Lyle Schofield’s Technical Journal
On line log of technical adventures
Came across a very cool Tree Map generator for your disk space for OS X, called “Disk Inventory X“. Distributed free with GPL. A very fast way to figure out where all your disk space went (and then to see the obvious collection of MP3 files at the end). Downloaded, installed, and ran in about […]
The experience with Mac Journal was very positive, and ended up purchasing a license. It greatly centralizes personal journaling/writing, and is a lightweight word processor which saves resource cycles waiting for programs to launch and do their thing. Also found out there is an escape function to allow HTML to be inserted into documents, which […]
I’ve been using Mac Journal for a little more than a week now. The basic editing and management features are very good. I’m very happy with this as a basic journalling tool. I’ve also figured out all the server configuration issues, successfully posting articles to both WordPress as well as Blogger/BlogSpot. The editor is weak […]
With dozens of journals spread all over the place I’m looking for a way to simplify management of them. I’ve considered writing a database myself for this purpose, but would want to avoid this if possible. I came across “MacJournal” (from http://www.marinersoftware.com/products/macjournal/, and maybe http://homepage.mac.com/dschimpf/), which has very positive marks from MacWorld and CNET. Simple […]
Nice concise review from Information Week on this new browser. I’ll be sure to check it out when they release their OS X or Linux version. Review: IE 9 Is Microsoft’s Best Browser Yet — InformationWeek.
Nice review of upcoming OS X features. Since new hardware seems to be on the horizon (the home computer past the 6 year mark, and the work one is pushing 4) it’s nice to see some of the features. Mission Control is the one that caught my eye most – the Expose and Dashboard are […]
Very nice browser based WiFi stumbler. Uses a graph to show you overload on a particular channel, although doesn’t consider multiple points as part of the same LAN. Maybe this is bad architecture anyway, the points are colliding with each other. http://www.tools.meraki.com/stumbler
A few weeks ago I upgraded my iPhone 3G to iOS4. The only feature I was interested in was the folder feature for stacking applet icons. I don’t like all the side scrolling you need to do once you have more than 16 applets. While I was very happy with the folder feature – especially […]
I’m not a heavy user of Subversion, so forgive me for not being part of the prevailing “use the command line” crowd recommendations in OS X (and probably most Unix/Linux users as well). I was using SmartSVN for a while – so long that the open source version I was using seems to have been […]
I’m using iReports a lot for general business reporting, which is an open source reporting tool in the spirit of Crystal Reports. It merges SQL and Java, creating report “documents” which are an XML file which tells how to attach to the database, run the query, and then format the results into a pretty document […]