Category Archives: General Geekery

Dear Steve

By Erik | Published: May 11, 2010

I know I’m way late to the game here, but I just watched the video of the Apple event where you announced iPhone OS 4.0. It makes me want multitasking, it makes me want folders, and I was really impressed with the sample ads that you showed for iAd. Regarding iAd: If those things were [...]

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Getting videos onto the iPad is hit and miss

By Erik | Published: April 4, 2010

One of the first things I did when I got my iPad was try to get some of my paid video tutorials onto it. I’ve got a couple of screencasts from Peepcode. I’ve got a screencast series from Pragmatic Programmers. And I’ve got a ton of videos that I’ve downloaded from Lee Brimelow’s goToAndLearn site. [...]

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It’s true

By Erik | Published: April 2, 2010

The iPad does in fact come out tomorrow.

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Mercurial and FLAs

By Erik | Published: March 31, 2010

I’m starting to play around with Mercurial and wanted to see how well it handled FLA files. Mainly I wanted to know how much the repository would balloon as your revised and committed the FLA. So I did a simple test where I made an FLA, committed, added a big image to it, committed, made [...]

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Snow Leopard “Drag to Dock” Exposé = D.O.A.

By Erik | Published: September 3, 2009

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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SuperDuper smart update – new computer – old clone

By Erik | Published: August 1, 2009

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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OCZ Vertex SSD

By Erik | Published: June 2, 2009

I’m pretty excited that solid state drives are finally living up their promises. A good review of the new OCZ Vertex SSD at BareFeats.com. Hopefully by the time I get a 17″ MBP, there will be a 512GB option. …drool…