Up front I’ll just state that I’ve been a fan of tablet computers for years, having used a Fujitsu Stylistic since 2003. The form factor, handwriting recognition, pen interface — all good. So I’ve been more than eager for a tablet Mac since coming back over to this side a year ago. And of course…the [...]
The answer was so simple, but until I stumbled on this wonderful little AppleScript I was constantly frustrated by the difficulty of just copying the full path to whatever you were looking at in Finder. Now I’m happy.
Inspired by some recent comments I made at the New York CTO club, my colleague Dan Woods just published an article at Forbes.com in which he interviewed me about what I see as some of the most significant advantages of the Groovy language in enterprise software development environments. I will just add that over the [...]
I was frustrated to discover that my working MySQL 5 installation stopped working when I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Here’s what I did to fix it: Uninstall the old copy Install the 64-bit version from the MySQL site Install the two packages (a separate one for the StartupItem) and copy the prefs pane to /Library/PreferencePanes/. [...]
Love this: save your script anywhere you want as an Application (I’ve started using a Scripts folder under my home directory). Drag the icon up into the Finder toolbar area and it’s available everywhere. I got this from a wonderful script for launching iTerm and changing to the current directory in it here. So you [...]
Update for late 2010: I found the newer release of SecureClient (R56 HFA2 Build 015) now works natively with Snow Leopard. The original post follows in case it’s still useful for anyone: This is one of those posts you do in the hope that it will save someone else from the pain you’ve gone through. [...]
Through achingly slow steps over the past …who knows… I have finally gotten myself to the point of writing some new code in an area I’ve wanted to explore for awhile. I want to create richer UIs for interacting with information, like the old days in a way that’s been lost to me since I [...]
I left my old HP Laptop for a shiny new Mac early this year, and have barely used it since. I have fond feelings for the old slab, ugly and utilitarian as it was, for all the work it did for me. But I wasn’t prepared for the nasty smell of something burning coming from [...]
I finally put together my wonderfully hungry Fujitsu Scansnap S1500M with a great little AppleScript droplet to drive Acrobat Pro to do the OCR on batches of documents. So I can finally do this: – Take a (physical) folder full of papers that I will never look at again, probably, but don’t want to lose [...]
After a lot of painful diagnosing I found that my Netgear Router has a setting for “NAT Filtering” that defaults to Secure…and when set to Open it resolves a frustrating problem with the Checkpoint SecureClient VPN software which was causing “Cannot connect to gateway” problems. I found lots of threads online but nothing clear (and [...]
I’ve had Apple computers off an on since 1980. I remember a IIci that I dragged across country and back. But it’s really been a Windows world for me for most of the past 15 years, I’d say. Not anymore. A sweet little Aluminum Macbook and the 10.5 release of the OS (Leopard) has won [...]
I keep my photos on a NAS at home, and map that to P:\ under Windows, where Picasa finds them. I recently decided to tell Picasa to find the photos using the full UNC path instead (\\nas1\pix). No problem, Picasa was happy to rebuild its DB of my photos, but all my albums were deleted…gone. [...]