Posted by zbeckman - December 27th, 2007 Comments Off
This is the way it should be.
When OmniGroup released their new (and absolutely delicious) OmniFocus product, they went into an early closed beta program to involve end users. At first it was opened up to a few hundred, then a few thousand, and over time the beta program grew until it became a public beta. [...]
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Posted by zbeckman - December 23rd, 2007 Comments Off
It’s amazing how much time can be wasted twiddling with every little setting our computers offer us. Maybe that’s why the Mac strikes me as so much more productive than Windows—it’s pretty well locked down so there’s not much opportunity to fiddle around. Nevertheless, people always find a way (as evidenced by CandyBar, a great [...]
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Posted by zbeckman - December 23rd, 2007 Comments Off
Now that we Mac folk have a bit of competition on the virtual operating system front we’re starting to see good things develop. Competition is always good for the market right?
So it would seem, as VMware ships version 1.1 of Fusion. I was eager to try out the Converter application and migrate my virtual Parallels [...]
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Posted by zbeckman - December 22nd, 2007 Comments Off
Wow, the problem with a big site is that a few bits get hidden for a long time. I spent a little time updating the “about” page, the FAQ and my curriculum vitae.
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Posted by zbeckman - December 22nd, 2007 Comments Off
Annoyed at how stacks, the one non-eye candy enhancement to the OS/X dock, is completely useless because it covers the stack icon with whatever is inside the stack? Me too. You might find this little hack handy. If you don’t read Japanese, this might be easier to read though. Beautiful set of icons, too—and definitely [...]
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Posted by zbeckman - December 22nd, 2007 Comments Off
After putting it off for about a year, I finally decided to upgrade WordPress. It was a bit chaotic, so apologies to anyone that noticed all the problems over the past few days. Everything is back together again—most of the trouble came from the host of outdated plugins that I had to upgrade, a handful [...]
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