Monthly Archives: May, 2006
Solution To All Of Life’s Problems: Pliers
Another appropriate title for this post would be: Torx Screws Are Evil
A second line for that other appropriate title would be: Especially if you don’t have a really tiny torx screwdriver.
What do you do when you get a brand new MacBook, with user-replaceable hard disk only to find out that once said user-replaceable drive has [...]
MATLAB on a MacBook 13″
As of late I’ve been looking for an optimal solution for running MATLAB on my brand new MacBook. I’ve tried running things natively under Windows & Linux as well as in Parallels for both, and the concept of rebooting ad-nauseum or working in a rooted (ie, having an operating system with a root window [...]
MacBook Power Brick Whine? – Make It Play Scales!
So, I’d written off the whole whining issue that everyone’s been talking about on Apple’s new portables, since I’ve now had a MacBook 13″ for about a week and had heard nothing along the lines of what people had been complaining about emanating from my new white bundle of joy. Well, the same still [...]
Web 2.1 is Now!
So, someone decided to use XMLHttpRequest to implement a server-side blink tag. Fully standards compliant. The future is yesterday.
Amazon Sleeping with Microsoft
Here’s one I’m not sure I entirely get, though I’m sure it had to do with some sort of financial compensation:
Amazon is dumping Google in powering search results for A9 in favor of Live.com (operated by Microsoft).
I would assume that this has something to do with Microsoft offering some sort of financial deal to Amazon [...]
QuickAdd for Google Calendar FFX Extension
Extremely awesome little hack here. I think this officially makes Google Calendar a “killer app” for me. Basically what it lets you do is bring up a little box with a keystroke and type in things like “Running with John at 8am monday” hit return and have an event “Running with John” added [...]
