Apple - Pro - Tips - Seeing a Photo’s EXIF Metadata:
Preview can display all this EXIF metadata — you just have to know where to look. To see the EXIF data for the current image, just press Command-I, then click on the Details tab, and if you scroll down a bit, you’ll see a header for EXIF Properties, along with the full scoop on your image.
Friday, June 09, 2006
OS X Preview: EXIF data and warp drive configuration
I'm joking about the warp drive. Preview does bloody everything:
OS X Tiger can validate fonts!
Who knew? It's built in.
Apple - Pro - Tips - Checking for Bad Fonts:
Anyway, finding out which fonts on your system might be corrupt was no easy task, but in Tiger, it just got a whole lot easier. Here’s how to search for rampant font corruption: Go to your Applications folder and launch Font Book. You can either click directly on any font that you might think is suspect (look to see if the font is sweating), or Command-click on the fonts you want interrogated, then go under Font Book’s File menu and choose Validate Fonts. This brings up a Font Validation window and if your fonts are on the up and up, you’ll get a little round checkbox beside them. If there’s reason to believe something may be wrong, you’ll get a yellow warning icon beside a font. If it’s corrupt, you’ll get a round icon with an X in it, telling you not to use this font. Click the checkbox beside that font, then click the Remove Checked button to remove this font from your system.
iPod video goggles
These are not the Cringely predicted 'laser the retina' goggles. They're conventional LCD technology: Review: Video goggles turn iPod into TV - Yahoo! News.
Add noise cancellation, get some teens to wear them, and they'll sell on the airplane.
Add noise cancellation, get some teens to wear them, and they'll sell on the airplane.
Connect SATA or IDE device to USB - any!
Very nifty if it works. Quickly plug in any naked IDE or SATA device into a USB connection. $25. I'd wait to see if it actually works: NewerTechnology - ATA/ATAPI/IDE/SATA to USB 2.0 Universal Adapter.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Google Firefox Goodness: Browser Sync and updated toolbar
Google loves firefox. Now if only Firefox Mac would go Cocoa ...
Official Google Blog: Get in sync refers to a new sync tool (slows FF startup) and the updated toolbar.
Update 6/8: An unexpected benefit -- this makes Firefox a much better RSS reader, and it can now be competitive with Bloglines. Every machine can have the same RSS feeds, and they're readily kept in sync. I don't know if it syncs read status though.
Update 7/10: Uh-oh. Once I got to 4 machines synching Firefox, and multiple simultaneous sessions, things went downhill. Performance became pretty darned miserable -- even on a fast machine I couldn't tolerate the time it took for FF to starup. My cookies seemed to get trashed. I'm setting the utility so that nothing is routinely synched, I'll sync on a periodic rather than regular basis.
Official Google Blog: Get in sync refers to a new sync tool (slows FF startup) and the updated toolbar.
Update 6/8: An unexpected benefit -- this makes Firefox a much better RSS reader, and it can now be competitive with Bloglines. Every machine can have the same RSS feeds, and they're readily kept in sync. I don't know if it syncs read status though.
Update 7/10: Uh-oh. Once I got to 4 machines synching Firefox, and multiple simultaneous sessions, things went downhill. Performance became pretty darned miserable -- even on a fast machine I couldn't tolerate the time it took for FF to starup. My cookies seemed to get trashed. I'm setting the utility so that nothing is routinely synched, I'll sync on a periodic rather than regular basis.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Get a junk fax, earn $100
Brilliant. Vengeance for us, money to a set of deserving lawyers:
Learn How To Stop Junk Faxes With Fax Recovery Systems, Inc.They get $400, we get $100. Win-win.
...FRS makes it easy for you to fight the spammers. Simply print the Agreement and send it to FRS with the junk faxes you have received. You will receive a $100.00 check for each monetary settlement that FRS collects.
Using Onfolio IE toolbar as an RSS reader
I'm not interested in most of what Onfolio offers, but I do want to try their Read RSS News Feeds feature. Microsoft bought the product, so it'll be available through them soon. Meanwhile you can get it from the Onfolio site.
BTW, I tried the RSS reader in IE 7 beta. Lame! Surprisingly lame. What were they thinking?
Update 6/26/06: My copy of IE 6 has turned to bird poop. Is it the beta version of Windows Live toolbar? Was it my misguided installation of IE 7 beta two? I'm not certain, but I think Microsoft's idea of a beta is very different from Google's definition. Google's beta software performs like Microsoft's post-release rev 2 products. I am so avoiding Microsoft betas from now on.
I use Firefox for most things, but I need IE for work. So it's an uninstall until the next edition of the toolbar. Shame -- I really like the Onfolio product.
BTW, I tried the RSS reader in IE 7 beta. Lame! Surprisingly lame. What were they thinking?
Update 6/26/06: My copy of IE 6 has turned to bird poop. Is it the beta version of Windows Live toolbar? Was it my misguided installation of IE 7 beta two? I'm not certain, but I think Microsoft's idea of a beta is very different from Google's definition. Google's beta software performs like Microsoft's post-release rev 2 products. I am so avoiding Microsoft betas from now on.
I use Firefox for most things, but I need IE for work. So it's an uninstall until the next edition of the toolbar. Shame -- I really like the Onfolio product.
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