So, the Time Warner guy was here the other day to fix our cable signal (the digital box was not getting enough signal.) About 5 minutes into the visit, the guy asks me where the connection comes into the house, so, I take him outside to show him. In route, I notice that he [...]
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Simply put, Lost is the best show on TV, bar none. I know firmly believe last year was a bit of a fluke in that it wasn’t on par with the other seasons. If you are not a Lost watcher, go get all the previous seasons on DVD and catch up. Last night’s episode [...]
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Took me a few minutes, but I was able to get OS X new Screen Sharing (dressed up VNC) to tunnel over SSH. Here’s what I did:
In Terminal:
Tunnel to the machine you want to connect to: ssh -L 2200:localhost:5900 myuser@mymachine.com
In Firefox (or Safari, etc.): vnc://localhost:2200
That command will launch the Screen Sharing app. Enter your [...]
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Trying my first iTunes rental today. The convenience is awesome, but I can tell already there is one thing I don’t like. Say I am traveling and I have a 3 day trip which starts with a 1-2 plane ride. If, as is my desire, I want to watch the movie on the plane, [...]
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OK, free idea that has at least one buyer, guaranteed!
Build me a computer keyboard that is easy to clean! I’m thinking like one of those stove tops, where you can just lift up the lid and run the cleaning cloth across it. Compressed air doesn’t really cut it and taking all the [...]
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Dear Apple iWork Team,
Have you ever heard of auto-save? It’s this handy little feature where you automatically save the document someone is working on in the background to a temporary file no matter what the user is doing. Yeah, it’s been in Microsoft’s products for years and years. Maybe you should [...]
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