07. Jan 2008 
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Finally, I’ve arrived in 2008 too. No, I’m not in an as of yet unheard of time zone – I simply was taking some time off, and not even dealing with the fact that a new year is upon us all. But now I’m rested and ready to join the rest of the world in [...]
18. Nov 2007 
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As promised in a previous article, I’ve been spending a bit more time researching backup options with OSX. Number One priority for backup – you actually need space to store your data. For now, I’ve been mostly looking into local hard drive storage. At the very least, you need one external hard drive to store [...]
05. Nov 2007 0 comments
No, not “to” the mines – My work is actually a fairly relaxed place. Instead, Petra and I spent the weekend in the mountains at Pala, screening for Gems. There’s exactly one working mine left in Pala, and the guys who run it (Purely as a hobby!) have open screening sessions. I.e. you can sift [...]
31. Oct 2007 4 comments
I’ve just discovered a rather annoying change in Safari’s RSS behavior. It lets you pick a feed now – i.e. if a page has multiple feeds, a little drop-down appears. That, in my book, is a bad idea. I’ll invoke the mythical UI Grandma (“Would your Grandma know what this means?”). It’s simply confusing. People [...]
29. Oct 2007 0 comments
Like every other Mac-geek on this planet, I got Leopard on Friday – the Family Pack, since by now we’ve got 3 Macs in our household. The installation went relatively painlessly. I don’t run APE, which can cause crashes on install, but I still had a minor issue where it refused to recognize any partition [...]
21. Oct 2007 4 comments
In the last few weeks, I’ve encountered a surprising number of data losses, or at least near-losses. People accidentally deleting stuff, losing their hard drives, or being locked out by their online providers. That’s scary, considering that most of my life resides on some form of hard drive by now. So I decided to take [...]
16. Oct 2007 16 comments
Today I experienced the feeling that, it seems, every independent OS X software developer is supposed to endure. Apple incorporated my iCalFix feature in iCal. (While I like the flattering thought that it’s “my” feature, I’m aware that it’s a fairly obvious one. They probably came up with that without help. But one can hope…). [...]
15. Oct 2007 1 comment
Today is Blog Action Day, an attempt to bring the environment into the forefront of discussion. I’m sure there’ll be plenty of advice for living a sustainable life – if you’re so inclined, check out Emerald City, an L.A. Times blog on green living for L.A., for example. That’s not my forte, though. Instead, I’d [...]
14. Oct 2007 0 comments
Ever since Gus Mueller released Acorn, I was itching to write a few plug-ins for it – having an image editor with scripting capabilities is a rather exciting prospect for me. ImageUnit for Reflections and a Spotlight! The first thing I tried out was simply running a filter kernel. Strangely enough, Apple’s documentation in that [...]
11. Oct 2007 2 comments
Wow. We – Pandemic Studios & Bioware – have just been bought by EA for $825 million. I know, a lot of you think EA are ‘the borg’, but I honestly think it’s a great opportunity for us. We’re getting marketing muscle, publishing knowledge, and a whole lot of tech knowledge. EA’s getting a ton [...]