http://amuyu.com Thoughts on one of those things Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:33:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Still working through the decision process between ecto3 and marsedit. I'm thinking I'm going to stay with ecto3 for now. On the news side: Started working my way through Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass. I'm about through the first 8 chapters. Things to know if you are going to ... http://amuyu.com/archives/78 It's hard to decide between ecto and marsedit. So I'm going to try marsedit for a little bit and see if it does better. Note that Ecto is in late beta for version 3 which is complete rewrite. That means more fun for me while I try both of them out. ... http://amuyu.com/archives/76 Turns out that the Wiimote can be connected to the Mac via bluetooth. Apparently, there's a ton of cool things you can do with this, including control all of the functions on your mac. You can use DarwiinRemote to pair the mote and nunchuck up. With it you can control ... http://amuyu.com/archives/75 A few different places have been raving about Flock. It's a web browser + rss reader + email reader + flickr/facebook/youtube/del.icio.us, and web blogger interface all in one. Not convinced that this is my thing, but worth a try. Posting thing post from there. Also while I'm at it, check this ... http://amuyu.com/archives/74 If you ever had a powerbook, you remember the almost instant sleep that happened when you closed your laptop. Somewhere in the late powerbook or macbook/pro timeframe, Apple changed the behavior from sleep (save contents in RAM only) to hibernate+sleep (save contents in RAM and dump to disk). There's ... http://amuyu.com/archives/73 For those of you that have never heard of Sun's (formerly LSI) SAM/QFS, this is a high performance filesystem that also has high performance HSM capabilities. I've installed this and used it in some very large sites. Amongst the many good things you can do: multiple reader/multiple writer clustered file ... http://amuyu.com/archives/72 So, over the weekend, I stumbled across a Really Good Thing. I've been using VIM and the mac carbon based GUI for VIM for a while now. I've even set it as the default editor for TXT files. However, I found myself right-clicking on files and selecting to use TextEdit ... http://amuyu.com/archives/71 Neal Boortz (boortz.com) is a nationally syndicated radio show host based out of Atlanta. Amongst many other things, he is the author and main proponent of the fair tax law movement. Those of you not familiar with this, I strongly encourage you to read through this. Well, Neal is also ... http://amuyu.com/archives/70 OK - this is one of those things that has bugged me since Leopard came out. I love QuickLook but it failed in the powerpoint department. It seemed like only 1/3 of my PPT and PPS files were visible using QuickLook. Well - this hint at macosxhints takes care of ... http://amuyu.com/archives/69 Merlin Mann might be one of the funniest, but also most insightful people ever. He recently made available the presentation he gave at MacWorld. In this brilliant presentation, he talks about how to keep our time and attention focused. He also gave me another reason to buy a domain ... http://amuyu.com/archives/68