I am now the proud owner of a shiny new (well, new to me) 2016 MacBook Pro, which is so much faster than my previous MBP that it isn't even funny. The programs, they all just open! My trackpad, it works! I am no longer using a power cord held together by electrical tape ( Read more... )

I am feeling more like a human being now, so maybe later today I can start to tackle these comment/email replies. I think I have my brain back, for the most part. (Which is good. I miss writing fic. I am behind on my writing goals!)

Anyway! Birthday was very good, other than the being-sick part!
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So my IRC client of the past, uh, six or seven years has been Colloquy, because it was the first thing I found when I typed "mac IRC client" into Google at some point, but I've never really been very happy with it. And also it hasn't been updated for years, so the chance of it getting features that I want is slim. But, you know, it was free, ( Read more... )

So I have one of those Apple Time Capsules. Mine is clearly on the way out, as a couple months ago it stopped backing anything up no matter how much I reset it; it just kept insisting it wasn't on the network. I was getting more and more concerned about not having any working backups (well, other than my writing, which is on Dropbox) and getting ( Read more... )

For the past few days I've been playing around with Imzy, which is a social-networking community-building site of the sort that fandom could probably have some fun at. It was created by a former Reddit admin guy and as far as I can tell, wants to be sort of like Reddit, only not, you know, a wretched hive of scum and villainy. I can see the fandom ( Read more... )

You know, I didn't think getting a smartphone was going to make that much difference to me personally. I thought, "Well, I already have an iPod touch and a phone that I can text people on, and so isn't that what I'd use an iPhone for?" In the past two days I have used: the alarm function, a kitchen timer (set by Siri), the Kindle app (hooray books ( Read more... )

Apparently I eat computer power cords ( Read more... )

So the other day gelishan IMed me and said that she was signing up for Pinboard and could I tell her how to get the browser extension to show up correctly. My response was "What do you mean, browser extension?" I have been taking up my Valuable Screen Real Estate all this time with the bookmarklets, and so now I just have a handy little pin icon! With a ( Read more... )

For those of you who use Goodreads (me! me me!), how do you use your to-read status? Do you use it for books you actually have in hand and are going to get around to reading next? Or do you use it for books you want to read someday whether or not you own them? I ask because I have a giant text file of Books That Sounded Cool That People Recced ( Read more... )

Item the first: I know it sounds weird to say that I am enjoying a search engine, but I am really enjoying my searching experience since I switched my default search engine to DuckDuckGo. I say this not only because of their committment to privacy -- though that is reassuring -- but also because of their bang shortcuts. I am not quite old enough on ( Read more... )