Month: April 2008


  • Signs of Spring!

    YellowBushes Originally uploaded by jeremysnyder While I was walking the other day, I took this picture of some bushes that are along the drive here at work. I enjoyed seeing such vibrant colors so early in spring. Enjoy!

  • Here are some pictures I took with my phone of our first trip this year to see the Indians play. It was a bitter cold day and we were watching a good part of the game as snow was falling. The Tribe was able to pull out a (7-1) win against the A’s on Sunday…

  • Ever since installing Snapz Pro X, I have been interested in turning off the splash screen that appears every time I startup my MacBook. Today, I took the time to do a little digging at Ambrosia Software’s website and found the FAQ that answers my question: Can I get rid of the Splash Screen? Which…

  • Engelbart’s Usability Dilemma: Efficiency vs Ease-of-Use — The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart’s philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard – with keys like a…

  • I found the following site that explains what you need to do, I will simply summarize for my specific application/needs: http://www.lockergnome.com/usrbingeek/2007/05/03/how-to-make-custom-drive-and-folder-icons-for-your-mac/ Make an image that is 128px by 128px in Photoshop (other other program) Save as a PSD or as a PNG file with a transparent background If you don’t have Apple’s Developer Tools installed,…

  • Followed the simple 3-step upgrade process at WordPress.org and had no problems getting it installed.

  • If you have been annoyed by this following dialog when you open PDF files in Adobe Acrobat v8, here are the two different ways is the way you can disable it. Rename the Accessibility.api and ReadOutLoud.api to Accessibility.old and ReadOutLoud.old (or you can move them to a different folder). These files are found in C:\Program…