http://ings.ca/jim Rants and raves on (mostly) technology Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:52:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “When we all think alike, no one thinks very much.” –Albert Einstein http://ings.ca/jim/2010/06/28/thinking-alike/ “Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.” –Abraham Lincoln http://ings.ca/jim/2010/05/27/there-is-no-substitute-for-preparation/ “I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.” –George S. Patton http://ings.ca/jim/2010/04/30/measure-a-mans-success/ As an amateur photographer, I've taken a lot of pictures that I'm quite proud of. So naturally, I like displaying them on my desktop. But I've gone through a few phases on how to do this... In the "old" days, I used to use a random wallpaper switching program, but the ... http://ings.ca/jim/2008/11/24/photojoy/ I got my first digital camera back in 1999, which was a Sony Mavica (MVC-FD83), where the FD stood for 3.5" floppy disk! [caption id="attachment_119" align="alignnone" width="200" caption="Sony Mavica MVC FD83"][/caption] Considering that megapixels, USB and memory cards weren't available yet, being able to save photos to a floppy was actually convenient. ... http://ings.ca/jim/2008/11/17/renamer/ If anyone is using a dock program like ObjectDock, RocketDock or RK Launcher then you have to check out this Docklet by Matías Moreno. It emulates the Stack feature that was introduced in Apple's OS X Leopard. Although a dock provides a great way to clean up the icons on your ... http://ings.ca/jim/2008/11/06/stacks-docklet/ If you read my earlier post on RocketDock, this is a related "rave" on ObjectDock (v. 1.90). Both programs try to bring the main feature of the Dock in Mac OS X to the Windows world. Although I'm still a big fan of RocketDock, I wanted to customize the look and ... http://ings.ca/jim/2008/05/14/objectdock/ I'm probably going to make myself sound like a dinosaur with this post, but do you remember the old days when DOS was king? Well, I do and I miss being able to copy an entire program like WordPerfect 5.1 to a floppy disk and copying it on to another ... http://ings.ca/jim/2008/05/09/portableappscom/ When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee. A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly ... http://ings.ca/jim/2008/04/15/the-mayonnaise-jar-and-2-cups-of-coffee/ I consider myself a desktop fanatic when it comes to a clean desktop -- I don't like icons on my desktop and I like my windows to be neatly arranged. So when someone resizes or moves one of my windows, I wince at the thought of knowing I'm going to ... http://ings.ca/jim/2008/04/13/allsnap/