21 October 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Displaying currently-playing iTunes track in the Mac menu bar

TweetIn an attempt to teach myself Objective C, and because I couldn’t find anything that did what I wanted, I wrote a little utility to display the currently-playing iTunes track in the Mac taskbar. Originally I had it display the full track name right in the taskbar but it was too much text for such [...]

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04 April 2011 ~ 0 Comments

My first trip to Walt Disney World – March 2011

TweetLast week I returned from my first trip to Walt Disney World. We had a great time, and I figured it might be helpful to relay some of the things that helped make the trip better. Walt Disney World with Kids 2011 – I had my doubts about this book but it had lots of [...]

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31 October 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Disabling (or enabling) geotagging of photos in iPhone camera

TweetSome people may not be aware that photos taken with the iPhone camera have the GPS coordinates of your location embedded in the EXIF metadata of the file. This means that when you post the picture online or send it to someone, you’re letting them know where you were at a certain place and time. [...]

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16 September 2010 ~ 1 Comment

One reason I hate iTunes.

TweetI’ve always hated iTunes. It’s a huge pile of bloatware and it’s slow as poo. It’s like 100 mb or more for an mp3 player. I remember winamp playing mp3s when it was a 500k download. Anyway. I keep all my music on a Linux machine running samba. This way it’s available to every machine [...]

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05 September 2010 ~ 12 Comments

Facebook for iPhone – "Places" hangs on "Locating you…"

TweetI decided to see how “Places” stacked up with Foursquare. I reactivated my Facebook account and reinstalled the iPhone app. Went to “Places” and clicked “Check In,” and… nothing. It mentioned something about turning on Location Services. I know I already have that enabled because other apps are using it without problem. Turns out you [...]

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05 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Vonage iPhone App Calls Facebook Friends Free, So What?

TweetLots of outlets seem to have picked up the story about the new Vonage iPhone app that lets you call your Facebook friends free. I don’t understand why this is even newsworthy. There are a bunch of free VOIP apps for iPhone already, with Skype being the one that comes to mind first. But a [...]

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12 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Finally got this DVD ripped and copied to my iPhone

TweetThis was a lot more work than I expected. Then again, I am a newb. And lazy.

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02 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Ripping a DVD on Fedora Core 13

TweetI thought this would be a pretty straightforward task. It was, though it took several minutes to track down the CSS library needed for decryption of the DVD. All I want to do is copy Talking Words Factory to my phone so my kid can watch it in the car if needed. It looked like [...]

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