Flock 1.1.4

I’ve finally found a reason to try out Flock, having a WordPress blog and all that.  I thought this easy one-click blog stuff was just gimmicky but it’s actually pretty sweet.   Write, publish, easy. A Mozilla-based browser engine doesn’t hurt either.  Ok WebKit would be ok too.  IE?  Surely you jest sir!

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Camera + Interwebz = Pwnage

Heh heh heh

Stolen Mac helps nab burglary suspects

Digital Looping

First I heard it with KT Tunstall’s live performance on NBC. As good as that was, I’m now a true believer after watching this jaw dropping piece from David Ford:

Makes me want to dust off my own guitar. Nah, probably never happen.

Remove .mac Icon from iSync (take two)

Already out of date. I found a much better way to achieve the same goal, and wrote an application to do it.

See, I’m not a fan of online programming tutorials. You know the kind, how to write “Hello World” in the new AmazingWidgetLanguage. For many they may be just the thing, but for me, learning or improving my knowledge of a programming language goes much better if I set the bar a little higher than “Hello World“. So I used SyncScrubber to learn how to write a full-blown AppleScript application in Xcode, complete with multiple script files, global variables, all that good stuff. Overkill? Perhaps. But then I accomplished what I wanted to do.

All the gory details available here.

Asus Eee PC + DosBox = Pwnage

Have you seen the Asus Eee PC? No, not just “heard about”, have you actually seen it? It’s a small, elegant, inexpensive, basically a very good value Linux mini laptop. It cost €299 here in “De Peoples Republic, like“.

Joining a wireless network, even WPA2, is a breeze. It’s not the fastest kid on the block but it’s light, efficient, and dammit, it’s cool! The dumbed-down GUI, dubbed “Easy Mode” can (and IMHO should be) quickly replaced with “Advanced Mode”, or good ol’ KDE as it’s more widely known.

For more fun and amusement, and a little bit of nostalgia, install DosBox on it, and then install Windows 3.1 on top of that. How’s that for a blast from the past? (or perhaps simply an abomination, if you prefer).