Friday, January 9, 2009

Specifying minimum font sizes in Mail.app

Great tip: Specifying minimum font sizes in Mail.app. [via Airbag]

Monday, December 15, 2008

Get Dropbox!

I have little Mac utility chubby for Dropbox, and based on a few weeks of use, I highly recommend it. It's the easiest way I've found to keep files synchronized among a number of remote computers, and it's saved my bacon—along with my files—several times. Installation and use couldn't be simpler, and it's available for Mac, Windows and Linux. It's free for up to 2GB of files (more than enough for me so far) and $9.99 a month for up to 50GB. Awesome!

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Spaces behavior in OS X 10.5.3 now closer to what you’d expect

Whoa! The "Spaces" feature of Mac OS X Leopard just became useful to me. John Gruber explains how.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

The iMac turns 10

I've still got one of these somewhere in the basement and, of course, there's the modern edition sitting on my desk on which I type these very words. Happy 10th birthday, iMac!

Friday, May 2, 2008

Laptop bags for 13 inchers

Macworld takes a look at three bags ideal for 13" laptops.

Sunday, March 4, 2007

links for 2007-03-04

• Giraffobia
  No longer must I suffer in silence. I have found my people. Perhaps now you understand why (among at least two reasons) I simply cannot go to Toys R Us.
  (tags: humor)
• WebnoteHappy - a better bookmark manager for your Mac
  Looks promising as an aid to using del.icio.us, but I'll stick with Pukka, thanks.
  (tags: del.icio.us macintosh software)

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

links for 2007-02-06

• Fenêtres Volantes
  Very, very cool freeware. Animates your desktop windows to fly around the screen as a saver.
  (tags: macintosh screensaver)
• Spanning Sync Blog
  Right on! Software to sync Mac iCal and Google calendar bidirectionally. Woot!
  (tags: macintosh software calendar google)

Monday, February 5, 2007

links for 2007-02-05

• YouTube: 1975 Ball Buster Game Commercial
  "Try to bust your opponent's balls. ... A great new game from Meego." Gads, I remember this commercial!
  (tags: games schadenfreude wordplay)
• Code Sorcery Workshop: Pukka
  The wonderful Pukka del.icio.us utility has been upgraded, with duplicate checking and other features. Recommended and well worth the $5 registration fee.
  (tags: del.icio.us macintosh utility)

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

links for 2007-01-30

• DOCTOR WHO - Wanted: Sex-mad Britney clones
  "Doctor Who writer Russell T. Davies has targeted pop princess Britney Spears as a desirable guest star to feature in the next series of the science fiction show." No. No no no no no no no no no no no no. Oh hell no. No.
  (tags: doctorwho)
• Features : Radar Online: Prank Call to Arms
  They want you. They want you. They want you as a new recruit.
  (tags: gay humor)
• My basement Mac collection - a photoset on Flickr
  Dayum! Next time I start to think I have a few too many pieces of antique Apple hardware cluttering up my basement, I'm gonna go back and look at this.
  (tags: macintosh)
• Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 Gag Reel - Google Video
  Frakkin' sweet, for the Gaeta moments if nothing else. But there's more. So much more.
  (tags: battlestargalactica)

Saturday, January 6, 2007

links for 2007-01-06

• Macworld: Mac OS X Hints: Sleep your Mac via Mail
  Cool. Now I can finally pretend I'm defeating the Borg in "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II." If my computer was the Borg, that is. You know what, this whole analogy really sucks. Well, this technique is still cool.
  (tags: macintosh)

Friday, January 5, 2007

links for 2007-01-05

• // trevorlittle.com - nyc photos - Power Washing 188 Suffolk St.
  New York is dirrrrrrrty. [via Cuddles]
  (tags: nyc)
• Joe. My. God.: Gay Sheep Debacle Unravels
  [this, on the other hand, is good] (See earlier: hands off gay sheep.)
  (tags: gay)
• Help, My Hard Drive is Full! - TechDigs.net
  How do you conserve precious space if, say, a Mac laptop is your primary machine? Some ideas here.
  (tags: organizerporn macintosh)
• Creating a password to convince yourself you have traveled back in time@Everything2.com
  Believe it or not, this has been very much on my mind recently, for reasons I will not discuss.
  (tags: timetravel)

Wednesday, August 9, 2006

links for 2006-08-09

• TubeSock - Rip videos from YouTube
  "TubeSock converts YouTube's native FLV file format into H.264, MP4, or MP3 files." You can do it from the command line, but $15 is a small price to pay for convenience. Nifty.
  (tags: youtube macintosh utility)
• YouTube - Lorchcast
  Oh, this poor fella. In television, once things go wrong, they tend to domino. (This is from a hometown station I used to work with, way back in the day, so it's particularly painful to watch.)
  (tags: television bloopers khqa schadenfreude)
• Hazzard Ahead
  Johnny Hazzard has a weblog. As if I needed another reason to drool. How can you not get behind a guy (ahem) who looks like that and has Elaine Stritch singing "The Ladies Who Lunch" as his theme song? Hubba hubba Johnny.
  (tags: johnnyhazzard)
• Subtraction: Feeding the Hand That Fed Me
  Khoi Vinh modifies the new "standard" syndication icon and offers it up to the world. Just like the Times, ma!
  (tags: rss syndication webdesign icons)

Tuesday, May 9, 2000

I like dyke

FREE SAFETY: More than 100 free Macintosh screen savers.

LIFE <META> (INTRAMURAL EDITION): I use the word irreverent all the time. In fact, last year SLAM! Magazine named me the "Most Irreverent Man in St. Louis". » Much to my surprise and chagrin, my true color is orange, which means my iBook is the wrong color. » I listen to Rockapella all the time. » Check out metafilter.net. I Matt Haughey. » FWIW: In a box in a storage cubicle somewhere in the metropolitan St. Louis area, I have a button fashioned after the old Eisenhower campaign buttons that says "I Like Dyke." I bought it from two women at the March on Washington for Gay & Lesbian Rights in 1987. Everything old is "new" again. » Number seven is my favorite reason.

Sunday, July 19, 1998

For the last time

"I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain." — Carol Leifer

"Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents." — William Coronel

"I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else." — Lily Tomlin

For the Last Time: Yep, the skeptics—which included just about everyone except some of the more gullible on-line and traditional media—were right. The "Our First Time" soon-to-be-former-virgins were hoaxters after all. The site's host ISP posted a wrap-up. (On the other hand, we may yet discover that even the hoax was a hoax and all a publicity grab by the ISP. Wouldn't surprise me in the least.) "Mike" is still a hottie, though.

Incidentally, the controversial site's supposed brain-man was Ken Tipton, a former St. Louis area actor (or, as his bio avers: "[He] grew up in the small St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, Missouri.")

Meanwhile, Time Magazine finally got around to running the look at Missouri transgender politics that reporter John Cloud visited here months ago to research, featuring fellow PREP board member Shannon Ware. [Time]

There may be redress for we spam-drenched wretches yet: Seattle man makes spammer pay [Seattle Times]

Sam Williams suggests Hollywood take on the potential armageddon behind Y2K. Let us hope that Sandra Bullock is available. [Upside]

MacWindows has turned out to be a particularly useful site for helping my marketing Macs survive and thrive in the realm of COCA's peecee/Novell network. Props, too, to Three Macs and a Printer.

Site News: Some added info on the bio page, the reprise of a popular sidebar from the original BradLands site, and general tweaking all around. Oh yeah, and despite the fact I want to keep these pages quick to load, I'm experimenting with the graphic header and other bits here and there. Thoughts?