Turbo.264 OMFG!

I got the ElGato Turbo.264. Wow! For those who don’t know, the Turbo.264 is a little piece of USB connected hardware that offloads a lot of the CPU processing needed for H.264 compression. I’ve seen a number of demos that shows it does indeed make quite a bit of difference, especially on G4 Macs. Since [...]

Get Simpsonized

As you may or may not know Burger King is running a simpsonizer at simpsonizeme.com (Google it). Obviously it’s very popular since I’ve been trying to do it for a week, but it was always too busy. Anyway, I finally got it!

Merlin Mann — Inbox Zero

I live by this religiously! If I do nothing else in my day, I make sure I process through all my e-mail and leave my Inbox empty. 

One Sync to Rule them All

I’ve put a big crack in the nut of syncing multiple Macs with a home rolled system using unison and FreeNAS. As I’ve mentioned before FreeNAS has Unison built in so I’ve designated the FreeNAS as my syncing hub. The folders that I decided to sync were my Documents and Pictures (excluding my iPhoto Library) [...]

FreeNAS Update and Screenshots

Recently I upgraded my FreeNAS to .68. I say recently even though it was a few months ago. Although there was a bug in the Upgdate php page of the last version of FreeNAS which would upload the image but not actually perform the update. I got a fixed version from FreeNAS’s website and everything [...]

Network Fling

Quicksilver has me spoiled. It really does. I’m so used to having something go from my brain to my computers almost seamlessly that I want that for everything. One such need arose the other day when I wanted to transfer something from my PowerBook to my Mini.
Network file sharing is a pain. Yeah, it’s easy, [...]

Contextual Content Management or I don’t want deal with files anymore!

I don’t want to deal with files anymore. I don’t think anyone does. What people want to deal with is content. I want to watch that movie, listen to that song, view that photo of my friends in Bora Bora. I don’t want to find that MP3, that AVI, or that JPEG called IMG_006.jpg in [...]

Get the gist with CallWave

I’ve been a CallWave user pretty much since it was introduced. I didn’t buy the “it’s like visual voicemail” routine. Rather, I liked the idea that it gave me a much easier way to deal with my voicemail—or so I thought. Just for the record I hate voicemail. First there’s the 3 hour preamble from [...]

Post To WordPress with TextEdit

I turned TextEdit into a nice little blogging tool using the Humane Text Service, and the Post to WordPress Automator Action.
It was real simple. I’m using the Humane Text Service to convert Markdown notation into HTML so I can add a little formatting to my post. It gets added to my services menu so when [...]