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Sync gmail contacts and calendar with the iphone wirelessly
February 17th, 2009Wouldn’t it be great if the iphone let you sync your gmail contacts and calendar in realtime over 3G, EDGE or wifi? I’ve been using Microsoft Outlook as my sync vehicle and it’s dumb. Why am I teathering my gazillion dollar phone when it has multiple options for high-speed wireless networking? Even my five-year old [...]
Objective-C Memory Management
February 4th, 2009Here’s a simple, well-written guide to memory management in Objective-C.
http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Technical/2001-03-11.01.html
Still Using Microsoft Paint?
April 12th, 2008At work today a friend of mine showed me a slick little image editor called Paint.NET. It combines the power of Adobe Photoshop with the speed and simplicity of Microsoft Paint, and boasts the same price as the Gimp. In other words… it’s completely free.
Paint.NET has layers, color, contrast and brightness controls, effects and [...]
Installing Ubuntu
April 11th, 2008My new Coolermaster Cosmos case has a bunch of drive bays, so I decided this would be a good time to pop in a spare hard drive and give Linux another go. I chose Ubuntu 7.10 (the 32-bit flavor) for its reputation as a friendly, well-supported distro.
Installation was easy. I booted Ubuntu right off the [...]
Drive Me Directions
July 19th, 2007Google just gave Google Maps human intelligence. You might say they added a common sense module – your brain. Now you can customize your driving directions to your hearts content. Did Google chart your route through a bad part of town? Simply click on the road you want to avoid and drag your path to [...]
Two Discoveries
June 30th, 2007Whilst writing my last post, I discovered two wonderful things. First, Wordpress 2.1.2 (the web application that powers this blog) now automatically saves my posts as a write them, much like MS Outlook saves an email in your Drafts folder as you compose. I wish every website did this. I can’t count the number of [...]
Picking a Printer
June 30th, 2007It’s time for a new printer. My HP Laserjet 1100 is on its last legs. It has served me well, or at least well enough. I had to replace a roller a few years back to keep it from jamming (that set me back about $30 at fixyourownprinter.com). Besides that it’s been a loyal friend. [...]
Organization, by Vista
February 28th, 2007I love the responses I get when I tell people I’m using Vista. “You must be feeling brave.” “Why did you do that?” “Vista? Isn’t that a rip off of OS X?” I didn’t get a single, “Sweet, how is it?”, so I’ll use this forum to tell you how it is.
Vista fixes a lot of [...]
New System, New Post
February 23rd, 2007It’s about time I built a new system. My last desktop, which I built way back in high school gave out on me about a year ago and I’ve been living off a laptop for a while. My laptop is nice. With its 17-inch screen, Intel Core processor, and a Geforce Go 7800 it’s still a viable machine. It plays many a game [...]
Search and replace newlines in Vim
September 27th, 2006Vim’s replace function does work with newlines, but there’s one quirk. To search for a newline, the standard \n works, but to include a newline in the replacement string, you need to use \r. Say you wanted to convert the ^M’s in a file to newlines. Use the following command:
:%s/^M/\r/g
To input the ^M, use CTRL-V [...]