Camp Yahoo

This is the first year that we’re going to the company picnic at Blackberry Farms in Cupertino. We’ve arrived at DeAnza College, where we’re supposed to take a shuttle to the picnic, but the line is really long and we’ve been waiting here for around a half hour so far. I’ve noticed that the parking lot . . . → Read More: Camp Yahoo

XUL Start Menu

Wow. Impressive, most impressive.

http://robin.sourceforge.net/

(This is XUL so Mozilla-based browsers only).

For more amazing XUL eye candy, . . . → Read More: XUL Start Menu

Weird Mac OS X problems

I’ve noticed two annoying things today that I didn’t notice before so I think that the system got corrupted or I must’ve changed some weird preference somewhere that I didn’t mean to:

If I Command-Tab repeatedly, maybe 1 out of 20 times, one of the icons is missing. For example, right now I’m running 5 apps: Finder, . . . → Read More: Weird Mac OS X problems

Getting your feet wet with Ruby on Rails

This article doesn’t teach you a lot about Ruby or Rails, but the nice part about it is that it shows you how easy it is to build web apps with Rails.

I went through his tutorial last night and looked at my watch before and after. Literally, it took only 20 minutes to build a . . . → Read More: Getting your feet wet with Ruby on Rails

iPod battery life

A few weeks ago I got a notice in the mail about a class action lawsuit against Apple where the plaintiffs were claiming that iPods “did not have the battery life represented and/or that the battery’s capacity to take and hold a charge substantially diminished over time.” This notice advised me to test my iPod’s battery . . . → Read More: iPod battery life

iPhoto 5.0.4

From http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/iphoto504update.html

iPhoto 5.0.4 addresses an issue with browsing photos that have been auto-rotated by . . . → Read More: iPhoto 5.0.4

New Yahoo! 360 Features

Yahoo! introduced several new features in Yahoo! 360° that enable consumers to bring together more of their personal content from around the Web and further customize their Yahoo! 360° pages.

The new Yahoo! 360° features – including feeds for other blogs, photostreams from Flickr, and blog comment notifications – help consumers aggregate their personal content from the . . . → Read More: New Yahoo! 360 Features