MacStuff

Ecto Notes

I’ve been giving the new weblog tool, ecto, a spin and here are some notes and comments regarding this potentially useful blog tool. The tip (scroll down to Q6) about configuring your MT … Read more

Mac RealOne Player Tips

Item 1: The recently received email touting the new RealOne player neglects to mention that there is no update for the Mac client. Item 2: If you lose access to

What is Mac OS X?

The answer to that question may be found in a very detailed article at kernelthread.com. Written by a recent Mac convert who was asked to give an overview of OS X to a … Read more

Macworld Expo 2004

The Macworld Expo is being held this week in San Francisco. Being a relatively new Mac owner, I thought I would check out the event in person (having seen it on the local … Read more

Merry Mac Holidays

Happy New Year! Random observations after a week of mac-hacking: Dreamweaver mostly sucks, but I don’t know of anything better for small web site management (for managing my non-Movabletype content). Iview Media Pro … Read more

One Thing Leads to Another

I joined the ranks of firebird and thunderbird users today. So far, firebird hasn’t had any problems rendering the sites I’ve visited, and setting up thunderbird to access my imap mail account was … Read more

This and That

I just noted, after reviewing my movabletype log, that mt-blacklist has already blocked at least 4 comment spam attempts. Yeah! Temporary victory or no, it’s still one to be savored. Having been a … Read more

Mac Terminal Tip

Note to self: if you’re trying to set a terminal’s name via “File->Set Title…” then by all means, please be sure that your /etc/bashrc file does NOT contain code similar to the following: … Read more

Printing to Mac from Windows

Shortly after I got my powerbook I moved my hp 970cse printer from my XP box over to my new mac where it’s been working fine. I’ve recently had need to print to … Read more