On October 20, 2012, my iPad went missing. I knew I’d last seen it at church, which in my case brought some comfort, because the people at this church are, for the most part, a pretty trustworthy group. Still, not everyone in even a good church is a saint, and besides there are visitors who …
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OS X’s Wimpy Finder
Normally I am pretty positive about all things related to Mac OS X. However, despite some nice features, I have to say that the OS X Finder is one of the weakest links in the operating system. In particular, it fails woefully at something very commonplace and important to many routine computer tasks: copying or …
Orbitz, CheapTickets … Who Copied Whom?
Here is a screen shot comparing, side by side, the flight search results on both Orbitz.com and CheapTickets.com: Note the similar layout, same search results, same wording, same abbreviations, same pretty much everything, except the colors, theme, and a few minor layout differences. The results are so similar, it appears they may be using even …
OS X: Create a Command to View UNIX “man” Pages as PDFs
A website tipped me off to a Terminal command that lets OS X users (the geekier ones) view UNIX “man” pages* as PDFs. However, since the command is long, it would be hard to remember and difficult to type. I wanted to make an alias (a custom UNIX command) that would be shorter, but Bash …
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iPhone Nature Kit
I read a post called iPhone Survival Guide, about how your iPhone (or iPod touch) could be useful in an emergency. It’s worth checking out. That got me to thinking about how an iPhone (or iPod touch) could be used for nature activities in general. The iPhone has a clear advantage over the iPod touch …