewing PDFs in a Browser on a Mac
Posted Saturday, February 20th, 2010.
Filed under General with the tags Adobe Reader, firefox, How-to, PDF, PDFObject, safari, web browsers, web design and development
As a Mac user, one of the more annoying issues I frequently encounter is funky PDF handling in Firefox and Safari. Here are some things you can do to get PDFs working in your browser(s).
