I had the opportunity to attend the world premier of an independent documentary called
Richard Garriott: Man on a Mission while at SXSW this year. All I knew about this films going in to it was that it was about the son of an astronaut who go to go into space.…
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The built-in iPhone app called ‘Stocks’ can be used to get current and historical exchange rates for various currencies. If you only enter one code it tells you the price in that currency for one US Dollar. The format is the three-character code for that currency followed by =X.…
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Helping Shawn and the gang with their Drupal Site.
A Flash-Heavy site that displays an inventory of Dental Practices for sale. The site also contains a blog of wisdom about professional practice transitions.
Flash work by KeynoteThemePark.com and WallabyWeb.com.
You’ve seen the meme, if the auto industry were like the computer industry our cars would crash for no apparent reason, or something like that. I think there are some parallels to what’s going on in the computer industry today when you compare it to the auto industry of yesteryear.…
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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.…
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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.…
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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.…
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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.…
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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.…
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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.…
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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.…
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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.…
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