Which "Evening in Paradise" is best?
Here are several possible photos for "An Evening in Paradise". Do you have a favorite?
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February 28, 2006
February 19, 2006
First, it's cashiers that don't have to compute change...
Now, it's drivers who don't have to learn how to parallel park. This is a movie (10MB avi) of a self-parking Toyota Prius. It seems that BMW has developed similar technology and has a similar video.
Probably pretty useful as we've all seen (and done) poor jobs of parallel parking.
February 18, 2006
CamiTools is a winner
nadamac's CamiTools is a definite winner. A simple and incredibly useful set of preference panes for the new Camino 1.0 browser on the Mac.
While the Camino features that CamiTools exposes are available via Camino's hidden prefs, CamiTools allows you to avoid the tedium and error associated with direct editing of the user.js file.
In addition, one of the things I wondered after leaving Safari behind was "how am I going to keep my bookmarks in sync between my powerbook and my powermac?". We'll fret no more...CamiTools lets you FTP Camino's bookmarks up to a server (assuming you have one); download them via FTP to the other system and...voila. While not a "true sync" per se, it's as useful as I need.
Nice work nadamac.
P.S. Interesting how I came across these tools. One of the very few readers of this blog saw my recent post about trying Camino and, noting my inability to figure out how to make "find as you type" working, posted a comment showing me how to do exactly that. My curiosity got the best of me, so I followed the link to the site owned by the comment author and was quickly dispatched to the nadamac site. Thank you again.
February 17, 2006
Now using Camino...
Camino - Mozilla power, Mac style.: Finding that Camino (with the 1.0 release id'd by Tim Bray and Dave Shea) to be a very nice Mac browser. One thing that I particularly like is that the Bookmark Bar simply wraps to a second line, rather than inserting the >> mark that Safari displays to indicate that you must click to see the links that don't fit.
The documentation speaks of a "find as you type" feature that is supposed to be "on" by default, yet it doesn't appear to function. No great shakes. It just requires, as the other browsers do, a press of cmd-f to get the find started.
In my brief 30 minutes of Camino-ing, it feels fast and compatible with the variety of sites I visit.
February 15, 2006
A most courageous silver medal performance
A truly amazing skating performance showcased the peaks and valleys of world-class athletic performance. The video shows the full performance of Zhang & Zhang in the pairs skating. With a horrific fall at 38 seconds into the session, and their decision to courageously go forward and complete the session, these two overcame the most to win the silver medal. A truly inspiring effort.
February 2, 2006
Time-Lapse Construction Sequence
I have previously written about a construction camera that I had set up at my son's school.
I also said that I was looking forward to doing a time-lapse movie of the construction process. Since we're (i.e., me and several other people) in the process of raising money for this new facility (which we call the Athletic and Convocation Center), I have taken the opportuntity to do a "so far" time lapse movie. Check it out. Make sure your speakers are turned on...and enjoy!
