I have been a casual user and fan of GeekTool for a number of years. GeekTool provides a means to add images, code, logs or web content to small, pre-defined locations on your desktop so they lay behind your application windows and can refresh at a time rate that you set within the code. GeekTool…
Category: Techy Links
Bookmark like it is 1999, er, 2005
Hi there! I’m back. I would love to write here more regularly but I find myself writing in other places more often so this site gets pushed to the proverbial back burner over and over. But, I have something I want to capture so here it goes. I hit Twitter yesterday and saw this post…
Two steps too soon?
And, here I am again changing out cell phones. For someone who resisted joining the smart phone “revolution” for as long as I could, it is kinda comical that I keep finding myself blogging about the updates and changes to my phone. But, my new plan with Sprint allows me to always get the newest…
Building my little pile of electrons
The semester is almost over. The pace has slowed down and I need to do something a bit more geeky just to get my grey matter back on track. So, inspired by D’arcy Norman’s reclamation project of his data, I decided to give a whirl to some of the tools he mentioned to see if I could…
Earth Hour – turn off your lights on Saturday between 8 pm and 9 pm local time
Maybe change out some of those bulbs with CF or LED? Earth Hour US site Slightly associated, I have been interested in the argument about white backgrounds vs. black backgrounds for web sites (see Google’s response). Not sure which side is right but I know I tend to design more on the light side so I would like to…
The internet back in 1995
Wow..it is going to change the way we learn, work and play!!! Can’t wait to see how! They cite 35-40 million people on the internet. I just checked and according to the Internet World Stats page the number now is closer to 1.3 billion. This is courtesy of the great work by the folks at…
Upgrades are not always easy – but I still usually jump right in
I was (and still am) pretty darn impressed with the speed improvements with Firefox 3 Beta 4. Snappy! But, I am not sure if this new Ff or the upgrade I just did on WordPress or the update to Scribefire is the reason but my easy peasy way of blogging is no longer easy (or…
Techy-Feely on your Celly
While I don’t have a cell phone that will even read this page…I do understand that the world is moving in that direction. To that end, here is a mobile version of this blog via MoFuse. Just to see if I could do it. Off to find someone with a phone that can read it!
Fun Apple Commercial…
I especially like this animated version of the Mac and PC guys from Apple.
Blog Warning
Having fun at the Warning Sign Generator site. Too bad I can’t spell blog right! (heh)