I’ve been having this issue with the Mail app on OSX for the past few months. There’s a lot of keyboard lag and pauses. Basically, every few words the program would basically freeze up for a second or so while I’m typing, and then catch up with my keystrokes. The fix: Close the Mail app. [...]
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Unlocking creativity
I’m currently taking the Crash Course on Creativity by Stanford’s Tina Seelig. The course is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), which in this case means that it has tens of thousands of students (massive!), is free, and is online. The barriers to entry are: you have a pulse, computer, email address, time, and initiative. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Submarine data cables
At a recent party, I was explaining cables that run under the ocean and how the Internet was designed to route around failures. I’m a hit at parties. Anyway, I ran across this map of submarine cables today. In the event that data flow across one of these cables is degraded or terminated, routers across [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Merry XBOX Christmas
Let’s look at my Google Analytics for this site for the last month: Well that’s strange. Why were so many people interested in visiting my sleepy little site on Christmas Day? Oh, so there you go. New XBOXs!
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I bought myself a MacBook Air yesterday. Before I get into my thoughts on the computer itself, let me type at you for a minute about the Apple Store experience. I do not like it. I need order, not chaos. I need to know where to find my product, and where to pay for it. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Creating a ringtone for the iPhone
I spent a fair amount of time recently creating a few custom ringtones based on audio from Arrested Development. There has to be an easier way than what I went through. Rip one of the Arrested Development DVDs to ISO using DVD Shrink. Use Handbrake to transcode a single episode. Turn the Video rate down [...]
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Can you spot what’s wrong with this? If you make forms like this, you should find a different job. Tip: try using the form you’ve just designed. Name: ______________________________________ Address: ________ Phone: ______ DOB: _______ Or asking for magic numbers: FASB #: ________ LUPUS ID: ________ Sorry, just grumpy because it’s 2011 and I have [...]
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Good information. I did not know this.
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Last week sometime, I was bored, so I trolled the App Store for new games and found one called VegasTowers. I thought it was basically SimTower, which I was cool with since I loved that game, but turns out it’s not. If I were rating it on the App Store, which I haven’t yet, I’d [...]
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