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Learning iOS Development – Day 3 & 4: Lynda

JT — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:17:59 +0000

It’s been awhile, but I decided to take up this subject (yet again.) Although I do still have access to Safari Online, a friend of mine lent me his copy of iPhone SDK Essential Training DVD from Lynda.com for comparison. I spent the last two days watching the video. It’s just under 7 hours, but [...]

Hackintosh Rig – Reloaded with Lion

JT — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:29:23 +0000

My Hackintosh - reloaded with Lion using UniBeast.

Microsoft Love — Finally

JT — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:06:50 +0000

Windows Live Office -> Windows SkyDrive: I signed up for the Windows Live Office when it first came out because I was testing all sorts of cloud based apps at the time. ... While there seems to be some complaints online about this move, for the limited uses I have found for Live Office, I'm just happy about going from 5GB of free disk space to 25GB!!

Sharing via iTunes Playlists

JT — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:29:44 +0000

Now that I've pretty much ended my quest for a great calendaring solution for the family, I've turn my attention to sharing our media. Like a lot of families, I have a ton of music, pictures, and video scattered acrossed a number of machines. I've corralled a lot of this data to one SAMBA share on my Ubuntu server. This is good - as now I have one central place for all data that my family can now avoid on purpose. "What server?", "uh, where can I find that movie/song/pic?", etc. No matter, I will win them over soon (well... eventually.)

In any event, my wife asked me last night to put some new songs on her iPhone as all she has is older music - her musice dated back to circa 2009. Biting back the first sarcastic comment that came to mind ("You can find it on the server.."), I said sure. This little exercise was going to eat through my evening. Just because everything is in one location, everyone has their own iTunes database and none of them are up to date with the contents of collection. I thought I would have to blow away her iTunes database and import everything in the library again, or I would have to at least manually add every new song. However, I found a neat little procedure that save a ton of time and thought I would share it.

OS X 10.6.3 Updates

JT — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:49:14 +0000

Ahhh.. thought I forgot about you? No, no, my poor little blog, I haven't forgotten. Look what I got. Yes, it's new content. Yes, I know how much you like new content.

Seriously, it's been some time since I've updated the blog. Shame on me, there were a number of opportunities that were perfect for the blog. I'll start small and see if I can keep additional content coming. Out of the gate - I'd like to talk about my OS X 10.6.3 upgrade.

IntelliType Pro and IntelliPoint for the Mac version 7.01

JT — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:37:58 +0000

! It's finally here! IntelliType and IntelliPoint v7.01 is now 64-bit compatible with Snow Leopard. I can finally go back to my Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 setup.

The only issue is that it took literally 30 minutes to find the software. Microsoft's site kept pointing me to an older version (v6.x) of the software no matter what combination of keyboard/mouse/desktop options I selected. The first 50 websites I found on Google pointed me back to Microsoft's site.

I was able to find it finally on softpedia's site, and it was mis-labeled. Here is the link. The page is labeled as Microsoft IntelliType v7.01, but it contains the desktop programs. This means that both IntelliType Pro and IntelliPoint are included in the package.

Fixed the Dell Mini 9 Keyboard Itch

JT — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:46:09 +0000

If you've played with one of these netbooks or have one, you'll know that the quote/apostrophe key is located in the wrong spot when compared to normal US keyboards. ...In the picture below, you'll see I named my Swapped. Not only will this allow you to switch between different keyboard types, this also will put another icon on the already tight Menu bar.

Daddy’s Got a “New” Keyboard

JT — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:36:51 +0000

It took me a week to remember but I did remember that about two years ago I bought a USB Bluetooth dongle along with a bluetooth headset. ... Plus the two aging iMacs in the kid's study room have been shutoff since they got laptops, thus their bluetooth keyboards were not in use...

Adventures in Snow Leopard

JT — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:41:51 +0000

Overall, I'm impressed with Snow Leopard. I waited a while before upgrading as I wasn't too much in a hurry to upgrade everyone in my house to the next "service pack" (as those Windoze fanboys call it.) That changed of course when I downloaded the newest iTunes v9. I couldn't browse the iTunes store without upgrading my main machine to at least 10.5.8 and Safari 4. I decided that if I was going to go through the effort I might as well go with the latest and greatest.

Dell Mini 9 – Upgraded to 10.5.8

JT — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:53:18 +0000

Wow.. I just upgraded my Dell Mini 9 to OS X 10.5.8 and I'm just completely overjoyed on how uneventful the upgrade went. Almost not worth writing a blog entry about it. I made a backup of my DellEFI v1.2 alpha 5 application, upgraded to 10.5.8 via Software update, re-installed the DellEFI, reboot. Done.

Although it seems like a lot of people have starting doubting the usefulness of these netbooks, I can tell you I get a lot of mileage out of mine yet. It now has a permanent home in my Go-Bag.