Category: Technology

  • NFL and ESPN leaving money on the table?

    NFL and ESPN leaving money on the table?

  • Essential Travel Tools for iPhone and iPad

    Essential Travel Tools for iPhone and iPad

    A close friend recently asked me if I liked TripIt after he noticed the automated posts of my travel plans. This came on the heals of almost a year of constant business travel, so I figured I would give back my tips for the Road Warriors out there trying to remember what city and time…

  • Getting started with Applescript

    Getting started with Applescript

    A quick link to a resource for learning AppleScript to automate repetitive tasks in OSX.

  • Two Mail.app plug-ins all Exchange users need

    Two Mail.app plug-ins all Exchange users need

    If you are using Mail.app with with MS Exchange, you know the frustration of sending attachments and opening those dreaded winmail.dat files (the sender sent a MS Exchange email file as an attachment). Grr. To get around dealing with Microsoft’s refusal to comply with email standards, I recommend two mail.app plug-ins: Lokiware’s Attachment Tamer and…

  • IRC Client for OS X

    IRC Client for OS X

    I’m looking for an IRC client for OS X. I’ve run acros several but I’m not sure which will fit my needs. Here are the current candidates: Colloquy Irssix Ircle (gotta love that name) X-Chat Aqua (A port of the popular Linux IRC client) I’m leaning toward X-Chat Aqua, but would like to hear other…

  • Disable infrared receiver on Apple computers

    Disable infrared receiver on Apple computers

    I’ve had this annoyance for a while now and was too lazy to Google it. I have an iPhone docking station, an iPod docking station and my Apple MacBook.

  • Why I don’t typically use any browser other than Firefox

    Why I don’t typically use any browser other than Firefox

    I’ve talked about Internet Browser security briefly before, but I thought it might be best to follow up with a commonsense commentary on why I favor Firefox over other browsers. On March 18, 2009, TippingPoint’s Charlie Miller, for the second year in a row, hacked an Apple OS-X based laptop in mere seconds. The source…

  • Building Scalable Web-Based Applications

    Building Scalable Web-Based Applications

    Scalable web-based applications has been getting a lot of air-play on social networks like Twitter lately, mostly because Twitter has been overcome by scability issues and the service unreliable. Having an unreliable internet service is embarassing and unacceptable. There is no better way to kill your brand image than to have your viral social media…

  • Apple clearly has Nintendo in its sights

    Apple clearly has Nintendo in its sights

    As if it wasn’t obvious each of the last Apple developer’s conferences, Apple has gaming on it’s mind and Nintendo and Sony firmly clearly on it’s radar. Each of the last keynote addresses about the iPhone have featured EA or some game developer. The latest salvo seems like it will go off more like an…

  • Sequel Pro — MySQL database management app for Mac OS X

    Sequel Pro — MySQL database management app for Mac OS X

    If you are looking for a MySQL admin tool that isn’t phpMyAdmin, Sequel Pro may just fit the bill. A community project that in the process of expanding beyond MySQL to other DBMSs like PostgresSQL, MS SQL Server, it looks like it has a lot of potential and decent management of the project. The UI…