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We’re reminded again of just how amazing the Airport Express is after setting one up last night. from the setup to using it could not be simpler. naming the network was a longer discussion then actually configuring it including turning on internet, music and printing features.
after it was working with the internet we plugged the [...]

if you’ve never read Programmers at Work it’s because it’s been out of print for almost two decades. you can find it used on Amazon but I’ve never seen in a used bookstore. it’s a book that captures a mind set for problem solving in a infectious way. some would say that it’s so old [...]

That was fast. Hello 2008!

Lots of people say that the “Desktop” is a bad thing but it’s really not. It’s a visual place for things that you are working on right now. Here’s a guy that snapped his work space everyday for the last year and made those images into a movie.Link

Want proof that if you have a problem all you have to do is tell what your problem is and somebody listening on the intercom will solve it for you? I was complaining that maps.google.com didn’t parse a two line address that got pasted into the search field. The first line makes it and the second line [...]

Here’s something that we’ll cover in a future show. It’s a Automator action that allows you to run a Python script just like how you can run AppleScript. Link.

One feature that Leopard killed was rounded corners on the display. Roundyness is a left over from the old days of CRT. Unlike a green phospher 80×24 character the corners of the bezel made the 512×342 bitmap look wrong. Obviously a pointy corner next to a soft curve looks a lot like a circle in [...]