Was just chatting with Howard, who has literally written the book on Quicksilver, and was trying to figure out why he finds so much more utility out of Quicksilver's keyboard triggers than I do...  I find myself using the "Command Mode" in most of my interactions with Quicksilver, but Howard makes extensive use of keyboard triggers.  We were ( Read more... )

While it certainly wasn't the nerdiest thing I have ever done, waking up at 6am on Friday morning to get an iPhone 3G is up there. I got to the Chestnut Hill mall around 6:40am and was approximately 50-60 people deep in the line. The store was not opening until 8am, so I sat down on the floor, busted out my laptop, and caught up on my RSS feeds, ( Read more... )

My MacBook Air finally arrived on Friday, after more than three weeks of anxious anticipation. This machine is replacing my old 1.67Ghz Powerbook G4, which now belongs to coco_b. Now that each of us has our own Mac, we are freed from the scourge of Windows. Corinna was reluctant to "switch" while she was finishing her masters, fearing learning new ( Read more... )

I got my Powerbook back from the Apple Store today...  Thank god for AppleCare...   They not only finished it in less time than they quoted me, but they also noticed that my optical drive was louder than it should be, figured it was close to failing, and replaced that on their own as well...   In an ideal world, hard disks wouldn't shit the bed, ( Read more... )

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Continuing to be very forward-looking, Nine Inch Nails has released the GarageBand multi-track files for their new single Survivalism.  The best part is the little tidbit at the end of the post over at the NIN site:

No strings attached.  Similar to what we did with "The Hand that Feeds" and
"Only", you now have the ability to completely reconstruct/ ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if this is documented anywhere, but I stumbled upon a cool keyboard shortcut in Firefox 2.0.  Control-Shift-T will restore (un-close) the last tab you closed.  There is Mac version of this shortcut too, I think it's Apple-Shift-T, but I don't have a Mac handy and I can never remember the names of their stupid meta keys, so I'm not 100

I had a great time in Rochester for the CSH Welcome Back Party, but I think I might be skipping future Welcome Back parties... More and more of my friends are leaving Rochester, and I know fewer and fewer people who live at CSH. I think this realization comes to all alumni, but I guess I finally hit the sweet spot. It seems that each year I ( Read more... )