October 2009

Longbrake’s San Francisco Pics

“Random, but it’s cool”




Fixing a Little Annoyance in Snow Leopard’s Mail.app

Remove the name and brackets which accompany email addresses when copying them.




“Macintosh Shapes Up a Winner”

Speaking of the past and the LA Times, check out Lawrence J. Magid’s 1984 review of the Original Macintosh 128K. Once you’ve set up your machine, you insert the main system disk, turn on the power, and in a minute … (More)




Phil’s Favorite iPhone Photography Apps

Not all iPhone photo-processing apps are created equal: After trying these out and putting them through their paces, I found myself getting frustrated with the fact that these apps are similar enough to want to only use one, but different … (More)




A Newspaper Serves Its Community

Perusing the PBS video archives I came across this old, 13-minute documentary of the writing, editing, typesetting, printing, and delivery of the LA Times. And boy has advertising changed since this video was made. I’m not too sure how many … (More)




Tweetie 2.0

What Loren has done in his design of Tweetie 2 is similar to what many of the best authors do in their writing. Some authors lay out plainly points 1, 2, 3, and 4, so we, the readers, are sure … (More)




Adventures in Rural Internet Access

Chris Bowler is on a quest to live off the land, do more gardening, get some chickens, and raise a goat. All while having access to fast, affordable internet.




Simplenote Restyled

Now here’s a good-looking interface for Simplenote. And it’s compact. So if you use Simplenote in Fluid as an SSB it makes for a minimal footprint.




Machine Methods

Patrick Rhone is giving out free Mac tech support via Twitter. If he can fix your problem in 140 characters or less it’s free. Otherwise, it’s $25. Either way you look at it, that’s a good deal.




Daily Drop Cap

Hand crafted, illustrative initials by Jessica Hische to prettify your blog. Check out the A and C. (Via Khoi.)




Use Dropbox to Create a Yojimbo iPhone App

Not being able to sync text notes between my iPhone and Yojimbo has never bothered me. But there have been many occasions where I wish I could send photos to Yojimbo more easily. Well Ken Clark just wrote up a … (More)