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Two MacBook Pro features I like…

By Erik | Published: August 3, 2009
…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

By Erik | Published: August 1, 2009
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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Unibody 17″ MacBook Pro Battery

By Erik | Published: July 21, 2009
I love my new 17″ MBP, but claiming that you can get 7 hours out of a charge while using the 9600M graphics is just a bit of a stretch. Unless, of course, that estimated battery life in the menu bar is way off. I’ll be lucky to get 5.5 hours and all I’ve been [...]
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Max OS X Dashboard Widget font all wrong

By Erik | Published: July 16, 2009
I recently (as in, yesterday) moved over from an iMac to a MacBook Pro. OS X is generally pretty good about moving all of your files and settings over for you. But there are some hiccups in the process and one that I just found has to do with the font used on the Dashboard [...]
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FLV bitrate capped?

By Erik | Published: July 8, 2009
I’ve got this beautiful QuickTime movie I need to convert to an FLV so that I can embed it into the Flash timeline. The source movie is, like I said, beautiful. 500x500px, 2 seconds long, and a whopping 15.5MB. With a file size like that, you’d expect it to look good. Also, for what it’s [...]
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101transitions.com

By Erik | Published: May 27, 2009
I just set up a new site: 101transitions.com Nothing there yet, but it will be a place for me to put Flash experiments. Those experiments will mainly be ActionScript 3 slideshow transitions and rollover effects that I often dream up and would like to share. That’s the plan at this moment, at least. And, yes, [...]
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My 24 hours with the Kindle

By Erik | Published: May 6, 2009
I was a Kindle 2 owner. For a day. I love technology. That was almost enough for me to want to try it. Then I was reading about the really nice highlighting and annotation features of the Kindle and that got me really excited. The fact that a lot more tech books are available on [...]
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Instructions for Life

By Erik | Published: April 30, 2009
I just found this in my email archive. From a message received on September 29, 1999. Almost ten years ago? WOW. INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE Eat much brown rice. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. Memorize your favorite poem. Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you [...]
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Bee Paper – Pen Sketcher’s Pad

By Erik | Published: April 27, 2009
I went to Flax Art looking for some paper that would work nicely with pens. Ideally it would work nicely with the Sakura Pigma Micron pens. But, like always I couldn’t find what I was looking for: nice smooth, pen friendly paper in a wire-bound pad. Sure, there are plenty of expensive papers made specifically [...]
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This is amazing

By Erik | Published: April 27, 2009
The commercial: http://tr.im/jQro And how they did it: http://tr.im/jQrg Of course they don’t mention how they linked all of the cars’ headlights to a computer. I’m actually more interested in how the video in the first link interacts with the rest of the page that it’s embedded in!
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