16 Dec 2011

iTunes Match and the Podcast Playlist Problem

Posted by in gadgets, Geekery, OSX, rants | 10 Comments

EDIT: Whoop! Looks like YouOverRotated’s comment below was spot-on. Thanks! See my new post on how that suggestion got my playlist syncing working again. Oh, iTunes. Does it have to be this way? So, I now have iTunes Match, with all of its associated Cloudy goodness. But I also have a problem. Can anyone help me […]

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22 Aug 2011

The Road Ahead

Posted by in Announcements, Career, Geekery, Productivity, programming | 4 Comments

Over the last few years, I’ve slowly been enjoying my day job less and less. It went in one direction as I went in another. Still, it was a decent source of monthly income, and while it was challenging work, on one level it was at least easy to keep on doing it, day after day. […]

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19 Jul 2011

Little Lion Luxuries

Posted by in Mac, OSX | One Comment

I’m sure the release of Lion will be accompanied by an entire pride of in-depth reviews. In fact, people have been doing warm-ups to get ready for John Siracusa’s mammoth review… So, instead of digging too deep, or tackling any of the more controversial features — and it’ll be interesting to see which generates the most arguments […]

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19 Jul 2011

Revealing Lion’s Hidden Library Folder

Posted by in Geekery, Mac, OSX | 16 Comments

The OS X user-level Library folder (/Users/<your short name>/Library, or ~/Library for short) is hidden by default in OS X, from Lion onwards. I’m going to show you several different ways to show and open your Library in Lion, in increasing order of geekiness and permanence. Mavericks update: Yet another, easier, way to reveal your library has […]

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19 Jun 2011

Linen Backdrop

Posted by in Design, Geekery, Graphics, Mac | No Comments

Here are some linen-textured backgrounds, with a vignette added, that I think work pretty nicely as a backdrop. The size/aspect ratio here (1920x1080) works well on both my iMac and MacBook Air — let me know if you’d like me to generate a different size. (All created with Pixelmator, mostly because it has an extra random noise […]

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