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January 10th, 2007 1,370 views
A funny thing happened to me on the way to macworld today… actually, it wasn’t very funny, but it turned out okay. I couldn’t get any parking at BART and ended up driving to the city. Got to Moscone Center with 1 minute to spare before the first conference session started; Mac OS X Hints. I parked in a garage on 3rd st. and was in such a rush, i didn’t even see what the prices were. I hope they take credit cards! The session was too full and i couldn’t get in. I tried a couple of others, but wasn’t really into it. Luckily, tons of other people didn’t get in either, so they are repeating it before the next round starts. I am in the hallway waiting for that now.
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Filed under: Mac Stuff
January 9th, 2007 1,933 views
note: raw notes scribbled during the keynote. these will be edited and reposted at some point in the near future.
update: changed my mind. too tired to edit. i will just add the photo and the ‘read more’ link, fix the typos, and leave the ramble as is. To skip the ramble and view the actual keynote, click here.
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Filed under: Mac Stuff
Tags: macworld
January 8th, 2007 1,351 views
I am at Moscone Center. Just got my badge for macworld. No lines today. Exept for food! There are endless lines at the 2 food stands. The power tools conferences must have just broken for lunch when I got here and the food stands were just opening. It is a good time not to be hungry. Nothing going on here today besides from registration and the first round of power tools conferences. Even though I am not signed up for any of those, I thought i would take advantage of the free wireless while I am here.
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Filed under: Mac Stuff
Tags: macworld, meds
November 27th, 2006 3,132 views
Work has been very busy lately. I have one very big job, and possibly several other smaller jobs coming up. I am hoping to be able to partner with d. We will try a test run with one of the smaller jobs. We have almost completely opposite skills and completely opposite ways of working. I think that is a good thing. She is very organized about the initial process of signing up a client, including managing expectations, writing contracts, and charging realistic prices based on actual time worked, rather than pulling some random number out of the air like I tend to do. She is also skilled at graphic design and has experience making web sites. If I had my way, I would stick to the (x)html/css and back end coding for the site and do technical support for the client after the site is complete. I would leave the business stuff, front end design, and client management to someone else. Could be a match made in heaven if we can somehow merge our oppositeness into a working business.
It is getting harder to keep up with school. The ’side-effect’ of feeling better lately is that I have lost the super-focus that I was having when I was undermedicated. I have also been very twitchy and shaky which is quite annoying. It is a strange balance. It is still hard for me to get out, but not as hard as before. The main difference is that I am not completely exhausted like before. I can do a wider range of things, but am back to having a one second attention span. Going to see the doc on wednesday, but not sure if I am ready to continue experimenting with new meds and/or doses and timing of meds.
I am tired of waiting and waiting to find the right combination of drugs and going through long periods of terrible side-effects until the next drug or dose kicks in. I will probably keep experimenting, but am thinking of taking a break for a while and going back to figuring out ways to make myself feel better even when things aren’t so good. It has been very hard to do that while continuously messing with my meds, and I am hoping that taking a break will help, at least in the way of keeping things stable for a while. One of my best skills is adapting to life under less than ideal circumstances. It is impossible to adapt to something that keeps changing.
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Filed under: Autism / Asperger's, Geekery, Mac Stuff, Random
Tags: life, ramble, warcraft, work
September 26th, 2006 4,839 views
Some of my favorite mac freeware *
- Adium - multi-protocol instant messaging client
- Butler - application launcher with many other handy features
- Camino - mac-like gecko browser. not as many features as firefox, but faster.
- ClamAV - Antivirus program, because you just never know…
- Colloquy - GUI IRC client
- ColorTagGen - Use the eyedropper to get fast hex color codes. This little app rocks!
- Dashboard KickStart - brings up the dashboard for a second at startup so that you don’t have to wait for it to load the first time you use it.
- Firefox - I
Firefox
- MAMP - Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP server environment in an easy to install, easy to use package. Includes Apache v2.0.x, phpMyAdmin, MySQL v5.0.x, PHP v4.4.x and v5.1.x, and more.
- NeoOffice - Mac version of OpenOffice (OO also works on a mac). No need for X11 with Neo. Prettier than OO.
- Onyx - tweaking, maintenance, etc.
- Quicksilver - similar to Butler, only geekier. I use it on my powerbook. I find Butler’s interface a little more intuitive.
- Smell-O-Mints - Periodic table with some nice features
- TextWrangler - I actually use BBedit, but TextWrangler is an excellent free text editor that does much of what BBedit does so I have to mention it here.
- Transmission - BitTorrent Client
Widgets:
- Image Shackle - fast easy way to resize images. Just drag the image to the widget, set a size, and click ’shackle’ for a copy of your image at the specified size. I love this widget!
- Panda Cam - live feed from the San Diego Zoo’s Panda Cam
- PHP function reference (PHPfr) - comprehensive PHP reference
- iStat Pro - system monitoring widget
There is a great list which includes many of the programs mentioned above (and many that aren’t) at xfreeware.com.
Anyone else have any favorite mac freeware? Please share…
* I am using the word freeware because payment is not required to use these apps with all features enabled and without a time limit. Many of the programmers accept donations to compensate them for their time and effort. If you can afford it and use the program regularly, please consider donating 
Filed under: Geekery, Mac Stuff
Tags: mac, software, widgets
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