I bought a Kindle 2 last month and joined the e-book revolution. I love e-books for various, practical reasons:
1. Books pile up around the house. I don’t have room to keep all of them. Selling, training, giving, or donating them is a pain. Throwing out books makes me sad.
2. Books deteriorate. I typically purchase used books, and [...]
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If you have a large external hard drive that you wish to share between your Mac and Windows machines, you’ll find yourself in a dilemma: Windows offers no support for Mac-formatted (HPFS+) drives, while Mac OS X, out of the box, offers only read-only support for NTFS, the default file system for Windows XP and beyond. Mac [...]
Here is a tip for Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) users who use the Terminal application to SSH into remote hosts, such as Ubuntu server. I found that the “delete” key doesn’t work consistently when I’m using screen, clex, or other applications. The fix is in the Terminal configuration on the Mac. Go to [...]
For some reason, Apple makes it a little difficult to run your MacBook using an external monitor as the only screen. The key to this is to have an external keyboard and mouse (which makes sense), and to run the MacBook in closed-clamshell mode. I had to figure out how to do this recently, and found [...]
MPlayerX, an OS X video player that I really like, just released an update a couple days ago. I noticed today, when I launched the app. The 0.9.8 update seems to fix a lot of MPlayerX’s stability problems, and introduces a more refined interface. I found that it starts even faster now, too! I’m very [...]
I’ve kept a journal for about three years now. I love using it to write down my thoughts and feelings, to record the results of my latest cooking experiment, and to set and track personal and professional goals. I would be lying to say that I always look forward to writing in it (writing [...]
I don’t have anything to add that hasn’t already been said about Dropbox, but I have to say that it is great, and that I recommend it to everybody. Dropbox is the easiest way I’ve found to share files between my home computers (Mac and Linux) and my work PC (Windows XP).
Dropbox gives you a [...]
For The Love of VLC
For years now I’ve relied on VLC Player for video playback on all my computers, whether they ran Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux (primarily Ubuntu). VLC is a fantastic program: it can play nearly any audio or video format you come across, it has tons of audio and video playback [...]
