Technology – Page 19

01/19/201009/22/2013

Tools We Use: Apple Preview

Acrobat Reader has grown from a simple portable document reader to a behemoth. Most of the time you just want to view a PDF. You don’t need all the features of Acrobat when you already have a perfectly good PDF reader in Preview.app.… Read the rest

12/01/200909/22/2013

Tools We Use: ClickToFlash

When it comes to web browser plug-ins I generally try to avoid them. I have to admit that I have four installed in my Safari browser at the moment. There are many reasons to avoid using plug-ins. If you experience problems its is most likely caused by a plug-in.… Read the rest

11/09/200909/22/2013

Windows 7 and Buridan’s Ass

In philosophy there is a paradox called Buridan’s Ass named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan. In this paradox there is an ass placed between two perfect stacks of hay. The ass is paralyzed without a way to choose one stack over the other and starves to death.… Read the rest

11/07/200909/22/2013

Geocities Closing and What It Means for the Cloud

Way back in 1995 GeoCities realized that people would want to get their own content and post it on the web. The tools for doing this were almost non existent. In order to play in this realm you had to understand the technology of HTML and FTP.… Read the rest

11/04/200909/22/2013

F-18 Museum Piece

I overheard a great story on the airport shuttle the other day. I was sharing the bus with some pilots and flight attendants for a regional carrier I do not normally use. The group was starting their day and it was obvious that the were familiar with each other.… Read the rest

09/30/200909/22/2013

Workflow Automator: Translate This

Apple’s Automator is a great to for scripting those activities that you find yourself doing over an over. I needed a way to translate a selection of text. I created this simple Automator workflow to grab the selected text and send it to Google’s Translation service.… Read the rest

09/18/200909/22/2013

The Lost Symbol Traceroute Mystery

Dan Brown’s most recent thriller novel The Lost Symbol we find Robert Langdon on the train of a bad guy who uses Dr. Langdon knowledge of ancient symbols to track down a mysterious talisman of the Masons. Mean while another character is trying to uncover the identity of a web server containing some vital but redacted information.… Read the rest

08/10/200909/22/2013

Syncing Contacts with Google Contacts

One of the nice features of iTunes/Address Book is the ability to Sync with services like Exchange, Yahoo! and Google in addition to Apple’s own MobileMe. I decided to try these services at the risk of really screwing up my Address Book.… Read the rest

08/08/200909/22/2013

iTunes 9 to Support Blu-Ray Finally, Does Anyone Care?

The latest rumor out of Cupertino is that the next version of iTunes, version 9, will support Blu-Ray. This rumor does not seem all that unbelievable. Its one of those rumors that seems obvious. Blu-Ray is the successor to DVD and now that the cost of the players has come down it seems reasonable that we will see Blu-Ray hardware in the next round of releases.… Read the rest

07/08/200909/22/2013

iPhone 3GS Video Upload to YouTube Really Works

YouTube reported an immediate jump in cell phone video uploads associated with the new iPhone 3GS. Its extremely easy to whip out your iPhone, records some video and upload it to YouTube. You need to already have a YouTube account. Your video is almost immediately available to other users.… Read the rest

04/16/200909/22/2013

Adobe PDFViewer Safari Plugin, No Thanks

Whenever I have to install or update Adobe Acrobat, I always have to go back in afterward and remove the Acrobat plugin from the Library/Internet Plug-ins directory. With the most recent update to Acrobat Reader 9.1, I spotted a new option.… Read the rest

04/16/200909/22/2013

When will Apple Sell its 1,000,000,000th iPhone Application?

04/16/200909/22/2013

Zeroing in on the Billionth App Sold by Apple on iTMS

On Apple.com there is a small animation estimating the number of apps sold in the iTunes App Store since it first opened last year. The counter is closing in on 1 Billion. That’s a 1,000 million for our longitudinally-challenged friends on the other side of the Atlantic.… Read the rest