Archive for the 'Apple' Category

Noooooooooo!

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

It looks like my dreams of replacing my Dell with a new MacBook are (temporarily?) shattered. [Via DaringFireball.net]

Fake Video with iTunes Chapter Markers

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

The other day as I walked home from the gym, listening to my iPod Nano, I started to feel jealous of the iPod Video owners. I love my Nano, but it would be cool to be able to watch video on it from time to time. In spite of having a pretty good color screen, […]

Magical Code

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

Back in my first days at Apple, I was privileged to work with brilliant engineers (and a few idiots, lest I get too nostalgic). One of these brilliant types, who I might go so far as to describe as a mentor, had a mantra he’d throw out when anybody started whining about the difficulty of […]

Apple Strides in on a Banana

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

I’ve recently installed Mint, a statistics gathering package, on my web site. It’s basically a souped up referral/hit recording package, similar to what Google is now offering for free. Why pay for Mint when I can get the Julep for free? Several reasons. First, Google is not accepting new users for the service right now. […]