December 2011
1 post
Yahoo! More like Yahoo?
‘iPhone’ Ranks as Top Search Term on Yahoo!
People still use Yahoo!?
January 2011
1 post
change that ugly twitter for mac (2.0.2) icon
what’s up with twitter for mac changing it’s icon with each release so far? it’s gone from black - to blue - to ugly. here’s how you can change it:
quit twitter for mac
remove twitter for mac from your dock
open terminal
cd /Applications/Twitter.app/Contents/Resources
sudo mv Icon3.icns Icon.icns
type in your password
open twitter
note: you can replace Icon3.icns...
September 2009
1 post
my [apple] predictions for 09.09.09
so, apple’s having a media event tomorrow, here are my predictions:
everything with the word ipod in it (besides the nano shuffle) will have a camera in it.
itunes 9 with: social aspects: facebook and twitter “what i’m listening to” sharing capabilities, and “cocktail” - which’ll be a snazzy’ier way to get an albums digital booklet - that people...
April 2009
4 posts
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tweetie (for mac)
this weeks pick, tweetie (for mac), is my first “pick from the future”.
for those of you looking for an alternative desktop twitter client, ahem…cough…cough…tweetdeck…ahem….cough…ahem, tomorrow may be the day you’ve all been waiting for. @atebits, the creators of my favorite twitter iphone application, tweetie, are releasing a mac client...
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time machine editor
do you backup? do you use time machine? do you hate that, by default, it does a backup every hour? time machine editor gives you more control over your time machine backups that apple somehow left out of time machine’s preferences. the editor will let you set two schedule options: standard interval or calendar intervals.
the interval setup will tell time machine to backup every x hour(s). ...
another @scottbourne drobo giveaway!
@scottbourne is giving away another drobo! i mentioned in my own drobo post - he loves giving these things away.
while you’re hear, please check out (click - wink wink) scott bourne’s other websites:
twipphoto.com and mydl.me
details for april’s drobo giveaway can be found here.
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my other twitter accounts
so this week’s pick is a bit of a stretch, and i want to apologize in advance for these shameless plugs - but for those of you who don’t know - i manage a handful of other twitter accounts besides @thecoleorton.
i’m always trying to find new uses for twitter. so far i’ve got accounts that can inform you of a new concerts in st. louis including: the pageant, the fox, the...
March 2009
7 posts
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drobo
so, if you have a pulse, and are online, you’ve surely heard about drobo by now. what is it? at it’s core - it’s an external hard drive - that backs up your data - twice. drobo requires at least two hard drives to leverage it’s beyondRAID technology. i like to refer to it as RAID for lazy people. for example, if one of your drobo HD’s craps out, your data will be...
win a free drobo!
MYDL.ME is giving away a free Drobo (just like everyone else on the web, right?). Contest rules are below, or check out the blog post here.
“Welcome to Managing Your Digital Life. Thanks for stopping by. We’re giving away TWO free Drobos in March. To be eligible to win, simply link to MYDL.ME from your blog or website. If you don’t have a blog or website, you can get a free blog from...
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advantageous mp3
this weeks pick of the week - advantageous mp3 - is an apple script that will look for the song you have selected in itunes - on amazonmp3.com. so why did this make my pick of the week this week? here are some reasons:
1. searching - although the itunes music store is a bit more DRM friendly these days, 5 months ago when i discovered advantageous it allowed me to search for songs in itunes...
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wireless time machine backups without an apple...
if you’ve got some macs around the house, an airport extreme, and an extra external hard drive laying around - you’ve got all the pieces to get wireless time machine backups setup - no time capsule needed.
here’s what you’ve got to do:
format the external hard drive by firing up disk utility - give your drive a name - and format it with the file system of your choice (i...
watchmen
so. i saw watchmen last night. i wanted to preface this review - noting that i’ve read the graphic novel 3 times now. if i could quote my tweet last night, which details my thoughts shortly after seeing the film.
alrighty - so why’d i say this? well i’ll say again - what i said in the above tweet - i never ever ever ever - after finishing up the book - thought, “man -...
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twit.am
as many of you know - i’m a twitterholic. when i tweet out this blog post - it’ll be my 2,327th tweet… i am also a rabid twit.tv listener as well - mainly listening to this week in tech and macbreak weekly. now, although they sound the same - twitter and twit.tv - are completely different and not related at all. this week in tech gets me through most monday mornings, however...
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mint.com (warning: this site won't help your...
with everyone freaking about money, the stock market, and your savings these days - every little cent saved can go a long way. mint.com is a free site that allows you to track your finances - with a pretty sexy interface. hey, it got me excited to see where all my hard earned cash is going…
simply plug all of your accounts (checking, savings, investments, credit cards, loans, property,...
February 2009
34 posts
new to twitter? things you must do...
i’ve been slowly seeing more and more of my friends on twitter lately. i’ve been at the twitter game for quite some time now - for, oh, about a year now… here are some things i’ve learned from twitter that i would like to share with all the new twitter’ers.
make twitter whatever you want it to be. you do NOT have to answer the question you want it to. that being...
how i got someone a job...via twitter
also, i’d like to add - i’ve never actually met the two involved - never face to face - never in person - nothing - our only communications have been via twitter.
chain of events below:
brad hogenmiller is an IT recruiter/account manager at technology partners with over 500+ Connections on linkedin. looking for an IT job? follow brad on twitter @javastl.
still...
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airfoil
have an aiport express? an appletv? want to stream audio from you computer, say from firefox, the twit live deskop air app (check out the boxee twit plugin - it rocks!), pandora, last.fm, or any other application to your existing ‘wireless’ speakers - well, you can with airfoil.
airfoil ‘hijacks’ your local applications audio - and streams it to your airport express,...
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spanning sync
with last weeks pick, i filled you all in on dropbox, an application that keeps your files in sync across multiple computers. this weeks pick, spanning sync, continues with the sync theme from last week. spanning sync allows you keep your google calendar(s) in sync with ical, as well as your google contacts with address book.
personally, i only use spanning sync to manage my calendars - opting...
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how to get your work's outlook calendar on your...
with this weeks announcement of google’s new, google sync service, i went out on a mission to finally try to get my work calendar on my iphone - and without any cables (“the cloud”, ftw!). to i’m using a combination of google calendar sync + google sync.
google calendar sync allows you to sync outlook with your primary google calendar - calendar (this is the calendar...
my first app of the week pick, follow my picks here: http://is.gd/iPIP
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dropbox
dropbox is an application that keeps your files in sync - across multiple computers. perfect for those who have more than one computer.
so how’s dropbox work? dropbox adds a special folder to you computer - if/when you save, add, and delete files in your dropbox folder - it automatically cascades those changes to all your other computers.
dropbox even has a web interface - allowing you to...
crap - just found out that there is no iphone API that’ll turn off things within ‘settings’ (like wifi, bluetooth, ringer…). boo!
playing around with iphones corelocation framework.
perfecting my biscuit and gravy making skills…
just landed a gig to test an iphone application for work…
test twitter2gchat…
“is that jim’s?” could be the best office quote…period.
“Your Bank of America Credit account balance has increased by 54% from $13 to $20” - thanks equfax…
playing with google’s latitude - i’ve been wanting a similar iphone app for quite some time now…accept my invites if you’d like.
RT @cubeecraft: perfect companions for your desk - http://www.cubeecraft.com
Apple to Allow Background Tasks on iPhone? →
Apple is considering allowing apps to run as user selectable background processes. If so, this feature would likely come in the rumored iPhone 3.0 software update but would be limited to only one or…
Wow. Just woke up. Not feeling so hot.
trying out foxmarks.com…
nice - using ssh + os x’s say “word” command freaked kadie the hell out!! hahaha
this worked grep -li “findme” *| xargs perl -pi -e ‘s/findme/changeto/gi’ - thanks @ryanhirsch for the help!
remembering how to use ‘s/e/d/g’…
Drive DRUNK [PIC] →
kindle 2.0 will be announced today, right?
WOW..Korea to Get 1Gbps Downloading by 2012 ! →
While we’re all celebrating Charter’s 60Mbps broadband access here in the US, the Korea Communications Commission is spending $24 billion to secure 1Gbps access by 2012.1Gbps allows you to download a…
someone’s birthday is coming up, 12 days, ahem, ideas - http://is.gd/ibfn
whoo hoo! drobo’s working over fw800 now!
memory installed - imac maxed out - http://twitpic.com/1b290
figured it out, word ftw - did a find: “><”, replace: “>^l<”…in case you were wondering.
looking for a site/program/script that’ll take an .xml file and spit out xml in the proper format (hard returns at <>here</>).
basically - i have xml that’s all on one line…i’d like to have it more readable. thanks.
BART signs 20-year deal for Wi-Fi →
A pilot project testing high-speed Internet access on portions of BART will expand systemwide, allowing people to surf the Web, send e-mail and videoconference when riding the rails or waiting in the…
dusting, sweeping/mopping the floors…yuck.
Google flags entire internet as malware →
Google flags entire internet as malwareFound this as i was googling (see link below). Techcrunch reports this breaking…
#favoldgame kings quest vi - heir today, gone tomorrow.