TiVo Crash
Our TiVo Series 3 bit the dust. The signs were there -- a couple of days before the fateful day, we had noticed that it was sounding louder than before, the ominous sound of a hard drive on its way out. And then a couple of days...
Author: Marc
Pen question
Why is it that when a pen seems like it is running out of ink, you can scribble on another part of the page and get it to work, but you can't resume writing in the area you were working on when it ran out of ink?
Preventing Quicksilver’s Clipboard History window from popping up when quitting applications
A few months ago, I noticed that Quicksilver's Clipboard History window would pop up unexpectedly when I used Cmd+Q to quit applications. Mildly annoying. I finally decided to search for a solution and I found a workaround at...
Word Up! on You Tube
Somebody posted a review of my iPhone game, Word Up!, on YouTube....
Xcode/iPhone error 0xE8000001: problem and fix
As you all probably know, I've written a word game for the iPhone called Word Up! <shameless-plug> </shameless-plug> Tonight, I started getting an error while trying to run my app from Xcode on my device (provisioned...
Push Button For McCain
McCain apparently has a pervasive campaign where he's managed to somehow get his name on tons of street-crossing button thingies in Sunnyvale, California. Look closely at the picture below. "McCain" appears in two places. "Push...