I previously mentioned that I store all my receipts on my iDisk with a naming style of: yyyy_mm_dd_NAME_OF_FILE.pdf To get the PDF on to the iDisk I had to say, Print, then “Save as PDF…” and I would manually give it the name with the date prefixed and fumble my way over to iDisk/Documents. This [...]

I’m addicted to Gus‘ Menu Accelerator. I no longer fumble through menu’s looking for what I want. I just start typing. It’s beautiful. The only problem was that it wasn’t a Universal Binary. I’m not sure if Input Managers work through rosetta or not, but even if they did, I wanted a native version. Gus [...]

My family (immediate family + both my mother and my mother in-law) was eating dinner in the Burlington Mall last night in Burlington, MA. Near the end of the meal, our seven month old daughter was getting cranky and needed to be walked. Knowing Apple recently blessed this mall with it’s presence I jumped at [...]

My day is typically broken up into three distinct blocks of time. These include my day job, my family and then my time for roobasoft. The tricky part is finding enough time and minimizing overlap. Here’s what I’ve found that works for me: 1) Go to work. 2) Come home, eat with the family and [...]

Core Image Fun House (found in /Developer/Applications/Graphics Tools/ (requires dev tools installed)) is pretty fun too. If I find enough time / boredom (unlikely) I’d love to do a Core Image Video Fun House (the name would be changed). You can apply Core Image filters to QuickTime, so it seems a necessary free app. Apple [...]

Lately my right wrist has been giving me some hints that it’s being abused (sharp pains). Thankfull it’s just my wrist and not my hands (yet). Ideally I’d just stop using these dang computer things so much and just let things heal themself, but that’s not really an option. So for the past three or [...]

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed Photo Booth. The twins got a kick out of it too.

Yesterday I routinely plugged my 4GB iPod Mini into my PowerBook. Shortly after plugging it in, I see an iPod update box saying that the ipod “Extras@Work” needed the 11-25-2005 (or some date in Nov.) update. I scratched my head thinking “I’ve plugged my iPod in since November”. Then I realized “Extras@Work” was a partition [...]

According to snopes.com, this picture is not only real, but the hippo follows the turtle around and protects it like it’s its mother. It’s funny, interesting and sweet all at the same time. Now if only we could domesticate hippos, maybe we could bring Hungry Hungry Hippos to life!

For a long time I was against seriffed fonts. Verdana and Tahoma ruled the web and Times signified someone who didn’t know about the <font> tag. Recently I’ve admitted to never really giving seriffed fonts a fair chance. All of that has changed. For the past two weeks I’ve been running with “Palatino 14pt” in [...]