Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

How To Auto-Capitalize “I” In Mail, iCal, And All Of OS X

One thing I deeply missed when I started using a mac as my main system was the auto-capitliazation of the letter “i”. When I was typing an email, or document it was almost second nature to just type “i” because I knew that Word would have me covered and auto-capitlize that puppy into “I”. I [...]

Making Your Own Twitter Page With Simple API Calls

Say your company has blocked twitter and/or you don’t like all the extra bloat on the twitter home page. I have found it very useful to create my own page. Even though facebook and other social networking sites are accessible, and even more ironically some of my companies own advertising actually promotes following them on [...]

My Desktop – August 8 2009

A view of my current desktop. Today I decided I would try turning off 99% of the menubar and desktop icons that I had. My goal was to go for completely uncluttered and clean – a place where I could create, work and produce – without distraction. I had a hard time turning off some [...]

Computer Tip: Windows XP Zip Functionality Disappeared

One thing that adds peace to my life is a working computer. A couple days ago, while working, I noticed the default zip/unzip functionality in Windows XP was completely missing. I couldn’t unzip a package I had downloaded, and there was no “Send To Zip” under the right click menu. After some research, here’s what [...]

My New Favorite Service For Streaming Music

I have been a strong user of Pandora for many months now. I had been using their Mac application Pandora Jam, and was impressed. It was so simple to just load up a song choice, or artist, and let go. I used to plug in one of my favorite old school bands Alice In Chains [...]