Posts by fjpoblam

I just upgraded to Mountain Lion yesterday. Coincident is the upgrade to Safari 6. Rough edge: Safari loads with a blank page instead of the "home page" I've placed in preferences. The blank page is accompanied, on the omnibar, with a...

I'm updating a client's website. I have a folder for the client, named after the client's domain. Let's call it, "domain". Within the folder, I have another folder, called "Images". In that folder, I have all the client's website...

Quote: Originally Posted by kerryb I think we probably bombarded with enough energy waves already I doubt this is a healthy solution to powering up a device. In our alarmist area, there're already folks who favor outlawing cell phone...

Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna Are you really that lazy. Yep, it ain't all that hard to take a click or two three more to get to the right stuff. But ain't automation wonderful? If a skilled web designer can make it easier...

I'm about to swap my email management from Gmail to Hostgator (my domain). The current mail account on my iPad is set up as a Gmail account, with my domain name (me@mydomain.com) as the email address. (This email address, in turn, is set...

I use GIMP, not necessarily daily, but very frequently. I don't foresee a rewrite that'll run without X11. GIMP accomplishes some detail work not possible in, e.g., Pixelmator. And I'm not among the rich and famous who can afford to keep...

How long does an SSD last versus an HDD? Do I recall correctly that it has a limited number of read/write passes before it begins to degrade? Yes, I can see that this might be irrelevant in a world where a buyer might want to replace...

It is our habit, for each year, to download photos from the camera periodically to the laptop. Each download creates an "event" named for the date of the download. At year-end, we merge the events. ("2001photos",...

Surprise, surprise! It _needn't_ be purely for data "consumption". Already, there are *rudimentary* photo editors (e.g. Photogene and Photoforge), *rudimentary* word processors (e.g. Pages and the upcoming M$ stuff), and...

I saw an interesting point of view elsewhere - in arstechnica, I think it was - from someone who'd been in China. This person suggested that what _we_ call "slave labor" is actually considered a good thing by many who work in...