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Doc wanted to know how to capture instant JPGs instead of TIFF files with Mac OS X. I sent him an email recommending SnapzPro X from Ambrosia. Great software, and cheap to… and it even auto-uploads via FTP if you want it to. Wow, I didn’t even know that.

I just re-read my business plan answers this morning, tweaked them a bit and am readying them to send off to my partners… Seems like I’m really gung ho for this stuff to get started, so that we all know it’ll end sometime soon (at least the hard part will end, and we can always [...]

Ken Bereskin has finally posted a new tip for Jaguar, this one shows how CMD+Shift+4 can be used to do a screenshot of a window, or selection area. Cool Ken. He also shows how it can be invoked from the command line…

This morning, I met Scott online, and gave him the moral support to get MT installed, because his Radio installation/use sucks due to the dependance of IE on Windows for a Rich Editor. MT doesn’t have a rich editor, and we can’t find one on google for Mozilla, but will continue to look, I’m [...]

Today, I took a long lunch at work, and went over to Dallas to start our hosting plan for the new venture at the Planet. We’re going with the entry level solution (slight modifications: see below) for now, as it’s a good deal, and more than we’ll likely need for the first 6 months, [...]

Here’s how not to get a job there. Thanks to Adam for writing it up… a little humor in my otherwise busy life. [via diveintomark].

missing that old Happy Mac Boot Screen?
Replace the current Jaguar boot screen with one of your own.
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I’ve never really looked into the backgrounds of our president’s advisors, but there is a great editorial here that talks about how lackluster the performance has been from them, and touches on why. Good read.

Well, I ran Drive 10, great application now that it’s at version 10.1.1. It pretty much sucked at verion 10.0. It fixed a few node errors that I had, and I really wanted to optimize the drive, but its a 20GB drive with only 2GB free, so it seemed like a sort of [...]

So, my iMac (bought in 1998) is currently in the shop getting the CD drive replaced (can you believe they sold me a 5 year warranty on that thing) which means that the iBook is getting quite a bit of use, much more than its used to, and that the little 20GB drive is full [...]

This is a test post using Kung-Log which looks pretty good at this point. I had to install SOAP:Lite for my MT implementation, and so that Kung-Log would work, but that really wasn’t all that tough, thanks to the excellent documentation of MoveableType’s authors…
On a side note, I’m noticing some display errors with IE [...]

I’ve wanted to display what I was currently listening to in iTunes for quite some time now, on my website, but I just hadn’t gotten around to it until now. Today marks the addition of “iTunes - What’s Playing Now?” to the sidebar of this weblog. “How’d he do it?” You might ask. [...]

Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
This is the lesson that Seth Godin wants you to learn in his latest prose. He uses Hershey, and their parks, compared to Disney and Apple to show you that Style is Free, just like Quality is Free.
Read the story here. I shouldn’t have to pay for style… [...]

Kalsey pointed out an article on Business Week Online called E-Commerce: It’s All About the Experience that makes the remark “A technically proficient Web site is just half the battle. Without quality service — and an enjoyable process — customers won’t return.”
The article mainly discusses problems in today’s e-commerce, and I see a lot of [...]

Apple got rid of the ‘happy mac’ icon greeting on startup that has graced the Macintosh for so many year with Jaguar. I’ve heard a lot of complaints about that, but the best comment I’ve heard so far comes from Andy:
“The smiling face is still there every time I boot my Mac. It’s just [...]

In case you didn’t know, Ken Berekstein, Mac OS X Product Manager, is attempting to blog the 150 new features of Mac OS X. Pretty interesting idea, and I hope he can keep up the momentum.
The real interesting part of this experiment by Ken, is that to me it really seems as if Apple [...]

Ever heard of it? I hadn’t until recently. I downloaded a report from the Vanderbilt eLab research manuscript area that describes Customer Centrity as “… maximizing the understanding of our customers within a time frame and a context ñ short of long duration ñ to achieve business objectives and maximize customer value.”
I read over [...]

Lately, I’ve been reading Gonzo Marketing, and just ordered Cluetrain Manfesto from Amazon, and I have to say that I agree with a lot of what they books are about. Mainly that traditional marketing and mass media approach to the internet are all wrong (from what I’ve read so far).
So today, while watching the [...]

“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back” — Chinese Proverb

I’ve been thinking about testing MovableType for a while… and today is the first day I’ve gotten around to trying it… we’ll see what becomes of this…