Archive for January, 2007
January 25, 2007
I really like .Mac
I’ve tried several photo gallery sites and I like the flexibility of .Mac and the fact that it integrates into iLife. That much is great but the service is severly behind competitors like Flickr and PBase.
One thing that is needed is a more robust photo gallery. Sure I can export my photos [...]
Categories: Mac, photography
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January 23, 2007
I realize this is a gross over-simplification, but I’m growing weary of dealing with Flash in the browser. Why can’t we have a rich media browser standard that is Java-based? Pretty please? If we had this then we could do server-side remoting with ease from a Web browser. What I am doing now involves pain [...]
Categories: Java
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January 22, 2007
This turns out to be easy to accomplish. I tried doing this by brute force first but then found some excellent directions on Google’s GMail site.
Setup GMail on Treo
I am stil testing out synch’ing with iCal and Google Calendar. I ended up resorting to calling Cingular who referred me to Palm on this one. It [...]
Categories: Java, Mac, Palm, Treo
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January 19, 2007
So I have recently picked up a Palm Treo to use as my PDA/phone. I’ve owned several PDA’s in the past and none have stuck around. This one might since I’ll inevitably be carring a phone.
My first impression is that the whole thing is fairly well thought out by Palm. My previous phone was a [...]
Categories: Mac, Treo
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January 10, 2007
This blog entry is intended to keep some notes on my migration to Ubuntu.
This morning I installed Oracle Express simply by downloading and using the package manager.
I added /home/public as a public Samba share and here it where I’m keeping music, images and movies. I mounted my local NTFS partition with my iTunes files and [...]
Categories: Linux/UNIX, ubuntu
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January 10, 2007
Today I cleaned off a spare 80GB drive and installed Ubuntu 6.10 on my Dell desktop PC. I had to leave it to dual boot Windows. I intend though to mostly run Ubuntu and use it to serve iTunes using mt-daapd and also use it as a development machine for running Oracle Express and Subversion.
The [...]
Categories: Linux/UNIX, Mac
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