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MacHeist nanoBundle 2

By docwhat | Published: 2010-03-03
There is a new MacHeist nanoBundle. For $20, it looks like some fun mac-ish tools to play with. Yeah, I’m one of those people who can have fun simply playing with new software. Hmm…I have apparently also posted 120 posts to my blog. Wow! I didn’t notice till I played with MacJournal. [...]
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Logging while monitoring a shell script

By docwhat | Published: 2010-02-25
You may be familiar with redirecting the output of your shell script to a file using exec However, what do you do if you want monitor the output while logging at the same time? I just figured this out (probably again, since I tend to forget things… which is why I’m blogging this). WARNING: This is [...]
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It’s All Text! 1.4 (FF3.6 compatible)

By docwhat | Published: 2010-01-23
I have just finished Firefox 3.6 after working like crazy since FF 3.6 came out. It only works in FF3.6, but the statistics show that the users of It’s All Text! upgrade their browser almost immediately after a new version comes out, so I’m not worried. At the time of this post, it hasn’t been approved, so [...]
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An idea for an iPhone app

By docwhat | Published: 2010-01-22
So Robin (my awesome wife) came up with an idea for an iPhone app. We were watching UHF and there is a bit where a guy is trying to teach poodles to fly… by throwing them out the 3rd floor window. There was a pile poodles on the lawn of his apartment building. She cracked up.
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MacBook Pro – Dual Graphics

By docwhat | Published: 2009-12-03
I’m annoyed. I’ve had my lovely late-2009 MacBook Pro with the incredible dual graphics processors for a couple months and I had the slower GPU enabled the whole time. Apparently, you need to go into “System Preferences” -> “Energy Saver” and turn on “Graphics” -> “Higher Performance”apple kb.
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