Category Archives: Geeky
Wow.. that’s a hole
From this link: http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2010/06/01/pictures-of-the-day-408/
Today Dashboard
My first iPhone application is available for purchase on the iTunes store as of today. Pretty happy with that, the last 10% did take 90% of the time The application is called “Today Dashboard” and it is intended to be … Continue reading
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iPhones are awesome
I know I said I hate cellphones, but an iPhone is a computer — then a cell phone and for that reason I love this device. Having an internet connection all time is great! We’ve been on a few trips … Continue reading
Wolfram Alpha
This looks like a very impressive tool. Here is the link to use it: http://www.wolframalpha.com/index.html Watch this screencast to see what it can do: http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html It goes live today but you can’t use it yet. [update] It goes live on … Continue reading
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Light up Sheep
This is really cool.. man they have a lot of time on their hands.
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Starting with Twitter
I’ve started using twitter. If you’re using it also then feel free to follow me. http://twitter.com/dcardamo
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Pirate Bay
This is really cool, someone has mapped out torrent activity from a global perspective and laid it out on google maps:
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Favorite Mac OS X Applications
Here is a list of applications that I find myself using very commonly over the past few years. There have been many more but in the end they don’t get used as often so I’m not listing them here. I’m … Continue reading
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Macbook Pro Fixed
I’ve been meaning to put together an entry on my favorite Mac OS X applications since I know several people getting started with the OS. This christmas break I sent in my macbook pro for repairs since it was getting … Continue reading
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SPF because Spammers Suck
Tonight my blackberry didn’t stop buzzing for several minutes. Turns out a spammer was using my mail address to spam a decent part of the globe at a very fast rate. The only thing I know of to help prevent … Continue reading
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Points of Sufficiency
Mike at [The Online Photographer](http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/ “The Online Photographer”) had [a great post about sensor sizes in cameras](http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2008/02/sensor-sizes-pa.html “The Online Photographer: Sensor Sizes Part II”). What I agreed with most is the concept of “points of sufficiency”. He’s mostly discussing digital … Continue reading
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Heather’s Toy
Heather every now and then geeks it up more than myself. This week was one of those times. Heather bought a Roomba
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TextMate Command to get QNX 6.3.0 POSIX docs into HTML window
I created a new TextMate command today to get the HTML documentation for the current word highlighted from the QNX 6.3.0 online documentation. If you’re looking for POSIX docs integrated with textmate then this should work for you also: #!/usr/bin/env … Continue reading
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Starting to use TextMate
I have decided to switch to TextMate as my editor. I’ve been using Vim for a while now and still think its a great editor but have decided to make the switch. TextMate is really easy to customize. I usually … Continue reading
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Liquid Lady
Saw this on google video today, and this has to be the most flexible person I’ve ever seen. Makes me cringe… http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8705268198162394845
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Virtue Desktop Manager
I’ve been using Desktop Manager as my virtual desktop pager/manager on Mac OS X. Problem is that it doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore (last update May ’05) and is a PowerPC binary. I just found Virtue last night and … Continue reading
Xbox 360 Died.. and then resurrected
My Xbox 360 died this morning. It had 3 red lights flashing, all of them except the top right which according to this Microsoft Knowledge Base Article means my box is dead and needs to be repaired. I tried unplugging … Continue reading
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Cool POSIX app to colourize your terminal applications
http://cwrapper.sourceforge.net is a great application for colourizing the output from programs like make, gcc, ps, df, etc. I find it particularly usefull for make and gcc since it highlights warnings and errors. Its extremely easy to install. I had to … Continue reading
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Mac OS X Terminal Applications
I’ve been using 3 different terminal emulation programs for Mac OS X. So far I haven’t found any that are perfect. Here are the three of them and their pros and cons: Apple’s Included Terminal app: Pros: – Comes with … Continue reading
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