Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

Pullfolio private beta! Here’s your invite!

If you’re a pro/semi-pro photographer and love Flickr, I think you will love Pullfolio. Pullfolio helps you create professional portfolio sites using photos in your Flickr account by tag(s) or photosets. For example, you can setup your photography site with these portfolios:

Wedding – it pulls all photos that are tagged pullfolio [...]

Mounting and un-mounting external drives without plugging/unplugging in OS X

I have a 500GB MyPassport drive I use to clone my Mac’s internal drive, it’s plugged into one of the USB ports behind my Apple Cinema Display. After I eject/un-mount the drive I don’t want to unplug and re-plug the USB cable to re-mount the drive, I can re-mount it in Disk Utility, but that’s [...]

“Late 2008″ unibody MacBook Pro screen flicker problem

After Apple announced the unibody MacBook Pro about a year ago, I walked into the San Francisco Apple Store that night just to “check them out”, of course, I walked out with one. I’d owned a large number of Apple products and I kindda knew getting one of the first badge of a brand new [...]

RailsRumble ‘09

I participated in last weekend’s RailsRumble, my first time “rumbling”, it was a pretty awesome experience. Ray’s team at Intridea had an opening and he asked if I wanted to join last week, I was like, why not. I’ve been doing paired coding with Ray for years now and I know we can easily pull [...]

a little late, but if you haven’t pre-order snow leopard…

I just robocopped the fam pack.

Switched comments system to IntenseDebate

I just switched to IntenseDebate, the plugin is dope, it imports your existing comments to IntenseDebate, and when a new comment is posted it also adds it to your blog’s database, so there is zero cost to try it as you can always switch back.
I enabled Facebook Connect and Twitter login, when you post a [...]

From BusySync to CalDAV (iCal + iPhone + GCal)

I’ve moved everything to Google Apps for Domains a long time ago, so my personal and work mails, contacts, and calendars are all on my GApps accounts. All my consulting clients are also on GApps. Using GApps, iCal and Addressbook on my Mac, and my iPhone, I got decent PIM integration between phone, mac, and [...]

My gdgt widget

They don’t really provide you a way to put this on any webpage, IMO the clearspring thing is pretty lame, but no worries, inspect the page and grab the object tag and you can put it anywhere:

I’m really loving gdgt, if they make it easier to add new companies and products it would be even [...]

optimize your mac firefox (sqlite db)

A while ago I read a few blog posts about running the sqlite vacuum command on the Apple Mail internal databases to speed things up, and it dramatically sped up my Mail, I saw that Firefox also uses sqlite for a lot of stuff, so I tried this after upgrading to 3.5, and it definitely [...]

List of Ruby stuff I use

RubyTrends is an interesting concept, the site is not all that polished but it works, I voted for most of the things that I use in my dev and consulting projects, here’s a skitch:
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