Posted by Ben Jackson
Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:38:00 GMT
Please excuse the lack of posts recently. Just came out of an extended self-imposed hiatus from blogging in order to focus on getting multiple projects out the door. Hopefully I'll be posting more often now that I seem to have gotten the TextMate blogging bundle working with my Typo installation.
I'm typing this up on my brand spanking new dual-core Mac Mini stacked with 2GB, and I can say that the little sucker runs circles around my old Titanium Powerbook. I can run Parallels with a fat slice of RAM alongside OSX and it doesn't even blink. Even Photoshop in Rosetta mode is less agonizingly slow than I expected. I'm just drooling thinking about CS3.
In other news, INCOMUM has put up a brand new hotsite, so go kill the rest of your lunch hour checking out our new work.
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Posted by Ben Jackson
Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:31:00 GMT
File this one under "I must be a mongloid for not having thought to do this before".
Open up Script Editor, and save the following as "Set Rating for Current Track".
using terms from application "Quicksilver"
on process text t
if t contains "*" then
set myrating to 20 * (length of t)
else if t > 5 then
set myrating to 100
else if t < 0 then
set myrating to 0
else
set myrating to 20 * t
end if
tell application "iTunes" to set rating of current track to myrating
end process text
end using terms from
Stick it in ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions and you'll have an Action to set the rating for the current song in iTunes. Open Quicksilver, type your rating (e.g. ***** or 5), type Rating, hit ENTER, and watch your five-star playlist grow.
Extra points for assigning triggers to the numeric keypad's 1-5 keys.
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Posted by Ben Jackson
Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:34:00 GMT
I love my Skype phone. It's one of those things that, now that I have it, I find life hard to imagine without.
Which is why it pisses me off that much more when the phone suddenly drops its connection and won't pickup, forcing me to unplug the base station and sometimes even restart the machine.
What pisses me off even more is when I unplug the base, only to have the mouse and keyboard stop responding and subsequent restarts give nothing more than a black screen.
Unplugging everything but the keyboard and mouse has gotten me to the windows setup screen at least, but I still can't get the sucker to restart.
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Posted by Ben Jackson
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:35:00 GMT
It's a common scenario. You get an email requesting a contractor for a project. You call the client, discuss the details. The job seems interesting. The client is friendly, but obviously concerned with cost. Then they hit you with the question.
"What do you charge per hour?"
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