Monthly Archives: March 2009

American Idol Switcheroo on iTunes

If you watched Idol last week, you were treated to a bunch of mediocre renditions of classic Motown songs, plus a stunningly beautiful re-imagining of Smokey Robinson’s “Tracks of My Tears.” Adam Lambert is the one who pulled off that … Continue reading

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Help Me With iPhone Dev Graphics Question, Please

Usually when I learn a new programming language or framework, I am plagued by the fact that I can’t think of anything to build with it, or I can only think of things that are too difficult. With iPhone development, … Continue reading

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ExportToArchive *Does* Work With iPhoto ’09

I just installed the iLife ’09 suite, which includes version 8.0 of iPhoto. While I haven’t had time to try out any of the new features, I did check to see if my ExportToArchive plugin still worked. I’m happy to … Continue reading

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My favorite line from ‘They Live’

This is a horribly cheesy, yet oddly fun movie starring the wrestler Roddy Piper. It boasts one of the longest, most tedious, fight scenes *ever* in a film. My favorite line features Roddy walking into a bank full of concealed … Continue reading

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Thomas Interviews Me Using Our New Flip HD Camcorder

We got a new Flip Video MinoHD Camcorder yesterday from Amazon. It’s a very neat little device. It records in HD and holds up to 60 minutes of video on its solid state storage. It attaches to your computer, Mac … Continue reading

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Huzzah! MiddleClickClose Working In Safari 4!

08/31/2009 Update: For Snow Leopard compatibility, see here. 08/13/2009 Update: It should now work with all future versions of Safari without having to update it again. Read about the change here. 06/09/2009 Update: Apple released the production version of Safari … Continue reading

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Snow In Georgia 2009

On March 1, 2009, we here in the South finally got some snow. In fact, at my house, we got loads of snow. I took a bunch of photos at three different times during the day to document it. The … Continue reading

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I Have The Ears Of A Teenager – Ouch!

Supposedly only teenagers can hear the sound that is played for the test linked above. But I heard it, and it hurt my ears something fierce. Not fun at all.

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