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  • Remove Snapz Pro X’s splash screen

    April 12, 2008
    MacOSX Tips

    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…

  • First computer mouse and Usability Dilemma

    April 11, 2008
    Gadgets

    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…

  • Custom Folder Icons in MacOSX

    April 10, 2008
    MacOSX Tips

    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,…

  • Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

    April 9, 2008
    Personal

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

  • Disable Content Preparation Progress Dialog in Adobe Acrobat

    April 9, 2008
    Windows Tips

    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…

  • Winmail.dat Viewers (Mac and Windows)

    March 29, 2008
    MacOSX Tips, Windows Tips

    I occasionally run into a winmail.dat file that I can’t open (typically because some outlook user has “rich text” as their default email type. Although, occasionally they aren’t sure how this happened and the default is HTML or plain text. I wanted to post on two utilities (one for MacOSX and one for Windows) that…

  • SyncServer Unexpectedly Quit (resolved)

    March 29, 2008
    MacOSX Tips

    I believe that I have finally resolved the problem on my MacBook when starting Mail.app that it would display this error message “SyncServer has unexpectedly quit” with a relaunch button. After doing a few google searches I found a site that referenced this problem a way to resolve it. Link Since, I wasn’t using .Mac…

  • Bluetooth AV Controls under Windows with iTunes

    March 27, 2008
    Gadgets

    In this post, I wanted to document the steps that I had to follow to enable the A/V controls (play, pause, next song, previous song) buttons of my Motorola-S9 headset with my windows computer using iTunes. Setup used: Motorola S9 headset Dell Latitude D830 Dell internal Bluetooth adapter (2.0 adapter with A2DP and AVRCP profiles)…

  • easyPages v0.22 is available for download

    March 14, 2008
    easyPages

    You can download it here: http://snydersoft.com/easyPages/ I recently updated easyPages to include a few enhancements: Added file icons for MSProject, WinZip, and Unknown filetypes Display last modified time in format “(Updated DD-MMM-YYYY HH:MM)” after file names Display “new” icon if the file was updated in the last 14days easyPages is a PHP script that creates…

  • Twitter and WordPress

    March 5, 2008
    Development

    I wanted to document one of the hacks that I have made to a the Twitter WordPress Sidebar Widget. Edit to “Twitter WordPress Sidebar Widget” I wanted a line break after the time, so I added the following line: li.appendChild(document.createElement(‘br’)); As the last line inside the following “if” statement: if ( showTimeFirst == 1) {…

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