Another semi-useless spot on the web…
Posted in Main on Jan 19th, 2008
you step onto an elevator and there is an employee that says “count to 3 and hope this goes up”. Well, that’s what happened today when we were out at the San Diego Wild Animal Park today. We go on their new elevator (today was the first day that it was open), when it wouldn’t [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 19th, 2008
MacHeist is back with another bundle of software. In case you’re not familiar with MacHeist, it is a really well developed series of games that when you solve gives you free software and at the end of all the “missions” you get a discount on the full bundle. The free apps are an interesting marketing [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 18th, 2008
I’ve started to do some work on the ReceiptWallet UI based on some ideas I got this week as well as customer feedback. I found that I personally had a number of “recent” smart collections, so I decided to make them a standard part of the interface. Also, I used some features of Leopard to [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 18th, 2008
As I mentioned in a previous post, UPEK has their software written in Prague and that sometimes leads to odd wording of dialogs. I installed their latest software today and had to chuckle at this dialog. Better not harm yourself!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2008
As I was driving home from the airport, I was stopped at the light to turn on Pacific Highway when I see a minivan making a right turn. I looked at the license plate and saw that it was K6JVM; license plates like these are the call letters for an amateur radio license. While I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2008
No, I didn’t commit any crime, I ran through the airport like in the old Hertz commercial. I left for the airport quite early for my 12:10 pm flight back home to San Diego just to be on the safe side. I figured I could work at the airport as I’d be there quite early. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2008
Now that I’m done with Macworld 2008, here are my reactions.
Apple’s announcements were pretty much snoreville.
The MacBook Air is an interesting device for some, but for me, it is lacking. I need a machine that is faster than my current 2.16 GHz MacBook Pro (Core Duo) and has a significantly larger hard drive (I have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2008
The Expo that is going on at the same time as Macworld is the United Motorcoach Association Expo. I saw the sign in front of Moscone North that detailed their hotel shuttle schedule. It listed the hotels it goes to and one of them was the Marriott. You have to be real lazy to not [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2008
This week I’ve written a lot of posts and noticed that the “Previous” link didn’t show up at the bottom causing people to potentially miss some of my excellent work! I finally took a look and discovered that one of my Wordpress plugins (Adhesive) caused the issue. I installed this plugin right after I ran [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2008
I installed the software for the IRIScan Express and was not surprised to see that it isn’t TWAIN compliant. However, the ReadIRIS software that comes with it DOES use TWAIN compliant scanners if they exist. In poking around, I see that the software opens up a bundle specifically for the scanner. (I used a tool [...]
