Announcing a new innovation competition for undergraduates at Georgia Tech! … [Read more...]
Selectrics
November 1, 2008 by
Just put six Selectric II correcting typewriters out for trash pickup. Sad. Sold one, gave one away, no one would take the remaining six. They used to be the kind of the hill. Now they're just scrap. (But they STILL have the best-feeling keyboards in history.) … [Read more...]
Random Quotes WebApp for iPhone
October 29, 2008 by
A while back, I posted the code for my "random quote of the day" widget for Blogger/Blogspot. Now I've tweaked it a bit to make it into a Web app for the iPhone (or iPod Touch). If you're reading this from your iPhone, try it now at http://tr.im/ipquote! … [Read more...]
Mac OS X Time Machine advice
October 27, 2008 by
Apple's Time Machine has saved my bacon a couple of times. It's not the only backup strategy I use (I'm trying to store more in the cloud), but it's a darned useful one. When switching to my new MacBook Pro, syncing up with my ten months of old Time Machine backups got hopelessly confused. And I had wanted to repartition that external disk … [Read more...]
What if Apple built an alarm clock?
October 18, 2008 by
So I'm in a hotel room this morning, planning to sleep late, and I was awakened by the hotel room alarm clock at 7:00 am. It was dark. I hadn't set it the night before, so I had no clue as to where the buttons and switches were positioned. I hammered on the top, I slid switches on the side, I seriously contemplated just smashing the damned thing … [Read more...]
iPhone Typos
October 13, 2008 by
The key to typing quickly on the iPhone is to trust the autocorrect. I'm faster on this slab of glass than I was on my beloved Treo keyboard. But sometimes the autocorrect guesses wrong. Unless I get involved in the Christmas tree business, I'm unlikely to ever type the word 'fir.'. But I type 'for' all the time. And I can't imagine ever … [Read more...]
eBooks
September 27, 2008 by
The late, great Jim Baen used to talk about "ludic readers" and how they would transform his business of book publishing. He used the term to distinguish something that people would use to read for fun, rather than things they were paid to read (like technical manuals, 10-K filings, etc.).I always thought it was a silly name. "Ludic" means … [Read more...]
Turn your iPhone into a Digital Wallet
July 10, 2008 by
I just counted. I have 21 plastic cards in my wallet... credit cards, ID cards, membership cards, you name it. And there are four barcode tags dangling from my car keys.Being a geek, I keep all the relevant numbers encrypted in my Palm Treo (using SplashID... I really hope they're doing an iPhone version!), but rattling off a ten-digit number … [Read more...]
Random Quote Widget for Blogspot
May 8, 2008 by
Now it's time for descent into geekery as a distraction from other things...I have a lot of quotations collected, and I'm always harvesting more. I've collected them in various databases over time, from hand-rolled FileMaker to things like EagleFiler and Yojimbo.The problem was that, if I wanted to share them with anyone, I had to somehow export … [Read more...]
Workflow
March 24, 2008 by
Someone on Skribit asked "How has Google changed your workflow?" … [Read more...]
