Month: October 2009
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Change Another User’s Safari Home Page In Snow Leopard
I manage my kids computer accounts using Snow Leopard using Parental Controls, and have worked out a good way to handle updating the list of allowed websites, but have so far been stumped about how to set the homepage for their accounts. See, when you create a brand new account in OS X, and assign…
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Recipe for “Grass Mud”
Erica came up with her very own recipe for “Grass Mud”: That’s: 1/2 Cup Grass 1/2 Cup Mud 1 Rock Mix Enjoy!
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Windows 7 – Install and Upgrade Experience
At our office we all use OS X day-to-day, but we do keep a few token Windows machines around for debugging windows builds, taking screenshots for our manuals, producing screencasts, etc. We recently set up a brand new machine that will be dedicated for producing screencasts of our products on windows. When we bought the…
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How Many Pounds Of Meat Do You Eat For Lunch?
Here is an image from a recent advertisement by Burger King in Japan. No, I’m not kidding: Who’s hungry? After you eat it, have Hans help you lose it. Source: Burger King sells Windows 7 Whoppers as Microsoft begins Guru training
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Racing the Apple Timeclock
On Friday, October 16th, I uploaded a new application to the apple iTunes App store. It’s an application I developed at work, and I won’t bore you with details of what it does other than to say it’s called “Auriculo” and is acupuncture related. On Monday at work we decided that we could re-create the…
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Managing Parental Controls On Snow Leopard With 3 Kids
How to automate the management of parental controls options for more than one user at a time.
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Pickin’ Pumpkins
Isaac is in preschool this year, and his class went to the pumpkin patch last week to pick out a pumpkin for Halloween. As you can see, he was more interested in playing on the farm than in getting a pumpkin.
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Fall Colors
Inspired by last year’s picture called “Veins” of a leaf showing off its fall colors with the help of the sun, I ran out into my backyard a few days ago and shot these:
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Out With The Sandvox, In With The WordPress
For the last few years I’ve been using Sandvox to manage this website, and I’ve been mostly pretty happy with all it could do – when I started using Sandvox WordPress and other blog-engine type stuff was nowhere near what it is today. I’ve recently begun to use WordPress in other areas (at work, for…