The hardest bug to fix
The hardest bug to fix is the one that doesn't exist... keep reading
I suppose I haven't been tortured enough in my life about my last name
Thanks, Facebook... keep reading
Cats and Mouses
My cat killed my bluetooth mouse with one deadly swat yesterday, so I'm back to using my wired mighty mouse. I think I've accidently clicked the side buttons about a hundred times in the last 18 hours. I guess I know what my iPhone credit is being spent on... keep reading
JTree Row Selection and PGnJ 0.8 Preview
I have been working on PGnJ 0.8 since the day I released 0.7. With this release I really wanted to concentrate on further refining the application rather than adding new SQL related features. By adding an About box, a Preference System, Software Update and refining the row selection behavior of the main JTree in PGnJ, I think I succeed in my goal... keep reading
Software Engineering and Elevators
I just read this really interesting article about something called destination-based dispatching and how it is used in elevator design and it made me think about how being a software engineer can lead you down so many different roads, but in the end, you're solving problems by writing software... keep reading
(In)consistency
I've spent the past two days dealing with inconsistencies in RSS feeds across sites. There are a lot of tools out there to help ease the pain, but if you aren't going to put what I actually want into the feed, why can't you at least keep things consistent on your site so that I can figure out another way to get what I want?.. keep reading
A Nokia branded iPhone
This Nokia is designed just like an iPhone. Right down to the slide effect while moving from photo to photo and the zoom to fade while moving applications... keep reading
Feed Issues
I think I finally have all of the feed issues ironed out with the site. I added auto discovery and some necessary includes on the generated xml file. I'm going to double check everything later, though... keep reading
Happenings at trikenit.com and slicedsoftware.com
Starting Thursday night, I pushed a new slicedsoftware.com to the web. Once I finished this, I tore down trikenit.com and setup some mod_rewrite rules to redirect every trikenit.com/* link to slicedsoftware.com/*... keep reading
Jing - Quickly Share Screen Captures
For the past few weeks I have been using an application called Jing. Jing is by far one of the most useful applications I have ever used. With Jing, you can quickly capture your screen as an image that you can annotate with Jing's annotation tools or as video. Once captured, you are given a chance.. keep reading
I guess I'm not alone
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/487-what-if-i-actually-like-html-css-and-javascript.. keep reading
Lorgio on Fedora
Lorgio: 'fedora is nice!' Lorgio: 'not like mac nice' Lorgio: 'but linux nice' .. keep reading
Camino 1.5
Camino 1.5 went gold yesterday. I have been using the betas for a while and I must say that no matter how many other browsers I give a little bit of face time (firefox, safari, shira, omniweb), nothing can even touch Camino. Camino just blows them all away... keep reading
MySpace - The Worst Site On The Internet
Knowing how much I hate MySpace, a friend of mine sent me this link... keep reading
Helpful Distortion
37signals' blog linked to a really interesting take on the NYC subway system map... keep reading
I Wish People Would Stop Saying Thunderbird 2 Has Gmail Integration
I wish people would stop saying Thunderbird 2.0 has Gmail integration. It doesn't. It has an option, when adding an account to say this account is a Gmail account. When you do that, you just have to enter your username and password. This is a glorified shortcut. You choose 'Gmail account' and it set.. keep reading
Gotham Ruby Conference?
I went to a ruby user group last night in the city with Lorgio and they mentioned a conference. Figured they meant the Rails conference in Oregon. Found out this morning they meant the Gotham Ruby Conference, being held at Google. What the heck? How about emailing the real rails mailing list about t.. keep reading
Joost: Initial Thoughts
I received my Joost invitation a few days ago. I have a few quick thoughts I would like to share: It takes a really long time for the Mac client to start. Once it finally starts, the overlay interface is pretty neat. The first day I used it, things wouldn't stream properly at all and I figured t.. keep reading
Basecamp & Highrise
This is the first week I really made a conscious effort to start using Highrise, 37signals' new online contact manager. I could see right away the benefits of using Highrise in a multi-person company. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) it's just me. But I figured it would be smart to start keeping emai.. keep reading
I Accidently Deleted a PGnJ Feature Request
I doubt the person that sent me that feature request just a few minutes ago is looking at my blog, but someone sent me a feature request and it ended up in my gmail account's spam. I'm pretty crazy with keeping that spam folder empty and I've never seen a false positive so I just select all and dele.. keep reading
Google Corner Links Updater [Greasemonkey]
whipped up a quick Greasemonkey script to update those handy corner links in Gmail and Calendar... keep reading
UK The New San Angeles, CA 2032
With the United Kingdom adding loudspeaker systems to their already vast system of cameras that keep an eye on public happenings, the United Kingdom should think about changing their name to San Angeles, California and pretending they live in 2032. The only catch, Taco Bell is a delicacy... keep reading
Yes, Adium, I Read The Release Notes
Adium 1.0b12 was pushed out today and as I went through the release notes, I came across: Recipe for french toast: 1. Get into vehicle. 2. Go to location that sells french toast. 3. Order french toast. 4. Enjoy. So, I would like to just say: Yes, Adium Dev Team, there is _someone_ who actually.. keep reading
Hide That Pesky Gmail Invite Box
I found this neat css you can add to your `userContent.css` file in Camino or Firefox to hide that annoying invite box in Gmail... keep reading
My Suggestions To Digg
As I am sure you know, a lot of times, the same story will be dugg up to the front page multiple times. This happens because the person who is submitting the URL to digg is submitting a different post about the same story... keep reading
Have I Ever Told You…
http://www.trikenit.com/2006/07/27/have-i-ever-told-you/.. keep reading
Digg Is Too Popular
With the rising popularity of Digg, the number of articles that make the front page have seriously increased over the past couple of months. Way too many posts coming through on the feed. So, I did the only thing possible to make me sane again, I decided to unsubscribe from the main Digg feed and subscribe to the digg / Technology feed. Goodbye, video after video of nothingness... keep reading
Sometimes, Applications Make Me Laugh
Although my default browser is Mozilla's Camino, I do find myself in Firefox when I need to debug some serious javascript (FireBug is really excellent). Well, I was tooling around my latest web app in Firefox and started thinking, 'Gee, these widgets look like trash'... keep reading
Red Sweater’s FlexTime
When Daniel over at Red Sweater posted about FlexTime the other day, I immediately thought about automating something for the code for 50 minutes - break for 10 minutes thing I always read about on productivity sites but have never tried... keep reading
Copy & Paste on a Nokia E61
Copy & paste on a Nokia E61 is so intuitive, that it's sort of odd to figure out. How do you do it?.. keep reading
e-series.org For All of Your E-Series Fixins
Now that I am the proud owner of a Nokia E61, I have to make sure I'm on the up and up about all things E61. Luckily, e-series.org has me covered... keep reading
Symbian Auto-Receive and Gmail’s POP3 Implementation
Symbian's auto-receive feature on the Nokia E61 is pretty great way to avoid getting a Push email service like blackberry connect. Unfortunately, when trying to use Gmail's POP3 with Symbian's auto-receive, you run into a few issues... keep reading
News Readers and Productivity
I've been using a news reader for over a year now, and I have noticed a lot of interesting things when it comes to productivity. I started with the famed NetNewsWire and with the launch of Reader and my love for all things Google, I gave that a try. After a while, I moved back to NetNewsWire... keep reading
rm -r *
This is probably one of the scariest things you could ever hear. I can picture myself dashing across the room and yanking the phone out of the women's hand and screaming, "don't do it!"... keep reading
Make It Easy: fsck
When you have to run fsck, run it with the -y flag so that it runs in non-interactive mode. It will automatically say yes for every inode it asks you to reconnect... keep reading
Vista feature: Transient MultiMon
Vista feature: Transient MultiMon - I am here to happily announce that my MacBook Pro already does this. Thanks, Apple! Just for a quick example, I have a 20.1" viewsonic LCD on my desk at work and every day I connect my MBP to it. I have my MBP directly in front of me and the LCD directly behind my.. keep reading
Happenings
About a month ago, I set up a new domain to house my software and decided to stop posting here at trikenit. Well, now that the semester is over and things have really calmed down in all aspects of life, I have decided to go back on my decision slightly. I do enjoy writing and although I don't do it .. keep reading
Sliced Software - A Fresh Start
For a long time, I have wanted to ditch Trikenit. I’m not really sure why, I guess I just felt like I have had this domain for so long that it was time for a fresh start. I have owned this domain for, I would say, close to five years. The content of this site has changed over time to reflect what .. keep reading
PGnJ 0.5 - It’s Here
http://www.trikenit.com/2006/04/05/pgnj-05-its-here/.. keep reading
Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle
Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle (Via digg.).. keep reading
“Study: Prayer doesn’t affect heart patients”, Go Figure…
Study: Prayer doesn't affect heart patients: "In a study done by the Templeton Foundation, researchers found that the heart patients that were 'prayed for' had a slightly higher rate of complications." (Via digg.).. keep reading
Does Wireless Internet Access Increase Attendance?
I've owned a laptop since my second semester at school, but I never really brought it to class because it's big and heavy. Now that my macbook pro is on its way, I plan to start bringing it to class. Since, I'll have a laptop on campus all the time now, I registered for a wireless account. I'm wonde.. keep reading
Am I Just Forgetting Something?
I found this really strange issue with Firefox today. After taking out all of the different variables I realized that when I set the width of a select control using inline CSS, the functionality gets buggy... keep reading
XP Boots on an Intel Mac
Who would have thought that the person who finally got XP to boot on an intel mac would take the time to make a really nice boot loader? Machine Boots up, you get the apple logo, press the down arrow key, get the windows logo, press enter, off you go into windows. Now that dual boot.. keep reading
Good Design is Good Design
I love the way the 43 Folders site is designed. That is all... keep reading
Vista Won’t Support EFI - Booo Hooooooo
Again, I just want VMware for Mac OS X! I don't care about dual booting! Dual booting is for people who don't have VMware and I guess some other people who actually want dual booting. I guess I just never caught on... keep reading
Ben Goodger on Firefox 1.5’s “Memory Leaks”
A back-forward history cache in Firefox 1.5 is the cause of complaints about memory leaks in Firefox, according to Ben Goodger. In another victory for Firefox (albeit a small one), my friend Dan (always a dedicated IE user) from school sent me this IM last night: if (ie7.getBugCount() = BrowserBe.. keep reading
Gaim 2.0 Beta 2 is Top Shelf
I don't see how Gaim 2.0 Beta 1 could have been so much worse than Beta 2, but it was. Or maybe it's just that Gaim 2.0 Beta 2 is amazing. Honestly, the best IM client you can run on a windows box. I mean, I like Google Talk and all, but it doesn't mesh with AIM yet so I can't really compare it to G.. keep reading
Ads & Trikenit.com
Let me start by saying that I don't like ads. Despite my not liking ads I think that there are tasteful ads (textual, relevant ads) and extremely untasteful ads (everything else). Yesterday, I realized that trikenit.com has been generating a ton of traffic from people searching with phrases like "un.. keep reading
Ebay & Their Reluctance To Localize
Could someone please explain to my why ebay doesn't localize times for the user who is logged in? I bet that most of the ebay users from the east coast have fumbled at least one auction because they forgot the auction's end time was listed in PST... keep reading
FreeFM, David Lee Roth & Satellite
I live on Long Island. On Long Island, I was able to listen to Howard Stern every morning on the way to work. Now that Howard has left 92.3 KRock for Sirius, 92.3 decided to change their name to 92.3 FreeFM (Free FM). What a krock (get it?). Now, they've got David Lee Roth in Howard's old s.. keep reading
Recovering Addict
I've been doing pretty well the whole "don't obsessively check my news reader" thing. The successful first step was definitely moving back to NetNewsWire so that I didn't have access to my up to date subscription list everywhere I was. The second and almost as important step was to remove the link t.. keep reading
End of The year
Well, the end of the year is upon us. It's been a pretty decent year in my neck of the woods, but I have to admit that I'm more excited about the start of 2006 than the end of 2005. I have so many ideas and plans for the coming year that I'm just so ready to start already. Anyway, thanks to everyon.. keep reading
K2 Beta 2
As soon as I noticed that beta 2 of K2 was announced today, I updated trikenit.com with the new iteration. Very easy update. I noticed a bug where the sidebar on the main page always said something like "You are currently browsing the trikenit.com archives". I checked K2's bug tracker but someone ha.. keep reading
First Look: Camino 1.0b2
I swear, those Camino developers are some of the best I've ever seen. I've never seen a program come so far in so little time. Amazingly, beta 2 is leaps and bounds ahead of beta 1. I don't know how they do it, but whatever it is, I hope they keep it up. If I had even the slightest doubt since the .. keep reading
I’m An Addict
http://www.trikenit.com/2005/12/29/im-an-addict/.. keep reading
Trikenit.com Has Been Completely Updated
A couple of nights ago, I upgraded trikenit.com to use Wordpress 2.0, which by the way is awesome. This afternoon, I finally found the theme I've been searching for: K2. I had the day off, so I figured today was the day to get the site all straightened out. Over the past few weeks I've been skippin.. keep reading
Blond Joke
I know it's kind of out of place, but this blond joke is hilarious... keep reading
Review: Ultimate Ears super.fi 5 Pro
I think of myself as an audiophile. I designed and installed a front stage sound system for my car using focal speakers and xtant amps. I care about how my music sounds. I only rip cds, I don't download music. Before last night, my car was the only place I felt like I could listen to music, the wa.. keep reading
Things That Will Be Happening
I'll be writing some reviews on iPod related things: Ultimate Ears super.fi 5 EB super.fi 5 Pro iHome alarm clock and iPod dock PodGuard, which I actually did put on my iPod JavoEdge screen cover which I plan to replace the podguard with DLO Jam Jacket for iPods with video I'll be posting.. keep reading
jEdit Syntax Package
Well, the integrated jEdit syntax package may be in and back out of PGnJ before ever making into a release version. Alright, so it highlights things nicely, but honestly, it's kind of annoying me. It eats every key in sight. I have to maintain keyboard shortcuts in multiple places (bad thing). I did.. keep reading
Dear Santa,
I just sat down to program. Rather than listen from iTunes, I grabbed my iPod and set it to shuffle all songs. NIN's The Day The World Went Away came on and I said to myself, 'gee, I'd like to listen to all NIN songs (I have halo 1 - 18) on shuffle, but I want to hear the rest of this song'.. keep reading
The Future of Windows
A couple of years back, BMW decided it was time to upgrade their 5-series. The BMW 5-series has long been called the most elegant, perfect sedan ever to to be created. Even with this sort of perfection, BMW couldn't upgrade features without redesigning the entire car. When the newly redesigned 5-ser.. keep reading
CSS Comments in Internet Explorer
http://www.trikenit.com/?p=148.. keep reading
iBook In a Microsoft Ad
Update: They changed the image. I guess it really was an iBook. If you take a look at the bottom right image at the header, you'll notice the corner of an iBook. Way to go Microsoft's Marketing Department. Bill's going to have someone's head for this. (via digg).. keep reading
Gmail’s Web Clips: Follow Up
I feel like my last post came off more as a bashing of web clips, rather than what I really wanted it to be: pointing out the fact that the Gmail team added an option that allows somone to turn web clips off completely. I understand that web clips aren't for the dedicated reader. It seems to me, tho.. keep reading
A Day With My 30GB iPod (w/ video)
I had a meeting in the city yesterday. I live on the north shore of Long Island, so I figured on taking the train in: a perfect opportunity to watch some video on my iPod. A few minutes before I left for the station, I bought the first two episodes of Monk, season 4, off of the newly replenished iTu.. keep reading
“Tiny, Light - And The Wrong One!”
I ordered a PocketDock combo on November 30th and today, I received a PocketDock Line Out FW. AAAAHHHHHHHH! Okay, no problem I'll just send it back. Wait, wait, SendStation is in Germany! AAAHHH!!!!! Oh, well. I would have probably kept it if it was a Line Out USB, but honestly, how often do you co.. keep reading
Dear Firefox Developers,
I've already come across a few rendering enhancements and bug fixes to the Mozilla's gecko engine as of Firefox 1.5. For instance, I designed this menu system that uses javascript to attach menus that hang out in a really high z-index (above the rest of the page) to an item in the menu header on mou.. keep reading
Still Waiting On iPod Goodies
I still haven't received the podguard film or pocket dock I ordered :-( I have hope, though, that when I get home serious goodies will be waiting for me!.. keep reading
Get On The RSS Bandwagon
Do you subscribe to site feeds? No? Okay, well do you periodically check the same sites over and over to read the latest posts or articles? Do you see yourself going to engadget, digg and slashdot a few times a day? Well, then why not get on the RSS bandwagon? It's easy, and there are enough news re.. keep reading
Sleeve Saves iPod From Sticky Soda Spill
That handy little sleeve that comes with the new iPods saved my iPod from a river of soda when I accidentally knocked over a large cup of soda. I'm pretty clumsy. Note: iPod never even realized there was soda on the sleeve. Sleeve returned to normal color within a few hours... keep reading
Please Update Your News Reader
If you come to the site, you may notice that I put a few new buttons in the sidebar. In addition to the feed buttons, I decided to stop hosting the site's feed and have feedburner host it instead. The url to the new feed is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Trikenitcom. So, if you're reading this in your.. keep reading
Dear Comment Spammers,
Trikenit.com gets comment spammed pretty often. Fortunately WordPress's default action is to ask for approval of a new commenter. Not that it matters really because WordPress's other default action is to add a nofollow to the links you try and comment with so google won't crawl your site (which is w.. keep reading
Paypal is Great
I love being able to buy things online without having to worry about my credit card. Since I picked up my new iPod, I bought a podguard film and a pocket dock. When I was about to pay at each of those sites, I was delighted to see the "Pay with Paypal" option. Not only did I not have to spend time .. keep reading
Firefox + del.icio.us = Even Better!
I'm not sure when this showed up, but those cool del.icio.us people have a Firefox extension that adds a couple of buttons to your toolbar for getting to your delicious bookmarks and for tagging the current page (in a small window). The extension also adds del.icio.us search to the search field in .. keep reading
I Bought Music From The iTMS
I honestly never though I'd do it, but I bought an album last night off the iTunes Music Store. Why? Well, I was working on this project (code named: time turner) that I started a few days ago, while listening to my iPod. I was signing along to this great song by Jeru The Damaja (disclaimer: I don'.. keep reading
Hogwarts Never Looked So Good
Last night I followed the how to rip dvds for an iPod video using Handbrake how-to and successfully ripped Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. After a 3hr long 2-pass ripping, the 141 minute movie weighed in at a reasonable 538MB. Playback is amazing; perfectly crisp with beautiful colors. I'.. keep reading
First Look: iPod with Video
When Apple first announced the iPod Photo, I said "why would you want to carry around your pictures?". I owned a 15GB, 3G iPod at the time and to me, the only appeal of the Photo was the color screen; not enough for me to pick up a 4G. When Apple announced the 5G iPod with Video, I said "I have no.. keep reading
AIM Triton: Part III
My first post really brought out some comments. The most notable was a comment from Kevin saying that there is an uninstaller in the C:\Program Files\AOL\Explorer\ directory that will let you uninstall AOL Explorer while letting you keep AIM Triton. I gave it a whirl with a fresh install of Triton,.. keep reading
Trik·en·it not Trike·nit
I bought this domain name a long, long time ago. As soon as I started giving the address out I got comments about how difficult it was to remember and just how it was a terrible domain name in general. Well, I've tried to change it, I really have! I just never could think of one. Now, it looks like .. keep reading
Permalinks
I just turned on mod_rewrite and I have WordPress generating some really nice permalinks for all of my posts and pages now. All of the old links out there (?p=#) will still work fine, but now whenever you link to a post here, you'll have a nice pretty link to look at... keep reading
Firefox + del.icio.us = Darn Tasty
I use three computers on a regular basis: an iMac, a Windows laptop and a Windows desktop. While on Windows, I will only touch Firefox. While on my Mac, though, I use Camino, Firefox and Safari. Because I am constantly using five different browsers, about a month back, I decided to take the del.ici.. keep reading
AIM Triton: Part II
I decided to give it a second chance. This time when I ran the installer, it told me it was going to install AOL Explorer and asked if I would like to set it as my default browser. Alright, I would still rather it not be there at all, but I'm happy now that they at least let the user know what they.. keep reading
Directv DVR vs. DirecTivo
If I decide to get a DirecTivo, I better act fast. Despite offering DirecTivos, Directv is pushing their dvr, hard. If you call to order a dvr from Directv, you'll be sent their own dvr box unless you specifically request a DirecTivo. Although I've heard some decent things, through Engadget, about D.. keep reading
If You Like To Waste Time…
Forget that you can't apply overflow directly to a td, but rather must wrap the content within the td in a div and apply the overflow property to that... keep reading
Dear AOL,
In my book, you have just ruined the last chance you had at putting out a decent piece of software. AIM Triton, the new AIM beta, looked quite promising, despite installing AOL Explorer without asking me. You let me uninstall AOL Explorer while leaving AIM Triton, so I didn't hold a grudge for too .. keep reading
Tab Changes Coming Soon
http://www.trikenit.com/?p=112.. keep reading
SSH Speed Increase?
I've noticed recently that I have been able to ssh out of and into my iMac much faster than I have ever been able to. In fact it used to take so long that I did a little research about it and found that it was a common problem in OS X. I wonder if one of the recent updates (10.4.x) fixed the ssh slo.. keep reading
Ticket Tracking System
http://www.trikenit.com/?p=110.. keep reading
FreeBSD Logo
I'm a loyal FreeBSD user and the new logo (which is terrible compared to the old logo (pictured at the right)), isn't going to change that. But, boy is that a terrible logo... keep reading
Reader Article List Better Than Ever
I may favor keyboard shortcuts over using a mouse, but for those who don't, you can now use your scroll wheel over the article list in Google Reader to scroll. That's pretty neat, if you ask me... keep reading
Google Reader Updated!
Is someone out there in Googleland reading my blog? Probably not. But at least they squashed my number one annoyance of Reader: the fact that you must leave an article before the article is marked as read rather than marking the article as read as soon as the article is moved to. This also kills the.. keep reading
Gmail: Timestamps
I accidently noticed that if you hover your mouse over the date or time displayed in an email's summary line (in your inbox, for instance) it displays a full timestamp. Very neat... keep reading
Personal Update
A couple of weeks ago, I finally sat down and created a new resumé. I scrapped what I've had in the past and started with a clean slate. I gathered together the various software projects that I have been working on over the past few years, at least the ones I thought were interesting enough, and wr.. keep reading
Update: Google Reader
It's official, I've gotten used to looking at a list of articles rather than articles separated by feed. Changes I would make include: cutting down on empty space; shrinking the controls and article list on the left side; marking an article as read as soon as the article is opened on the right side .. keep reading
User Interface Design
I prefer designing and implementing web based software. Why? Because I love user interface design. And to me, the perfect place for user interface design, is on the web. Although I enjoy all aspects of software development, I find nothing about designing software more exciting then designing an inte.. keep reading
Google (Maps) Local
I just noticed that when you type an address into the search field, rather than keeping the split view (information on the left, map on the right), Google has dropped the information on the left and made the map fill the entire area below the search field. It makes sense considering you used to see .. keep reading
Words of Wisdom
Seth Dillingham: “Never spend an hour doing by hand what you can spend four hours automating.” Via Brent Ranchero.. keep reading
Review: Google Reader
After using Reader for a few days, I've gotten used to the fact that my subscriptions aren't going to get updated as frequently as I want. Aside from that, I've also gotten used to the interface. It definitely takes a little getting used to, especially without new articles coming in frequently. Alth.. keep reading
Google Reader: Day 1
When I got home from work, I exported my subscriptions out of NetNewsWire and imported them into Google Reader. I realize that Google Reader will, by default, only show new articles (new meaning things that are added to feeds after the feeds are subscribed to). So, I have had NetNewsWire open as wel.. keep reading
Google Reader
Google has just launched a news (feed) reader called, you guessed it, Reader. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was reading up about Atom and RSS for a project. The project was a web based news reader. I guess it's better now that Google launches this thing rather than after I launched mine, .. keep reading
Maps + Local = Local
In an obvious move that I've been waiting for since Google Maps came around, Google has apparently merged Google Local and Google Maps completely. Google local has already sported links to maps in Google Maps, but now it seems that the Google Local two text field search interface has been completely.. keep reading
Acquisition Of NetNewsWire
Well, I didn't hear the rumors until yesterday morning, but that didn't stop Brent from selling NetNewsWire and getting on the NewsGator band wagon yesterday afternoon. Brent has posted a nice little piece addressing NetNewsWire users about the acquisition and the people over at NewsGator have post.. keep reading
Gmail: Auto Save
Auto save. Now that's useful. I find myself saving drafts frequently while writing an important email. One time in particular, in the days before drafts in Gmail, I accidentally Apple-Q'd my browser and lost the email I was writing. I guess what I'm trying to say is that, in my opinion, Gmail has b.. keep reading
Don’t Wait, Get Vista Today, Buy A Mac
It's ridiculous that Windows Vista is going to have all of these new features. These things are all available in OS X already. Spotlight? Dashboard? Please. Microsoft has no innovation left. Yeah, they had to rewrite the entire operating system from the ground up and that's what has kept them busy, .. keep reading
NetNewsWire
I love NetNewsWire. When I'm at home, on my iMac G5, I can just open up NetNewsWire and I get all my news (currently from 29 different sources). It's easy, it's fast and I don't waste any time doing it. From the way you can navigate the entire application using only the keyboard to the way that 'ope.. keep reading
Show Hidden Files in Finder
Show hidden files in the Finder with: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles ON.. keep reading
PathFinder
Alright, I think it's safe to say that I gave PathFinder a fair chance to try and impress me. One week and the only thing I found useful was the fact that you can show hidden files in the file browser, something you can't do with the regular Finder. And I think it's safe to say that the amount of an.. keep reading
Overwhelmed Arena
I'm not one of those crazy 'I have to have every widget' widget people. In fact, I'm even less of a game person. When it comes to widgets, I have a lot installed, but I only keep a few open (calculator, dictionary, google maps, weather). But, after reading this post over at tuaw, I decided to give O.. keep reading
Find A New Blog
I just got wind that Google launched a new search: Google Blog Search. Definitely an interesting idea. Apparently the search only indexes off of a blog's feed. So why don't you get out there and find yourself a new blog. Just don't leave mine, please! I wonder if the idea of the blog search is to fi.. keep reading
iPod nano - TV Ad
I was just watching TV and saw the iPod nano TV ad. Wow, I really can't get over how darn small that thing is! I'm glad the Apple Store is closed right now, because I may have gone out and bought one without thinking about it anymore..... keep reading
New Web Host
There are a lot of things going on around here latley. I ditched my old host in favor a much more feature full (and expensive, ouch!) host. This host allows me full access to the web server and I can also do things like host J2EE applications (which is the reason I went with this host). I plan to st.. keep reading
Apple/Motorola ROKR (re-write)
UPDATED: I decided to re-write a few posts. This, being one of them. Although, as of late, I have been a Nokia user, I have to admit that I like the design of the recently introduced Motorola phones. What has kept me from buying a Motorola, and instead, going with a Nokia 6681, ar.. keep reading
iTunes 5 (re-write)
UPDATED: I decided to re-write a few posts. This, being one of them. I remember hearing Steve talk about Spotlight for the first time. He said, and I (kind of) quote, "we were looking for a new way to implement this instant search and then we realized, we already had it; iTunes. Yo.. keep reading
iPod Nano (re-write)
UPDATED: I decided to re-write a few posts. This, being one of them. I wasn't sure how small this thing really was, until yesterday when I took a look at the dimensions and compared them to my shuffle (oh, and I saw these pictures). This thing is small. I mean, this thing is reall.. keep reading
Atom vs. RSS
I started doing some research today for this project that I'm starting. The first order of business was to learn about and compare the Atom feed standard and the RSS standard. I found a great wiki that compares the newest version of both; Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0. Just from a quick read through, it seem.. keep reading
Automator: Edit With vi
Start with 'get selected finder items'. Then pull over a 'run applescript'. Paste the following script in: on run {input, parameters} tell application "Terminal" activate if (the (count of the window) = 0) or ¬ (the busy of window 1 = true) then tell application "System Ev.. keep reading
Vi
Out of all the text editors out there, nothing beats vi. I love vi. It is simple, powerful and fast. Vim runs in graphical environments and works like vi. It's ported to every operating system I can think of, so why not give it a try? It can be a little intimidating at first, but once you get the ha.. keep reading
Gmail: Web Clips
Recently, web clips were added to my gmail account. Honestly, I wish it wasn't. It's terrible. It is a complete waste of space. I thought maybe they would be useful, but I don't want to see random articles. I would rather just fire up my news reader and make sure I see all the articles. If google wa.. keep reading
Google Talk
I wish I had more time to write. When I do find some time to sit, think and write, I will definitely be giving my opinions about Google's Talk. My main feeling though, is of disappointment. For the time being, here is a great post about the situation. Update: the drunkenbatman pos.. keep reading
Podcast added to Oxford Dictionary of English
Podcast added to Oxford Dictionary of English "Below are some of the new words to enter our most recently published dictionary of current English: the Oxford Dictionary of English (Revised Second Edition)." podcast * noun a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar programme, made ava.. keep reading
Review: Mighty Mouse
After missing FedEx on Thursday, I finally got my Mighty Mouse yesterday afternoon. First of all, what a terrible name. I think I will just stick to calling it Apple's multi button pro mouse. After reading that: Mighty Mouse even sounds as good as it feels. The audio feedback built into Mighty Mous.. keep reading
Mighty Mouse
Yesterday morning, shortly after I read through the Mighty Mouse page on Apple.com, I ordered one. Also, because I can never control myself when it comes to shipping, I got 2nd day on it. It should be showing up, via FedEx, tomorrow. All I have to say is that I am afraid that without any tactical fe.. keep reading
Piki
I wrote my own Wiki Software. It's called Piki (Personal Wiki). It is log-in based and each personal wiki is completely private. It uses a subset of Wikipedia's WikiMarkup. Once I add a public, create account page, I'm going to post it for anyone's use. It is pretty neat and only took about two hour.. keep reading
Google: movie
Go to Google and type in the name of a movie thats playing now. Or, prefix anything having to do with a movie with "movie:" and showtimes (if any) will be displayed for you. If you click a showtime, it brings you to movietickets.com to make the purchase... keep reading
Nokia 6681: The Best Phone Ever
Check out my flickr photoset. I'll write a full review of the phone soon... keep reading
Series 60
Dear Series 60, I'm sorry I ever left you. I don't know what I was thinking. I have been with many phones since I was with you and it was just never the same. I can't wait until you are mine again (please come with my phone already fed ex!). I also can't wait to install putty for symbian... keep reading
Longhorn’s Offical Name is Windows Vista
Slashdot | Longhorn's Offical Name is Windows Vista (Via /.) The first thing that came to my mind was George's dad saying "Del Boca Vista!".. keep reading
Test drive this hybrid vehicle
Test drive this hybrid vehicle: " Posted by Lars Rasmussen, Maps Engineer Can't decide between looking at a map of your house or a photo of your house? See both at once with Google Maps' new Hybrid mode, available in the US, Canada, the UK and Japan. " (Via Google Blog.).. keep reading
Tip: Exclude Words From Your Google Search
Prefix a hyphen to any word in your Google query to exclude it from the search. For example: hibernate map -mapping.. keep reading
Hibernate Forums
I have been pretty unhappy with the hibernate forums lately. It makes me think that no one has done anything that isn't specifically in the manual. Bunch of amateurs... keep reading
Project Management
It's getting to be about that time at my job where we really need to implement a project management solution. I found out about Trac, via adium, and really like it. I love that it has an integrated wiki as well as ticket tracking. Unfortunately, Trac only supports Subversion and we currently use CVS.. keep reading
Fun With Reflection
//snippet html.append("<td>" + EvalHelper.returnIfNotNull( workCenter.getWcType(), "getFullName") + "</td>"); //static helper methods public static String returnIfNotNull(Object obj) { if(obj != null) .. keep reading
Tip: Get Current URI With EL
${pageContext.request.requestURI} I need to set up a wiki... keep reading
Time Sensitive Tasks
After checking out Backpack today, I started to get interested in J2EE based approaches to time sensitive tasks. I found that the J2EE 1.4 spec comes with a Timer Service. Essentially, you can create timers that can be triggered at specific intervals or at specific times. For more information about.. keep reading
Backpack
Personal and small business information manager: Get organized, Backpack: Earlier this morning I set up a free backpack account. So far, I really, really like the application. Not only is the interface amazing (ajax can do wonderful things) but the idea and functionality of the application is really.. keep reading
Homemade Air Conditioner
Homemade Air Conditioner, originally uploaded by trikenitdotcom. Yesterday afternoon, I made an air conditioner. I attached 1/4" copper pipe to the front and rear of the fan cage in a spiral. I then attached the two pieces of copper pipe together with a piece of 3/8" clear tubing and then,.. keep reading
Flickr
I decided to take the plunge into Flickr. I've heard a lot about it for a while now, but I didn't decide to make an account until tonight when I wanted to post some photos of this homemade air conditioner I made for my room. I will post more about that at a later time. But for now, check out my phot.. keep reading
Google Currency Conversion
Google's built in calculator functions now support currency conversion!.. keep reading
Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project
My development team at work recently made the move from the standard Eclipse IDE to the Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project. The WTP is still in development but is extremely stable and adds some much needed functionality to the standard Eclipse package. When you have luxuries such as jsp and xml synt.. keep reading
Tip: View Selected Source With Firefox
I have been bouncing between browsers a lot since I bought my iMac. One of the features that I realized is amazing and completely over-looked in Firefox, is the 'view selected source' option. Highlight part of the page that is currently being displayed in Firefox, right-click and select 'view select.. keep reading
Google Earth
Google never fails to amaze me with software they come up with. I just took a look at Google Earth, which is essentially Keyhole with built in Google Searching and 3D data of a few cities. Tilt and rotate about a point, enter an address and fly over to it a few seconds as the entire city passes by. .. keep reading
AjaxTags Works Wonders
Frank W. Zammetti of omnytex has done something amazing with AjaxTags. I have never been more impressed with the J2EE world. AjaxTags essentially lets you ajax enable a any struts form without writing a single line of Javascript. This, of course, is the greatest thing ever to a person, like me, who .. keep reading
J2EE & AJAX
Edit: I am currently looking into AjaxTags for Struts. More to come at a future date. It seems that all of the J2EE applications I am currently working on are all benefiting greatly from AJAX. Though, the extent to the AJAXified features have been "limited" to searches, AJAX helps .. keep reading
PGnJ 0.4
This morning, I posted a big update to PGnJ. In version 0.4, I added a lot of functionality including detailed database information as well as overhauling the interface. I implemented a great extension to Apple's LAF called Quaqua. I think PGnJ is starting to look and feel like a mature application,.. keep reading
Dell Would Sell OS X
via TUAW: Although, I can't see this happening right away, if ever, because of what it would do to the sales of Apple hardware, this would really be something awesome. I wish I could run OS X at work and x86 is my only hope!.. keep reading
EDIT: Thank you TUAW!
I just sent off a plead request to TUAW to post an 'Ask TUAW' about where I can pick up some free-to-use icons for PGnJ. I hope they are listening! Thank you TUAW!.. keep reading
First Impression: iPod Shuffle
Last night, I decided to pick up an iPod Shuffle, for no particular reason. I already have a 15GB third generation iPod that I don't use that often, so why did I get a Shuffle? Honestly, I have no idea. I just felt like buying one. Since the Shuffle came out, I agreed with the no-screen philosophy. .. keep reading
PGnJ 0.3 - Bug Announcement
This technically isn't a bug, but the query used for getting table info in PGnJ 0.3 is a little slow, as mentioned in my previous post. It will return, eventually, on large databases, but just be advised that it runs very slow. In the next release I will implement a new query or a different way comp.. keep reading
Query Optimization
I wrote a (very ugly) query to get column names, types and primary key constraints on a give table. Although it works on small databases and eventually works on large databases, it takes an huge amount of time to complete on databases with a lot of tables and a lot of constraints. How can I.. keep reading
PGnJ 0.3
Last night, I posted version 0.3 of PGnJ. Although this project is definitely still in development, I think it is really starting to come together. I added some features like export to CSV and HTML. After writing those exporters, I decided that in a future release I would reimplement the export syst.. keep reading
Tip: Grep Non-Matching Lines
To select non-matching lines with grep, invoke with -v... keep reading
Unified Look in Safari
A few week back, I read some where that you could change Safari's look from Metal to the new Unified look available in 10.4 Tiger. After searching the internet for a few minutes I came across a comment in one of Brent Simmons' (the man behind Ranchero Software) posts with a quick how-to. R.. keep reading
PGnJ 0.2
I posted a big update to PGnJ today. The way the UI functions has been completely rewritten and I have added a ton of new features as well as re-implementing basically every feature from version 0.1. Check it out!.. keep reading
Interesting SQL Queries for Postgres
As I continue to develop PGnJ, I am finding interesting ways to get all the data that I think should be immediately accessible through the interface without having to hand write SQL statements. I use the following two queries in PGnJ, and even though they aren't too refined, they get the job done fo.. keep reading
Cringely Does Not Know What He Is Talking About
In PBS | I, Cringely . June 9, 2005 - Going for Broke (via tuaw), this guy, Robert Cringely, believes that Apple is being bought by, or merged with, Intel in an attempt to take down Microsoft. Let's go through his points, shall we? What happened to the PowerPC's supposed performance advantage o.. keep reading
Tip: Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts Speed Up Development
Eclipse is a great Java development platform. One of the reasons I love developing in Eclipse is because it is extremely keyboard friendly. Here are a few keyboard shortcuts that I find useful: Comment out a single line or multiple lines at once: COMMAND + / on any single line or when multip.. keep reading
WWDC 05
I finally was able to watch Steve Jobs' keynote from this year's WWDC. Steve was really pushing the idea that Apple still has PowerPC products in "the pipeline". Honestly, though, I can't imagine Apple actually bringing anything new to the market with a PowerPC after announcing they are ditching Pow.. keep reading
PGnJ 0.1
http://www.trikenit.com/?p=9.. keep reading
Thoughts On The Move To Intel
(This is my first trackback, I hope it works alright) My main question when this all started was: "will I be able to run OS X on my Dell at work?" Unfortunately, Apple has stated that they will not be supporting just any x86 hardware, but rather, Apple machines will just start shipping with .. keep reading
WordPress + MarsEdit
Today, as you can see, I replaced my old, static website and installed WordPress. After trying other, similar applications, like Drupal and TextPattern, I headed into WordPress feeling as though the installation would be an experiment, rather than an instant success. I like WordPress so much that wh.. keep reading
PGnJ
http://www.trikenit.com/?p=3.. keep reading
PowerPC vs. x86
Apple announced yesterday at the WWDC that they would be switching from PowerPC to Intel's x86. The difference between PowerPC and x86 is that PowerPC is a RISC processor, where x86 is a CISC processor. A CISC, or complex instruction set computer, processor offers a large set of instructions for a b.. keep reading
