Author Archives: Erik
Snow Leopard “Drag to Dock” Exposé = D.O.A.
I’ll keep this quick. The “drag to dock” Exposé feature I’d seen a demo of wasn’t working on my computer. Dragging items to icons in the dock did nothing. Boo. I figured it was some sort of conflict with Launchbar. Or Default Folder X. Or maybe even Sprited Away. Or Dropbox. Grrr… Nothing made it [...]
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The Semenya Caster Controversy
From this page: “Caster has been the victim of some sensationalistic reporting from Australia. It seems that every time a talented young African runs well, the foreign press feels a need to question their gender and the legitimacy of their age. Sad.” Talk about complete and utter bullshit. New young African superstars pop up just [...]
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Compiling SWFs from TextMate with the Flex SDK
I finally feel like I’m all growds up. Perhaps some details about this transition will follow in the coming days. But let me just say that this is the post that finally got me up and running with the Flex 3.3 SDK and TextMate. I’m not sure how often I’ll use this method. It’s way [...]
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Screencast Question – Voiceover Preference
What do you prefer? When screencasts are clearly narrated while they are being recorded, such as Merlin Mann’s desktop tour or when it is obvious (or at least appears obvious to me) that the voiceover was added after the video portion was recorded, such as this screencast about Blogo? (I should mention that the Blogo [...]
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Two MacBook Pro features I like…
…that I didn’t think would be a big deal at all: The LED backlighting that means the screen has no “warm-up” time when I lift the lid. The screen is instantly at the brightness you want. No waiting and adjusting. A very nice touch. The multi-finger gestures on the trackpad. I’ve loved the two-finger scroll [...]
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Now I’m happy… MacBook Pro Battery update
Check this out: Delicious. I switched to the integrated graphics in my 17″ MacBook Pro. Not only is battery life way ahead of what I was getting with the dedicated graphics, the machine runs a lot cooler and I don’t see any difference in performance. As long as I’m not playing 3D games (which I [...]
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SuperDuper smart update – new computer – old clone
When I moved from my iMac to my new MacBook Pro, I used Migration Assistant to move all my stuff over to the new machine. When it was time to make my first SuperDuper clone of the new machine, I thought I’d try to use SuperDuper’s Smart Update function to clone my new computer to [...]
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“Fun” with the iTunes Store
Today I tried to download an update to an iPhone app and was greeted by this: Okay, so the AIM username I’ve been using to buy stuff from iTunes isn’t allowed anymore. Lame, but I’ve also wanted to ditch that account and switch to my Apple ID. Looks like this is my chance. So, I [...]
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ActionScript TextFormat.font values
One thing I have to do a lot with ActionScript 3 is make TextField instances at run time that use something other than the default font. One way that I’ll do that is like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 // make a new TextFormat object and set its "font" property var myFormat:TextFormat [...]
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I’m lucky, I guess