I’m taking a Spanish language class, in prep for an extended trip next year, and I’ve been wanting a great flashcard program. I found it in Genius (Mac only), which is Freeware and exactly what I wanted.
I had been using iFlash which was good except for the fact that it sometimes chokes on importing […]
I searched all over the place last night and I couldn’t find anything that could import passwords into Yojimbo for me. I did see a lot of complaining about the lack of ability to do so, however.
Since I really like the app in most ways except for its lame import capabilities, I whipped one […]
Tags: Tips · Open Source · Macintosh · Python
I’ve been using a Mac as my primary development and personal operating system since OSX 10.1, a few years. In that time, I’ve tried a lot of software, and I’ve developed my own working style. But what is really interesting is how I’ve come to appreciate the services the operating system and its […]
A recent client needed me to run some Windows-only software from their network.
Tags: Tips · Macintosh · Downloads
I just got my beautiful new color laser printer from Dell. I did a lot of research, and I really think Dell’s CN3100 is the best color laser under $400 (if you buy it from delloutlet.com).
Tags: Equipment · Tips · Macintosh
Finding this technique took more time than I thought it should, so I thought I’d share a quick and simple music transcoding tip.Converting WMA to MP31) Get mplayer and lame installed.
Tags: Tips · Macintosh · Linux
Usually I am satisfied by the commandline tools available in OSX.
Tags: Open Source · Macintosh · Linux
Yet another great use for Django is to make trivial the creation of shared tables & forms for internal projects.
Short story: upgrading SQLITE3 makes Safari crash in OSX.
Using Sqlite on several systems recently, I decided to upgrade the installed Sqlite on my Macbook Pro. Otherwise I kept running into version incompatibility problems between the Linux systems and my Mac.
Compiling was easy enough, but by habit before I installed the new libraries, I made […]
In the grand tradition of Daring Fireball I’m going to share my software choices.