tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003185518474131522011-12-07T00:52:39.637-08:00A ramble about the Macintosh, Facebook and any number of other topics that take my interest.Honestpuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09711389927637772511noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2500318551847413152.post-11283254880273343772011-07-18T15:37:00.000-07:002011-07-18T15:37:32.791-07:00

At the moment I'm taking a lot of medication and performing a lot of tasks while recovering from a serious chest infection. A couple of iPhone apps have been incredibly useful. The first is 'Due'. This tiny app allows you to quickly turn on a timer or a set a reminder. I use the timers constantly. After gargling to wash out my mouth and throat after taking either my Ventolin or Symbicort I've

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Recently I found myself in hospital and once again my iPad was a godsend. Yes, it allowed me to watch some TV and movies and read a book or two but it also allowed me some pretty good productivity. So what tools do I need? What tools are useful and what tools are nice little frills? The Essentials The two essentials were Dropbox and Evernote. I have a huge Dropbox folder and an Evernote

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I just had another short spell in hospital and my love for the iPad just deepened. I'm writing a longer post on the apps I found useful there but the short form is that it made life a lot more pleasant. Apart from being lighter than a laptop it is useful to have a device that can be recharged from the same gadget as your phone. It also has better games for hospital than any laptop - including a

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Recently I purchased a ScanSnap 1300 and I have to tell you how much I love the little device. It sits on the edge of my desk occupying less room than a sheet of A4 paper. It uses a neat little application called ScanSnap Manager that runs all the time (Activity Monitor tells me it uses less than 102Mb of RAM.) I insert up to about 8 sheets of A4 (it depends on thickness) or anything smaller

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So we are now into February and as a result you can no longer buy an XServe from Apple. All us Server addicts had a momentary pang of hope when Active told us they were announcing a new product - after all one of those guys designed the first XServe. They gave good news for theXSan people - a replacement to an XServe as a controller, but no Mac OS on it. Is this going to be a problem? John C.

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Dear Larry, I thought you might like to know why I find myself not only unable to recommend your firm, Acrobat Removals, but to positively discourage anyone from using your services. My complaints start on the day your company packed up and moved the contents of my house and garage. If you remember you visited my house and gave me a quote for packing part of the house and moving my goods to

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So Apple has decided to discontinue the XServe. Not a surprising move, I'm sure it doesn't sell particularly well and it has not been updated in quite a while. If you compare it to other server offerings it also lacks serious Lights Out Management and Out Of Band management. The upsetting thing about Apple's move is not that it is discontinuing the product but that it has done it without giving

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So I've had my trusty iPad for a while now. I've written on it, played games, browsed the web and generally had a marvelous time. I do, however, have one major gripe. E-books are still a long way from perfection. To start, why can't Apple sell me e-books here in Australia? Stupid, ridiculous copyright laws that restrict sales from one area in another, that's why. When will these ridiculous

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Ask me anything http://formspring.me/honestpuck

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So at the World Mobile Congress just concluded Microsoft unveiled a new operating system for mobile phones.Well , colour me surprised. They've actually done a good job and created something that doesn't suck. A number of smart moves. It remains to be seen if it is too little too late but it certainly came as a shock to me.I was expecting a rehash of the tired old Windows OS jigged to support

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OK, that's enough. I'm sick and tired of all the arguments about the new iPad and I'm sick and tired of people arguing about the hardware and telling us that a Windows Tablet or Google Android machine wth a touch interface or a Netbook will be just as good and no one will want an iPad.In the design world when looking at redesigning such things as web sites they talk about "use cases" or "user

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So this week, after coming back rested from a week in Bali I've attacked a few problems that need to be handled before I build next years image.My first was to get one of my test boxes up as a 10.6 OS X Server. I not only got it up in quick order I managed to get one of the network guys to give me a static IP, a bunch of aliases for it and punch a hole or to in the firewall ready for some of the

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Ok, so across the world Snow Leopard is becoming available as I write.Apple is billing this as an operating system release without major features. For once a computer company is underselling. Make no mistake this is a major improvement for all owners of an Intel Mac, and further argument to upgrade for all those still on PPC. This is a faster, slicker, more organised OS than Leopard. Snow Leopard

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I've already posted on Bento 2. I think it's a marvelous product and proof positive that no one can beat FileMaker when it comes to making databases easier.So now they have released Bento for the iPhone. For $5.99 here in Oz, $4.99 in the U.S., you get a neat little database application with a number of templates you can customise. You can even create a database from scratch. All incredibly easy

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Back in the dim, dark ages of Macintosh computing I was Associate Editor of Australian Macworld and the big news in games was a small company called Cyan that had released another great game built on HyperCard called "Myst."Myst was the biggest selling computer game ever until it was passed by the Sims in 2002 - almost ten years on top.I certainly wasted far too many hours playing Myst and the

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So since the last time I mentioned Mr Eno I've been hit by the Brian stick twice again.The first time was seeing David Byrne, who is touring the world promoting the album he and Eno released earlier this year. It had been a long, long time since seeing Talking Heads at a rock festival but Byrne and his music still impressed.Now Brian Eno is curating an intriguing festival in Sydney. There is an

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I’m prompted to write this post by a couple of comments I received from someone wanting my recommendation for a laptop. I, of course, told them to buy a Mac. They replied that their Mac friend in the US had lots of problems opening files and lots of video wouldn’t work on the Mac.This is, of course, total nonsense. It’s just that a Mac out of the box isn’t quite finished. So I thought I’d tell

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Over the last few weeks a number of interesting things have happened in the mobile phone market and I’ve been watching with interest.Nokia have launched a handset that comes with “unlimited free music.”Telstra (Australia’s largest mobile provider) have launched a mobile game portal.Apple announced iPhone OS 3.0.Let’s have a look at Nokia’s offer. Nokia are a smart company, if I didn’t have an

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Just last Friday Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was asked about the big mo’ that Apple has been getting lately. Ballmer’s first crack was to point to recent data showing Apple having a sales slump. "Apple gained about one point, but now I think the tide has really turned back the other direction," Ballmer said, via webcast. "The economy is helpful. Paying an extra $500 for a computer in this

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Hmm, it seems that Brian Eno is circling my world injecting little pieces of brilliance. Not for the first time, I might add.Brian Eno is one of those people who has not only done some brilliant things in his own right but has also worked with and affected other people whose work I appeciate such as David Byrne, David Bowie and Robert Fripp.He also works in a number of creative areas.Over the

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I have to admit to being a total database geek. I spent a number of years working with various database libraries for C, including a couple of strong SQL ones. I spent a number of years working with FileMaker and I'm a big fan of it. Tha'ts not to say I don't constantly gripe about FileMaker and have a fairly long wish list, just that I think it is one of the best database systems out there for

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Recently I’ve been taking part in a number of discussion about tribes, bought into being around Seth Godin’s new book, “Tribes”.Now I’m not a marketing guru. In fact I know almost nothing about marketing. So take my words as one who speaks as a layman.Seth has some great ideas about what constitutes a tribe, how to build a tribe and how to use a tribe in marketing - both as a target and a

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It seems that it was about a fortnight ago that I was saying the real significance of Chrome was that it laid down the gauntlet to the other browsers. Now we have the news that Safari 4.0 is getting 'Squirrelfish Extreme' (SFE), a new JavaScript engine that boasts large speed improvements.SFE is using similar tactics to Chrome, but in slightly different ways. They are using bytecode optimization,

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I noticed a piece in The Australian today about the terrible situation schools in South Australia find themselves in.If you ever wonder what the impact of the Microsoft monopoly is just read this article and realise that our schools are being forced to pay huge license fees to the Satan from Seattle. That's taxpayer money being shipped overseas at a great rate because of vendor lock in, monopoly

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So the big news on the 'net is the release of the Chromium beta from Google. Google have unveiled the long rumoured web browser.This is an important event on a number of levels, remember Google would be happiest if you lived in the browser using Google products (where they can show you advertising) rather than in a stand alone application. To do that Chrome is a smart move, they need better

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I’ve posted a new tutorial in the Macintosh Tech People wiki, “Safe, Secure Image Serving with Mac OS X Server.” It details the method I’ve developed for using NetBoot and NetRestore to allow imaging Macs across a wide campus by a number of different groups while limiting access to the core setup of your Server. Hope you find it useful.

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Ok, excuse me for a moment while I go a little weak at the knees.Andy Hertzfeld has been interviewed by James Turner over at O'Reilly. The Mac at 25 discusses some interesting stuff about the Mac. Since Andy doesn't speak too often I'm going to have to read every word three times. It's a great interview. Andy Hertzfeld is up there with Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie and Bill Atkinson in my

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On Friday a colleague returned after lunch with an Apple TV - a local electrical retailer was selling them for half price.Well considering that it's running OS X under all that GUI goodness it was too hard to resist. I went and bought one for myself with a HDMI cable so I could hook it up to my HD TV.Oh joy, oh rapture. The quality of the picture and the ease of use are phenomenal. My one

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Recently I sent out the following email to a number of people. I thought I'd repost it here. If you're interested in building a first class resource for Macintosh support and tech folk join me.Hi,I've recently been thinking about the gathering places for Mac technical people in the net – what is available and what is missing. So what is missing?I've wanted a good blog that gives me just the news

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I've been working away on a new project that will give something back to the Macntosh community. I'm currently looking fo other Mac sysadmins and support people who would like to be involved.I'm excited about the idea and the few people I have shared my idea with share my enthusiasm. I don't want to say too much until we are ready to launch on the world but it is a way of sharing information and

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Google, who also own and run Blogger that hosts this blog, launched their entry into the information collection market. Knol (the name comes from Google's invention of the 'knol' as a unit of knowledge).This is the same space occupied by such people as Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia and Seth Godin's Squidoo. All collections of information with various ways of creating, linking and

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I just read a post on another blog (I'm not mentioning names) which was a thoroughly confused and misleading post about types of web hosting. Having personally used many types and advised a fair number of friends and clients I think I can do a better job.The first thing to remember is that if you just want a nice little vanity web log like this one with some customization of appearance and a few

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So I'm going out on a limb and saying for an Australian outside Sydney and Melbourne now is certainly not the time to buy an iPhone.Now picking up a second hand iPod Touch, that's another matter. I have a Touch, putting the 2.0 software on it has improved the base software, added the ability to connect to the 802.1x based wireless net at work and opened up Apple's App store. I expect within the

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While you're waiting for some more stuff from me check out “101 Photoshop Tips in 5 Minutes” from the great Deke McLelland, O'Reilly' PhotoShop and Digital camera maven.He manages to giv you 101 tips in 5 minutes in a music video. Great stuff!! Training as it should be done.

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So I've spent a couple of days documenting how I go about creating an image for deployment here at work. Shoved it up on Squidoo as a lens - it's a bit big to go here. Check out "Building an image for a Macintosh lab"

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OK, I've been trying hard. I've joined some groups, looked at lots of profiles and waded through a ton of useless emails and spam.Frankly, I've come to the conclusion that for actually meeting people interested in the same topics as me, sharing information and helping each other MySpace is a waste of time.It comes down to two things. I've aready mentioned the problem of spam and fake profiles.

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I've started building some Squidoo lenses. Not all are publically accessible yet, a few are drafts.The first one I published was Putting the best face on Facebook, basically a republishing of a post here on cleaning out your Mini-Feed. The other is Macintosh Terminal tips, a republishing of the stuff I put on Google Sites. I'll be interested to see if the Sites version or the lens gets more

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So I've been actively exploring MySpace for a week or two now and I'm sick and tired of the spam.On Facebook there are a lot of complaints from people (mainly marketers) that it is too easy to fall foul of the (unstated) rules and get yourself warned or booted off. Frankly, I've done some fairly hard core friend chasing and group inviting and never had a problem. I also appreciate the flip side -

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A friend recently asked me for some tips on using the command line on the Mac and so I put together some notes. I've expanded them and posted them to my Google Site.I give some tips on using the Terminal application, a couple of good ways to improve your bash sessions, a couple of handy ways of opening a man page and point towards a bunch of useful commands to have a look at.I will be having a

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I've been spending a lot of time working on ways of imaging a Mac so it has both OS X and Windows XP installed and ready to boot. Yes, I know there are easy ways, but I wanted a good one that left all the hard work to other people and software.Let me define the problem a little better. I have labs containing Macs that have to end up as dual boot. The Mac OS X image is no real problem, it installs

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I'm just starting to explore the possibilities of MySpace but already I have come up with some info and thoughts that are worth sharing.The first is that you have to be careful how you "pimp" your MySpace page. One of the most attractive things about Facebook is the clean interface and sparse look. It is much too easy to ruin a MySpaqce page so that it is hard to read and hard to find real

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If you are using twitter to keep your friends in the know on what you are up to and keeping track of them then you might like to know what else you can do with twitter.Since twitter is a stream of short text messages and it allows you to send directly to another account then it is fairly easy for software to monitor a twitter account and take an action according to the message and optionally send

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If you followed the advice in my previous article then your Mini-Feed might be looking a little empty, it appears not much is happening. Now we will start to get a good flow of information into the feed using another online tool - FriendFeed.FriendFeed is a little like twitter, it allows people who want to know what you are doing to 'follow' your FriendFeed. The power it has over twitter is that

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I was half way through a final edit on another article for the blog when I realised that some people might not understand exactly what was happening "under the hood." with all this information being passed between websites and from websites to a News Reader. The key to this are some formats known as RSS and Atom.RSS is the earliest of these formats, now it stands for Really Simple Syndication.

Honestpuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09711389927637772511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2500318551847413152.post-5490669116245974692008-05-07T21:43:00.000-07:002008-05-07T23:08:23.851-07:00

While waiting for me to finish editing my next "big" post here's a quick tip for you.Do you use a text shortcut utility? "What's that?" I hear some of you ask.It's a utility that allows you to automatically enter short pieces of text, either by replacing something you type or with a hot key such as CTRL-ALT-d. On my Mac I use an excellent, inexpensive one called "Text Expander". (If you know of a

Honestpuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09711389927637772511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2500318551847413152.post-37836955341517804042008-05-06T17:18:00.000-07:002008-05-07T23:08:57.137-07:00

In my last post I told you how to use twitter to update your Facebook status. Twitter is an example of what has been called "micro-blogging" - weblogging with small pieces of information. In this post I'm going to show you how to control your Mini-Feed so that it contains only things your network will find useful, encouraging them to follow the "micro-blog" on your FB profile page.We will need to

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A few people have shown some confusion about how to set everything up to get the best from twitter as a Facebook social networker. Since I am a self-confessed nerd I thought I'd explain.First, you'll need a twitter account. Go to twitter and sign up for an account. Now you can find your friends and sign up to "follow" them. This means that when they send a twitter message, sometimes called a "

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