Monthly Archives: January 2006

Gore on W

Posted on 16 January 2006 by tychay

On Martin Luther King Day, Gore delivered an extremely well-written bi-partisan speech indicting the Bush administration and attempting to deliver us from the precipice.
I’m certain that the Right Wing will not debate the merits of this speech but simply say, … Continue reading →

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MacRumors MacWorld roundup

Posted on 16 January 2006 by tychay

Arn posts a roundup of the Macworld 2006 rumors. I have always loved the work he has done there, even though MacRumors is an aggregator of rumors, not a news site itself, he seems to have a “taste” for what … Continue reading →

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OSCON presentation as iPod video

Posted on 15 January 2006 by tychay

I was playing with the video features in Caitlin’s new iPod and found it very easy to use QuickTime Pro to make iPod videos. For fun, I exported my OSCON “Building Liquid Websites with PHP” talk to the iPod (download, … Continue reading →

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WMV on Mac OS X

Posted on 13 January 2006 by tychay

After I read that Microsoft quietly discontinued support for Windows Media on Mac OS X, I didn’t know what to make of it. Just another free app for the Mac that Microsoft is discontinuing—guess MSN Messenger is next on the … Continue reading →

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Address Book sharing

Posted on 12 January 2006 by tychay

Mac OS X Tiger is full of features you never notice until someone is looking over your shoulder saying, “What’s that?”
In this case, Joseph was looking over my shoulder and what he noticed was an accidental drop down sheet in … Continue reading →

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Only one will survive…I wonder who it will be?

Posted on 12 January 2006 by tychay

Blake sent me this URL to the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. Man, I wish this was on iTunes Music Store—I’d actually get an Video iPod for this.
Watch it to see who will survive.

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How to waterblur

Posted on 12 January 2006 by tychay

Someone asked on Flickr how you get waterblur in your photographs.
You can go into aperture priority stick and stop down to f/22 to get waterblur, but you are hitting the diffraction limits of the lens and losing sharpness. (Remember, if … Continue reading →

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A Million Little Equivocations

Posted on 12 January 2006 by tychay

I think what Frey did was wrong and probably potentially harmful to real drug addicts out there, but it wasn’t that interesting until I read that Oprah put her stamp of approval on it—“essential emotional truths” my ass.
We live in … Continue reading →

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ID as nominal philosophy

Posted on 11 January 2006 by tychay

LA Times reports on a California lawsuit concerning “Intelligent Design.”
Since Intelligent Design as a science was universally shut down, the idea this time is to nominally call Intelligent Design “Philosophy of Design” while teaching it as a science or religion … Continue reading →

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EFI

Posted on 11 January 2006 by tychay

MacRumors reports in passing that the new Intel Macintoshes are using EFI (Official page, wikipedia).

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