I’m thrilled to have all my calendars centrally located and synced after all these years, I really am. But there is one minor downside: email alarms. To explain: let’s say I have a calendar called “Birthdays” (which, in fact, I do). That calendar lives on a server (Google’s, to be precise), and all my computers [...]
I’ve been tasked with building my first ever, real live web application. And I’m loving it. It’s a classic but fairly simple HTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL deal. Perfect for learning the sort of basic web programming that I’ve been wanting to learn for quite a while, and just the kind of puzzle that gets me excited. In the [...]
I’ve been using the latest Firefox Beta pretty much exclusively now for about a week. It’s been surprisingly stable and a bit faster as well. But it also has a surprising new feature: tear-off tabs. This is something that Safari’s had over Firefox for some time, and it’s something I’ve actually longed for. It’s often [...]
There’s a fascinating discussion that ties nicely into into my recent post on workflows, that’s recently picked up since Doug Bowman decided to leave Google. Mr. Bowman is a designer, and has had some issues regarding Google’s priorities. The general takeaway from all this has been that Google places engineers’ data and statistics above the [...]
As I mentioned a while back, I recently switched to a new web hosting provider, Media Temple. I wanted to provide a bit more detail as to why. About a month-and-a-half ago I was uploading some new content to my personal site, which hosts a fair amount of video and audio for download, on my [...]
UPDATE: It looks like there’s actually a better way to extend an Airport network than the one I’ve outlined in this article. A few people have written in to tell me that they’ve had great success using the configuration “wizard” available in the Airport Express Utility. I haven’t tried using this myself, but it does [...]
In my ongoing adventures to move all my mail to Gmail there have been a few snags. One of them is the fact that Gmail only sucks down POP mail, which one of my many numerous email hosts does not support. The other problem has been one of management. Gmail is becoming the de facto [...]
So if you’ve been obsessively checking the site tonight — and you really should have been — you may have noticed a bit of unscheduled downtime. This was just me trying to be clever and failing miserably. See, I’ve moved to a new web hosting provider, and I wanted desperately to make the transistion seamlessly. [...]
I had my first ever Planes, Trains and Automobiles type experience this year. And I owe it all to Thrifty car rental.
Dave Caolo over at TUAW writes: “For me, the best part of buying my original iPhone was the activation process.” And you know what? I totally frickin’ — yes, I said frickin’ — agree. One of the most ingenious achievements of the iPhone was pain-free activation. Apple removed that feature in a trade-off that enabled [...]