The Hackintosh is a pretty compelling way to get Mac Pro performance for the price of a Mac Mini. To achieve this, you build a custom Windows-style PC using components that are known to work with Apple’s Mac OS X, and then use low level software tricks to make OS X work on this non-Apple [...]
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My Gmail practice
A friend asked me recently how I keep track of what needs acted upon in Gmail, where messages live forever in the “archive”. I replied with the following and thought I’d post it here in case it’s useful to anyone else. I claimed earlier that I would post stuff like this on Practict, but I’ve [...]
Poor man’s Skitch
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Poor man’s Skitch, originally uploaded by TfUnQ. You can approximate Skitch with the Quicksilver “Screen Capture” and “Upload to Flickr…” actions. Just capture part of the screen and choose the Run [...]
[PSA] when you receive "noname" attachments
If you ever receive messages with file attachments called "noname", here’s what’s up. There’s a problem in Gmail in parsing messages sent with Apple’s Mail.app. It seems it’s mostly Apple’s fault. But since Gmail still hasn’t solved it, you can work around it with this web utility.
Software activation woes with SAS
Forgive me for venting again about a bad experience with a company policy. This times it’s software activation. Maybe if everyone complains, something will change. I’m trying to do my research today in JMP by SAS. I used to use R (FLOSS software yay) but I have to use JMP in a research methods course [...]
