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 [...]

About a month ago, Luis took a week off from his day job to work on WebnoteHappy full time. During that week he started a series of blog posts on his blog, MacHappy, under the category, The Life (see df). Luis and I have become good friends and are in similar mac dev boats (I’m [...]

Last we heard, my fourth iPod was on its way. Well, that one has been replaced and now number 5 is here. What happened to number 4? Things were looking good. I received it on a Saturday morning and it still had some charge in it. I plugged it in, synced it and let it [...]

My curiosity often costs me a lot of time. My most recent expense started when I subscribed to the coding monkeys blog and read their post about how SubEthaEdit (what a great icon) fully supports being an external editor for Xcode. I don’t plan to collaborate, but I had to try it. It’s kind of [...]

I both mirror my drive with SuperDuper! and I backup some miscellaneous stuff using Apple’s Backup. One of the miscellaneous things I backup with Backup is my address book. I also sync my address book with .mac such that my PowerBook, my iMac and my mini for work all have the things I need right [...]

After I got my Intel iMac I was presented with the problem of needing to work on the same sources from two different machines. At first I thought I’d just keep two copies and use some sort of syncing software. That quickly showed itself to be problematic and I aborted that plan. Next I tried [...]

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 [...]

On January 30th I purchased a video iPod. Since then, I’ve held three different video iPods, each were considered “mine”. Each of these were enjoyable for about one day. At the end of that enjoyable day I realized the battery life was horrible. As soon as I notice and come to terms with the poor [...]

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 [...]