To help in the ongoing search to make the “home” and “end” keys work in Mac OS X like they work in other operating systems, I give you the Firefox version of KeyFixer. (See here and here for background on the problem and info on how to fix this issue in other apps besides [...]
Star Trek Inspirational Posters
by Jim on 07. Mar, 2007 in Fun
Millions of geeks and nerds have been inspired by Star Trek over the years. Now there are inspirational Star Trek posters for your office! Here’s a few examples.
Give the gift of Star Trek this year!
See more posters here
GTD Tools For Your Mac
by Jim on 09. Feb, 2007 in GTD, Software
I’ve recently been getting into David Allen’s book “Getting Things Done” and trying to get a good GTD system set up on my Mac. It doesn’t take much looking around to find a plethora of new GTD apps for Mac OS X. Here’s just a few of the apps that I’ve come across.
kGTD
kGTD [...]
10 Ways The Nokia N800 Is Better Than Apple’s iPhone
by Jim on 12. Jan, 2007 in Apple, Linux, Nokia N800, Open Source
Looking for the N900? Find out how it’s also better than the iPhone! New article here.
Get the Nokia N800 and accessories
All the buzz these days is about the Apple iPhone (not to be confused with the Linksys iPhone). I have to admit, the iPhone is pretty cool, and I was really excited about it [...]
Firebug
by Jim on 27. Dec, 2006 in CSS, Web Authoring
While working on a new site today, I was reminded of just how great the Firebug extension for Firefox really is. I used Firebug heavily about 6 months ago for a Ruby on Rails application. I used it mostly for monitoring and debugging my AJAX calls. Firebug has come a long way [...]
New Browser Stats
by Jim on 24. Dec, 2006 in Fun, Software, Tech
Starry Hope Readers Are Smart
One of the smartest things you can do to protect yourself online these days is to simply not use Internet Explorer. The thing is so full of holes that using it is just asking for trouble. The December 17, 2006 stats release from W3 Counter shows world-wide usage of [...]
Parallels vs CrossOver Prizefight
by Jim on 23. Dec, 2006 in Apple, Mac OS X, Software, Tech
The past few days have been full of announcements in the area of running Windows applications on your Intel Mac. First, Parallels released a new beta version of their virtual machine, then VMware released a public beta of their virtual machine. Today, CodeWeavers made release candidate 1 of CrossOver Mac, their Windows compatibility [...]
Parallels Screencast
by Jim on 22. Dec, 2006 in Apple, Mac OS X, Software, Tech
Parallels Desktop for Mac Update Beta2 (Build 3094) was released today. Here’s a screencast that shows off some of my favorite features.
Place Windows applications on your Mac desktop or in your application dock. Just click to launch them directly from OS X!
Use Command+tab to cycle through Windows and Mac applications simultaneously, and hide [...]
10 Great OS X Application Icons
by Jim on 21. Dec, 2006 in Apple, Mac OS X, Software, Tech
The latest generation of Mac applications have really focused on the way an application looks. Developers are creating beautiful user interfaces and slick looking icons that make their apps more pleasing to look at. I appreciate the time and energy that people have put into making their apps look great.
Here’s a [...]
‘Tis The Season For … Ruby!
by Jim on 19. Dec, 2006 in Fun, Open Source, Ruby on Rails, Web Authoring
The guys over at Ruby Inside are putting together a
Ruby Advent Calendar. The Calendar features a new article about Ruby for each day of Advent.
Following the trend, Err the Blog has put together their own Advent Calendar that’s packed full of useful Rails tips (focusing mostly on ActiveSupport). There are some great gems in there!

