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Posts Tagged ‘Software’

Junk Drawer

In Music on 23 March 2008 tagged drivers, gear, General, leopard, midi, Music, Photos, Software with no comments

I woke up feeling a little creative this morning and didn’t feel compelled to put together shelves or unpack boxes. So I dug out my Korg EA-1, plugged it into my midi box (which finally has Leopard-compatible drivers) and whipped-up this little bit of synth noise. Junk Drawer.mp3 (192kbps VBR MP3) or Junk Drawer.m4a (177kbps [...]

Tags in Ecto3 with WordPress 2.3+

In Meta on 20 January 2008 tagged Apple, ecto, General, Meta, os-x, Software with no comments

Mr. Tijsseling replied with a link to the infinite-sushi support forums explaining how to setup and use the native tagging feature in WordPress. Nice. Meta note: For access to the n3wblog’s tags, use the tag cloud in the navigation section in the footer or click on the tag links next to a post in single [...]

Ecto 3 Hello World Post

In General on 20 January 2008 tagged Apple, ecto, General, os-x, Software with no comments

I’ve been following Adriaan Tijse… Adrian Tissel… Ado’s Twitterstream for awhile eagerly looking forward to the latest version of Ecto, my favorite desktop blogging software. Version two’s been relatively unchanged for a couple of years now with an update last year to provide Intel support and some new toolbar icons at some point before that. [...]

Logitech Control Center 1, TextMate 0

In Computing on 2 December 2007 tagged bug, center, Computing, control, crash, drivers, logitech, mate, osx, Software, textmate with 1 comment

Ok, this was weird. The command-line TextMate launcher, ‘mate’ was crashing for me in strange and exciting ways. I filed a ticket. A kind person replied back that some people were reporting that it was Logitech Control Center. Humoring the nice man, I dutifully removed Logitech’s preferences panel and drivers… and now ‘mate’ works. This [...]

Logitech Control Center

In Computing on 26 November 2007 tagged Apple, Computing, drivers, logitech, mouse, osx, Software with 3 comments

In the past, I have talked no small amount of shit about Logitech‘s driver situation on the Mac. I don’t think it was unreasonable though, and I didn’t feel the least bit bad about dumping my Logitech MX Revolution for an Apple Mighty Mouse. I did, however, miss all the buttons. A word about writing [...]

Updated Music Library Listing

In Meta on 7 November 2007 tagged Apple, iTunes, itunes_publisher, leopard, Meta, Music, opensource, osx, Software with no comments

I updated my online music library today. It’s been overlong. The current stats are 8436 songs, 27.3 days, 56.3 GB. That’s for a Smart Playlist gathering all checked tracks and excluding videos and podcasts. If including the full library, I’d have 12863 items, 41:12:51:32 total time and 82.34GB. This week I had to deselect a [...]

People! Settle down now! It’s no big deal…

In Computing on 2 November 2007 tagged Apple, Computing, leopard, macbook_pro, osx, review, Software with no comments

Not since the release of the iPhone has so much noise been made about Apple. I am talking about Leopard, of course. It’s out now and you can get it from just about anywhere. Over 2 years ago, I wrote a great big review of Tiger. I’m not gonna do that for this release. Why [...]

Vienna, Please Stop The Refreshment

In Computing on 3 July 2007 tagged Apple, Computing, os-x, Software, vienna with no comments

Just this week I noticed something funny happening with my feedreader of choice, Vienna (using the beta, 2.2.0.2200). It won’t stop refreshing. I’m pretty sure this happened after moving my database back over to my desktop from my MacBook (via a handy Automator script I have for just such a purpose), but if it had [...]