"Technology" in the very broad sense.
By brock on Mon 15 Feb 2010, 3:36 pm
A week or two ago, I moved this and all my other sites from 1&1 to Dreamhost. I was only on 1&1 because someone mentioned a good deal they had going when I needed hosting five years ago, and I just never bothered switching away. I never liked their admin interface, my sites were sometimes slow as hell or missing entirely, and it was a pain in the ass to do anything. Case in point: a few weeks ago, I got a notice that one of my domains was about to expire and would be auto-renewed for me. The problem was that I didn't want to renew the domain. Read more »
By brock on Tue 2 Feb 2010, 2:05 pm
So that I don't have to go looking for this again next time, you can move the dock to the left, center, or right (or top, middle, or bottom, if you have it on the left or right side of the screen) using one of the following Terminal commands:
defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string start
defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string end
defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string middle
Then restart the Dock for it to take effect:
killall Dock
Update: Bryan's comment made me realize I wasn't really clear on what I was talking about here. Read more »
By brock on Tue 2 Feb 2010, 12:54 am
I don't want to say too much about the iPad. It's been covered plenty by more informed and eloquent bloggers than me, but I do want to talk about the ramifications a bit.
There seem to be two opinions on the iPad: the folks that say this is the future of computing, and the folks that say that first group is a bunch of rabid Apple fanboys that are willing to pay too much for an overgrown iPod Touch. Read more »
By brock on Mon 1 Feb 2010, 10:36 pm
Just about every week, I see something about an open source product that I don't like. Usually it's just some admin feature that could use a couple more options. Most of the time, it's a really irritating but trivial bug, like escaping single quotes in the name of a blog (looking at you, WordPress µ).
And every time, I think, "I should make this better and get involved in this project. Maybe this could be My Thing."
And then I remember that I don't get around to most of the projects that are already My Things. But someday, somewhere - I'll fix something.
By brock on Mon 1 Feb 2010, 1:04 am
I don't think I ever mentioned it here, but Erin and I made a deal not too long ago: if I averaged three visits to the gym each week (at a minimum of 45 minutes each) for two months, I could splurge and get myself a Kindle. And, I have to keep that rate up for two more months, or she takes it away.
Well, I've had my Kindle for just under two weeks now, and I love it. The original thinking was that it would fit on the little shelf on cardio machines better than a book would, and I would be inclined to spend more time working out if I had something to read. Read more »
By brock on Mon 18 Jan 2010, 9:16 pm
I just want to point out two little utilities that have been making my life much easier for the past week or two.
Window management on the Mac has always been less than perfect: the maximize button never quite does, and on apps like iTunes, it does something else entirely like switch to the mini mode. Read more »
By brock on Wed 25 Nov 2009, 6:29 pm
Kottke's idea, not mine, but I like it:
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p>Allow two classes of apps in the App Store: those approved by Apple and those not approved by Apple. The unapproved apps would only be accessed through direct searches (they would not appear in top 10 lists or be featured on the front page), would carry cigarette-grade warnings that it might kill your phone and cause cancer, and maybe Apple would take a slightly larger cut to incentivize developers to get apps approved. Read more »
By brock on Mon 16 Feb 2009, 9:38 pm
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By brock on Mon 9 Feb 2009, 9:03 pm
Every now and then I notice a pixel on my MacBook Pro display that's stuck on white. This pixel has a 1-pixel wide light gray border. And it isn't a dead pixel in the display - it appears in different places in the display at different times.
Now, just what in the hell am I supposed to do about that?
