Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

How to take control of paper documents

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Up until about a year ago, my house was covered in stacks of paper and boxes of documents. Most of the documents were not important, but needed to be kept in case they were ever needed. This brought up the next problem: it was nearly impossible to ...

Organizing photos with iPhoto

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

Do you ever get the feeling that you're drowning in photos? I am a big fan of iPhoto, but am generally too lazy to create albums for all of my photos. This means that I am usually browsing the entire library. If I have a general idea ...

MacSaber

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

A completely useless but utterly cool app was was released today that will have the Applecare techs working overtime to repair impact damage. MacSaber Brian Amerige took a video of the saber in action using the MacBook's built-in iSight camera. http://ajw.extendmac.com/blog/?p=364 Technorati Tags: apple, macbook, MacSaber

Apple MacBook benchmarks

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Macworld has performed some basic benchmarks against the new MacBook. The interesting thing that I took from this was that performance was on par with a 1.67ghz G4 PowerBook. Important benchmarks for me will be Eclipse performance and Java compile times to figure out if the MacBook is a viable ...

LinkedIn Profile

Monday, May 8th, 2006

LinkedIn is a fascinating service that allows you to generate a social network based on who you've worked with in the past and what their roles are. Here's my profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/37b/92b

ISP’s block port 25

Saturday, May 6th, 2006

After spending a few hours hacking around with the James mail server and qmail trying to figure out why my server hosted at Rackspace was not accepting my smtp traffic from my home SWBell DSL connection, but would from my work's VPN, I came across this article. In a ...