Category: Chinese, Mac, Tinkering, Web Apps, Windows | 1 Comment
Another hair brained scheme…
I woke up Saturday with an idea (which is actually a joke at our house now, “Guess what honey, I have an idea!”). I wanted to have a podcast of news bits that I could listen to while I did my morning routine - the catch being I wanted it daily, and [...]
Category: Mac, Tinkering | 2 Comments
If you are into playing emulated Super Nintendo games on your Mac OS X laptop, but find the keyboard awkward to use, and have a spare Xbox controller, and a spare USB cord laying around … have I got a deal for you.
(I should preface this with using game emulators and and game ROMS is, [...]
One of my presents this year was a program called Anime Studio. It’s a fun little program that you can use to create animations.
It works by adding bones to vector drawings, and then you animate the drawings with the bones. It’s quite fun.
I’ve been learning how it works by making silly, pointless movies. I showed [...]
Category: Linux, Mac, Tinkering, Web Apps | 5 Comments
The vast majority of the projects I have worked on were in some kind of source control. Lately they’ve been in Subversion, but before that most were in CVS. I’ve also worked on a couple projects that were using Microsoft Source Safe (I don’t even know if that’s still around).
Recently, however, I’ve been getting into [...]
Category: Linux, Mac, Ruby, Tinkering, Web Apps | 6 Comments
I’ve been interested in using Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) for server backups, but I couldn’t find a simple, straight forward howto. This is a walk though on one way to setup a Unix server to automatically backup data to Amazon S3.
I guess I should start out with what Amazon S3 is I suppose… It’s [...]