Monster Blog - "macintosh"

• Luke, Come To The Darkside

  Ok, now I've done it.

  December 11, 2004 macintosh

• Print To Postscript File And Convert To PDF

  Here's a neat little trick that you might find useful for your Classic only applications, like Tape, and printing. If you have the LaserWriter driver selected as your printer in Chooser, when you tell a document to print, you can select "File" as the destination to save a Postscript file to your hard drive.

  October 17, 2004 macintosh

• Solution For Mac IE5 CSS Problem?

  Are there any CSS web designers out there who can offer a guy a bit of advice? This problem is bugging me:

  August 29, 2004 macintosh

• Some UNIX on Mac OS X Resources

  Following up on the idea of configuring Apache with virtual hosts on your own computer, you will probably need to install some extra software to more closely resemble your web host.

  August 9, 2004 macintosh

• Motorola V600, Wireless Internet, Bluetooth And The Macintosh

  As previously mentioned, I have a new Motorola V600 cellphone and I got it setup with all the Wireless Internet fun you could hope for from Cingular Wireless, including getting it to talk to my Mac PowerBook via Bluetooth. It was quite a struggle, let me tell you. I'm going to document the salient points here so maybe others can learn something. If you're a Windows or Linux user, it doesn't mean there isn't good stuff here, it just means not all of it will be applicable. There's probably some useful stuff here for Cingular Wireless customers with other phones too. I should mention that I'm in Los Angeles. The settings should be the same here as in other parts of the country, at least for GPRS, but who knows.

  July 31, 2004 macintosh

• BBEdit And Finding Differences Between Two Documents

  Last night I decided to update the templates for my website. Movable Type basically uses webpages with custom variables to generate the pages on the website. MT3.01D was released a couple weeks ago. I upgraded the server software then but nothing else. There were several fixes to the way comments worked so I knew that I was going to have to update my templates if I wanted to use those. Plus they were supposedly truly XHTML 1.0 Transitional which the 3.0 versions were not.

  July 23, 2004 macintosh

• The Best $5 I've Spent

  You know those commercials where they say, "What can you get for a buck?" and then some ex-athlete proceeds to inform the public of benefits of dialing 7 extra digits for long distance phone calls? Well I often feel like, "What can you get for 5 bucks?"

  July 18, 2004 macintosh

• Discount On BBEdit

  I have talked about how cool I think BBEdit is. Bare Bones Software, the makers of BBEdit, is offering a discount on the software from now through Thursday, July 15. It's $150 instead of the usual $180. Plus you get a free t-shirt.

  July 12, 2004 macintosh

• ISO Macintosh Programmer

  I'm looking to hire a good Macintosh programmer to help me develop a Carbon application that would run in both OS 9 and OS X. Interested people should send me an email by clicking the link in the sidebar. Include a resume and your desired salary. I'll get in touch with you with all the details. You don't have to live in Los Angeles, but I think you would have to live in the US. I don't know how the whole international employee thing would work out. I'll have to check on that.

  July 8, 2004 macintosh

• Strange Things Are Afoot At The Circle K

  I have a day off today. In fact I have this entire weekend off. I went from no work for 3-some-odd months to two weeks straight work including the weekend and it was a bit of a system shock. It’s nice to fart around.

  June 19, 2004 macintosh

• SCSI As You Wanna Be

  Yesterday I finished most of the system upgrade I did on my Pro Tools workstation. I still have a few programs to put back on, but it’s mostly there. Probably the coolest thing about the upgrade has been the new driver for my ATTO ExpressPCI UL3D SCSI card. The new 3.10 driver for Panther is brilliant! Finally we can once again hot-swap hard drives like we used to do under OS 9. It doesn’t work exactly the same way but it is still much faster than a shut down and reboot.

  June 18, 2004 macintosh

• Today Is A Good Day To Upgrade

  Right now I am sitting at my desk in my office watching a little blue bar crawl across the screen of my computer. I’m in the process of upgrading my Macintosh Pro Tools workstation to Panther. The average end user might not realize it but tall these system updates wreak havoc with those of us in speciality hardware and software situations. Apple basically rewrote the underlying audio framework when they made OS X 10.3. Suddenly those of us with laptops or home computers were enjoying all the cool benefits that Panther brought, but couldn’t use it on our Digital Audio Workstations because nothing was compatible.

  June 16, 2004 macintosh

• Another Problem With PulpFiction

  Ok, maybe I'm not using the program the way it's supposed to be used. Here's what I'm doing. I've subscribed to all the feeds I want. PulpFiction automatically checks for new posts every 30 minutes. They are downloaded to the Inbox on my machine. I read the posts and the ones I don't want to keep, I delete by hitting the delete key. For some reason though, I those same posts that I've read and deleted are sometimes re-downloaded a few hours or even a day later. It's very strange. It's not the end of the world. But it's a bit annoying.

  June 9, 2004 macintosh

• More On RSS Feeds

  I've been using PulpFiction Lite for several days now to keep up with the websites I read a lot and it's working out great. Once I got over the initial onslaught of hundreds and hundreds of posts to slog through it's fairly easy to stay up to date. One super important thing for people to do though: do not subscribe to more sites than you can handle. That was my initial problem. I added all the sites I read regularly to the ones that were already in the program and I got so overwhelmed so quickly that I almost gave up.

  June 8, 2004 macintosh

• Feed Me

  I'm starting to look into RSS newsfeed aggregation. I know big words. Basically it's kind of like the list of news stories you get on a lot of web portal homepages like My Yahoo, Earthlink's Start Page, MSN, etc. Instead of reloading a thousand times a day all those websites that you read regularly to see if there's a new article, you subscribe to the RSS feed and use a news aggregator to do the checking for you. Like checking your email. You get a little synopsis of a new post when it's available, and clicking on "Read More" takes you to the website to read the whole post.

  June 3, 2004 macintosh

• A Few Things I've Noticed

  So I've only been playing with this a few hours. This isn't the be-all, end-all of the RSS newfeed thing.

  June 3, 2004 macintosh

• I Heart Microsoft

  Yesterday was nominated "Fun With Windows XP Day!"

  April 18, 2004 macintosh

• Thank You, Easter Bunny. Bawk. Bawk.

  Did everyone have a nice Easter?

  April 12, 2004 macintosh

• Keep On Movin'

  I'm still working away, behind the scenes, on my new version of Monsters from the Id. The first release probably won't look much different from what you're seeing right now, but trust me... it is. I have to say that I'm very impressed with Movable Type. It's a very slick system. And so many people make use of it that there is a lot of information online about tips and tricks that you can do.

  April 12, 2004 macintosh

• Stupid Windows

  Stupid IE6.

  March 30, 2004 macintosh

• Ten Years, Man! Ten Years.

  I've spent the last two days learning XHTML and CSS. Actually I didn't spend ALL day both days working on this. I had a very enjoyable several hours on Saturday in a park in the mountains here in Burbank--I'm still a little red from the experience. I read a lot more in the Robert Jordan book I've been working on, "The Eye Of The World." Watched a little TV last night.

  March 29, 2004 macintosh