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Today I have another tip for people switching to a new Mac. Synergy is an open-source application that will let you share your keyboard and mouse across multiple systems. I’ve had pretty good luck with it in the past, so I thought I’d give it a try on the Mac. After a little Google searching, I found an OS X front-end for Synergy called SynergyKM that adds an option in the system preferences to manage it.

As you can see in the picture above, I have the iMac with a second monitor, and a … Continue Reading

During the first few days of using a Mac at home I had a few frustrating periods of confusion when discovering things work differently than what I expected.

For example, on a Mac the home key takes you to the beginning on the document you have open and the end key takes you to the end of the document. The Mac zealots who stuck with Apple through the bad years and never spent much time using Windows, KDE, Gnome, CDE, or any other windowing system might think this is normal, but to anyone who has used anything other than a Mac … Continue Reading

I finally made the plunge. About 10 months ago I posted about why I had not purchased a Mac. Well, now I finally bought one. It’s a 20” iMac with the Core 2 Duo processor. I actually got a fairly good deal using the corporate employee purchase program (EPP) at the local Apple store, and got a free all-in-one HP printer/scanner/fax machine after a rebate.

With about 3 weeks of using the Mac , so far I’m happy with my purchase. I have had a few problems, mostly resulted from my lack of knowledge of how to do various tasks … Continue Reading

Last weekend was my graduation ceremony. I now have a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science. I think it’s pretty cool, but now I have some serious thinking to do about my career.

I should have worked to complete my degree immediately after high school, but I wasn’t really interested in it at the time. I attended community college for a couple years, but never finished. The funny part of my not completing my time at community college is that I was originally majoring in whatever their computer programming degree was at the time. I took a class on systems … Continue Reading

Last weekend I installed a Scosche FM-MOD01 Modulator in my 2001 Chevy Blazer. Now that I have used it for a full week I can share my opinion of it. The Scosche FM-MOD01 Modulator is a wired FM Modulator that adds RCA jacks to a car stereo without them. Instead of using my old battery powered FM transmitter with my iPod, the new modulator allows me to tune my factory radio to a certain station and plug the iPod into a wired in headphone jack.

The purchase
I purchased the Scosche FM-MOD01 Modulator from Crutchfield.com and received it within a couple days. … Continue Reading

Six months ago I wrote about how excited I was that I discovered it was possible to add a line in jack to my factory car stereo so I could play my Ipod without the little FM transmitter. Yesterday I finally broke down and ordered the Scosche FM-MOD01 Modulator from Crutchfield. Before I talked about how it was only $30. Well, its still $30 but required an additional $20 in adapters for it to work in my Chevy Blazer that uses some wierd, smaller than normal antenna plug. I swear it won’t take me another six months to install … Continue Reading

I don’t know if its because of their trying to compete with Google in the cool factor or what, but Yahoo has released some cool libraries and design pattern docs for creating interactive sites. I want to play with it sooo much right now, but I have a midtern in statistics tomorrow. Anyway, even if I don’t use their code I will be using it to learn how to do some cool things for a project I’m trying to figure out right now. Check out the Yahoo! UI Library and the Design Pattern Library.

I’ve finished the lift kit on the Cherokee, so if you are interested check out my writeup of the project. I’ve been driving the Jeep with the new suspension for a couple weeks now and everything seems be be okay with it.

Tonight I finished the last assignments for the fall trimester at school. Of my 3 classes I know I got an A in one, expect to get an A in a second, and am pretty sure I will get a D in the third. Windows Administration and Business Communication were both a lot of work, but not difficult. Calculus was bad. I actually feel like I learned a lot while getting the worst grade of my college career. In any case, it should not hurt my GPA too much, and should be acceptable to let me graduate in two more … Continue Reading

I’ve got most of the parts for the lift kit for the Cherokee. I’m keeping a running journal of the experience. Check it out.