The secret to using the new Airport Extreme 802.11n base station seems to be choosing a good channel.
I’ve got 3 802.11n machines on my local network, unfortunately one of them is a US-chipset, which only works on channels 1-11. The ‘n’ draft spec goes up to channel 15(?) so if I set the network to […]

The guys over at Uneasy Silence recently linked to the Floating Photos screensaver ripped off the Apple TV disk image, and asked if anyone was up to the task of getting it running on 10.4 machines.
I’ve been tinkering with the original file they linked, which essentially presented 3 objects (Near, Middle, Far) that rotated periodically. […]

Well folks. We have a widget. Ok, so it’s not exactly groundbreaking. It may not even work. Heck, it doesn’t even have an icon, but hey, it’s a start. So if you want to check it out, download DayBreak here.

Well, I’ve been hunting around for a good Mac Mini on the cheap on ebay for a while… mainly to tinker with, and to get used to running some server environment/apps. If you ask me, once the software gets transparent enough, in The Future every house will have a server/network setup, so I like to […]

Almost a year ago, in a post called “Who Cares About Vista?” I pointed out that the numerous delays, lackluster betas and general lack of competitiveness of Microsoft was putting Apple in a very strong position to, basically, rule the world.
And in that post, I mentioned that the one thing Apple could do was to […]

Well I’ve got the basics of the javascript behind DayBreak working in a webpage. You can check it out here. (Only tested in Safari/Webkit, obviously.)
This will chart a workday (9am-6pm), and highlight the current hour. Marginally handy if you’d like some visual marker on your life slipping away.
Development on Simulacra, the iPhone simulator, has been […]

Well, among other things, I’ve started to take some first steps into Dashboard Widget development. Of course it’d be too easy to put together some basic html-only-based widget, so in the spirit of exploration, I’ve prototyped 3 widgets simultaniously:
Daybreak - will be a widget that helps you visualize the passing of time in your […]

It seems that Apple has managed to add Multi Touch to their roster of patents. This technology allows multiple, simultanious input to a touch screen, as opposed to using only one finger. The main advantage this provides is multi-finger gesturing, such as “pinching” or “widening” to zoom in or zoom out (among many others).
If they […]

Joel writes about the myriad choices in Vista just to turn it off in the “Start” (ho ho) menu. Moishe Lettvin, a developer on the team who developed this one menu item, goes on to describe a room full of managers and three week intervals between when code was written and when it showed up […]

Ok, so you’ve got PGP authentication on your mail, and you’ve uploaded your key to the keyserver. Now you want to communicate with someone, and you need their key to do so securely. How do I find someone’s key? “How do they send it to me?” I hear you ask.
The answer is simple. If they’ve […]