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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 14th, 2007
Yesterday I wanted to update the firmware in my Parrot EasyDrive Bluetooth carkit. Seems simple enough to do it using VMWare Fusion. I started up Fusion, chose the option to connect the “Bluetooth USB device” and found that Windows didn’t have the driver. Crap, I remember having to do something with BootCamp to get the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 14th, 2007
My wife and I realized awhile ago that most of the shows we were watching/recording on TiVo had to do with crime/murder such as CSI: Miami, NCIS, Without a Trace, etc. While the shows are quite engaging, they are violent. I wasn’t sleeping well and my wife suggested that our TV viewing habits could be [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 14th, 2007
For years, I’ve seen references to “indie” (independent) software developers, but never considered myself one. I’ve never had to rely on sales of my own software as I’ve been an independent contractor without my own products (that brought in any significant amount of income) for almost five years. However, this past year, ReceiptWallet has started [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 14th, 2007
One of the things I “lost” when I shutdown my server and stopped running my Asterisk PBX was the ability to redirect calls to my phone to my computer in case I was out of town or the like. When we travelled back east last month, we stayed with my uncle who had really high [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 13th, 2007
After fighting with trying to get the amount of time since a user has done something with the system, I’ve determined that CGEventSourceSecondsSinceLastEventType is broken. The documentation indicates that calling it like:
CGEventSourceSecondsSinceLastEventType(kCGEventSourceStateCombinedSessionState, kCGAnyInputEventType)
will tell me how many seconds since the user last moved the mouse, touched the keyboard, etc. The docs say:
The various system and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 12th, 2007
When Leopard came out, I blogged about a bug in Fujitsu’s ScanSnap Manager software. I was unable to get anywhere with Fujitsu and almost forgot about it. However, today in trolling through their website, I saw that they had an article specifically about the software running under Leopard along with a download to a new [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 10th, 2007
Bank of America installed new ATMs sometime this year which, for the most part, are pretty user friendly. They’re touch screen based (along with a physical keypad) and automatically scan in checks. You have to insert the check in the correct direction or the ATM spits it out because it can’t OCR the check. While [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 10th, 2007
For years I’ve complained to my father about the poor quality of HP’s Mac scanner software. He always brushed it off as my standard are pretty high and it would appear (to outsiders) that I don’t like many programs. (There are some programs I really like and there are some that just suck; yes, my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 7th, 2007
As I’ve previously written, I started making the move to turn off some of the services running on my server. Last week, I managed to move the last service (SlimServer) running on my server somewhere else; in this case to my AppleTV which is quieter and more energy efficient than my monster server. So, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 7th, 2007
The other day I had an ad (yes, an ad) on XM for Radio Hanukkah. Cool, I thought, and tried to tune it in. After a few false starts (I kept getting a message that I wasn’t authorized to play the stream and then online streaming stopped completely), I was able to tune it in. [...]
