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links for 2008-12-15

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tweetie – bookmarklet instructions (tags: iPhone twitter)

links for 2008-12-14

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Fast Scrolling in Tweetie with UITableView (tags: iPhone cocoa performance uitableview)

New Camera

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About 2 months or so ago, I was able to pickup what I consider to be my first “real” camera: a used Canon Rebel XTi with a 1.4 50mm fixed lens. So far, I’ve been blown away by how awesome it is. One of the things that had been driving us crazy was how slow […]

Cheese Ball Recipe

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Every year for the holidays I make my favorite appetizer: a ham and onion cheese ball. I learned the recipe from my dad and I’m going to share it with you. You will need: 3-4 packages of Philadelphia Cream Cheese ( I do not recommend the fat free version for this ) 8-16 oz deli […]

Reason #41235 the American car industry is dying

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Craptactular (that’s a technical term) internal design! Case in point: Replacing the car battery on our 2006 Saturn VUE. The battery in our VUE has recently been put under some stress ( think 2 year old and leaving headlights on ). It finally gave up yesterday, so I went to Sears and bought the replacement. […]

Happy Thanksgiving!

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I wanted to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow American readers. To the rest of the world, have a nice day.

Netflix Pricing

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Something funny I noticed the other day about Netflix’s pricing when I was considering us upgrading to the 4 disk a month plan: After you reach the 3 disks at a time plan, the incremental cost per disk stays the same. I would think it would continue to go down. Here’s the breakdown: Disks Cost […]

Airplanes!

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This is not exactly the post for those of you afraid of flying. I’ve had this links and videos sitting in a text file on my computer since February when I found them. I was supposed to blog about them a long time ago, but I never could seem to find the time. Today, I […]

links for 2008-11-13

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Masters of the Void: Home — C Tutorial with Mac Focus (tags: tutorial software osx objective-c macosx programming tutorials) Cocoabuilder – (Erik Buck) Guidance for Cocoa's steep learning curve Epic thread about how to deal with Cocoa's learning curve (tags: Cocoa Programming Learning) Inconsolata Great programming font (tags: development mac osx typography typeface type programming)

links for 2008-11-12

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Sounds of hard drives needing data recovery (tags: sounds sysadmin)

links for 2008-11-11

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A touch of Cocoa: inside the iPhone SDK ARS Technica write up about the iPhone SDK (tags: objective-c development iPhone review)

links for 2008-10-31

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Hackosis | Brute Force Calculator A tool to determine how hackable your password is. (tags: tools password)

links for 2008-10-16

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Andre on Tech: PostgreSQL on Leopard gotchas Tips for installing Postgresql on leopard (tags: postgresql osx mac install postgres leopard) Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from Microsoft Update, or by using Automatic Updates after you perform a new Windows XP installation or you repair a Windows XP installation When Windows Updates start […]

links for 2008-10-12

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Making Tomcat Session Management Work With Sub Domains (tags: Tomcat Session)

links for 2008-10-06

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What are those little Xcode tips & tricks you wish you knew about 2 years ago? – Stack Overflow Greate XCode tips (tags: Xcode)

Owens Country Farm

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Today we took Brenden to the Owens Country Farm in Richardson. That’s the same Owens as the sausage. There they have animals to feed and a hay ride. During the Fall, they also have pumpkins. Brenden had a really good time and got to see a lot of animals and rode like a big boy […]

Today: A Companion For iCal

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Have you ever wanted to quickly add an event to iCal but didn’t actually want to either launch it or bring it forward? Or you wanted to take a quick look at your schedule for today? Well, earlier this year Second Gear Software released a new utility for OS X called Today that does just […]

links for 2008-09-22

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Mollom New Blog spam prevention service (tags: wordpress spam tools webservice) VMware Communities: A Power User's Guide to VMware Fusion Awesome VMWare Fusion tips (tags: macosx tips vmware)

links for 2008-09-02

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File upload in Rails Good example of how to handle all file sizes with Rails file upload (tags: Rails Upload)

links for 2008-07-30

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Git for the lazy – Spheriki (tags: versioncontrol tutorial scm reference git cheatsheet)