Another semi-useless spot on the web…
Posted in Main on Feb 16th, 2010
I was taking a look at programs to go with my new Forerunner 405 and stumbled upon TrailRunner and am fairly impressed. The author says it is donation-ware as he doesn’t have time to support it and people would expect support. That’s fine and dandy, but if you don’t donate, you get a reminder when [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 9th, 2010
I just got a Garmin Forerunner 405 and will be posting a review in the near future. However, I just had to post about the Garmin ANT Agent software. After seeing an erroneous dialog about a new network interface and thinking that the developers need a lesson in Mac development (I can’t connect to the [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 26th, 2010
When I see kiosks with Windows error messages, I usually love to blame Windows as I’m a life long (OK, I was 16 when I got my first Mac) Mac user so Windows is an easy target. Several weeks ago, I was at the San Diego airport picking up my wife and son when I [...]
Posted in Main on Dec 9th, 2009
The other day I needed to put my signature on a PDF, so I used PDFPen to do so, but noticed that I could still move the signature even after saving it and tried to use the “Merge Imprint into Page” option, but found that it didn’t work either (their support confirmed that due to [...]
Posted in Main on Dec 6th, 2009
I was working in Quicken today and decided to online enable some of my accounts as I’ve never done that before. I am using Quicken 2007 for the Mac and have applied the latest “update” (update is in quotes for reasons that will become clear soon.
I checked my bank for the FAQ on what to [...]
Posted in Main on Nov 15th, 2009
Thanks to the efforts of Neil Potter on the XM Radio plugin for the Squeezebox software, I was finally able to update to Squeezebox 7.4 which has many new features over the 7.3 software I was running before.
Once I saw Neil’s email about the new plugin, I quickly updated the Squeezebox software and gave it [...]
Posted in Main on Nov 14th, 2009
When the folks at BusyMac showed BusyCal off at Macworld Expo, I was excited to see an iCal replacement. Unfortunately, at the time, it didn’t handle CalDAV and we were using CalDAV at work. So, I didn’t have a use for it. The BusyMac folks do great work and I’ve known John and Dave for [...]
Posted in Main on Nov 10th, 2009
I’ve always been puzzled by dialogs that have OK, Cancel, and Apply buttons. This has been pretty typical on Windows and relatively uncommon in decent Mac applications. If a preferences window has these 3 buttons, what do they mean? If I click some buttons, hit Apply, and then Cancel, do the changes take effect? If [...]
Posted in Main on Oct 26th, 2009
I’ve never been a Microsoft fan and really haven’t had positive things to say about their software. There are lots of people that are as against Macs as I am against Windows. Today, I attended a Microsoft event where Microsoft was showcasing Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Exchange 2010. I decided to go as [...]
Posted in Main on Oct 24th, 2009
As I’ve written before, Open Directory on Mac OS X doesn’t like it when DNS is messed up. It requires forward and reverse DNS to point to the same place. Our Open Directory server was running fine, but today we moved DNS to a different machine.
I was unable to authenticate using LDAP and saw an [...]
