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Category: Doing

  • Leopard’s teething troubles

    The Mac Mini woes con­tin­ue. We’d recently taken advant­age of Apple’s UpToD­ate pro­gram to order OSX Leo­pard. It arrived last week, and install­a­tion ensured. And it looked great once it was com­plete! But, the kick­er was, it would­n’t recog­nize our Win­dows shares, or NFS shares, or Samba shares. Seems this is a known issue so,…

  • Apple iPhone and iPod Touch viewers needed

    I’ve just installed the iPhone and iPod Touch com­pat­ible theme/plugin for Word­Press (iWPhone) by Content.Robot, and have no way of test­ing it. There’s a Safari iPhone browser emu­lat­or avail­able if you’re run­ning a mac, but alas, I’m a PC guy. So, hence this call for test­ers; Is any­one out there able to hit this site and…

  • New Flight Simulator on the block…inside Google Earth?

    Yep, late last week the boffins at Google updated Google Earth. The flag­ship fea­ture was the addi­tion of Google Sky, an astro­nomy map­ping feature. Also included was a little-known Flight Sim­u­lat­or. Very cool! While not tech­nic­ally on par with Flight Sim­u­lat­or X as far as actu­al sim­u­la­tion, the coolest fea­ture is the use of Google’s satel­lite…

  • This will surely free more of your valuable time

    Tim Fer­riss (4 Hour Work Week) lists 9 items in his ‘Not To Do List’ that make sense and will free up your time. I already do num­ber 1, and try to do num­ber 4: 1. Do not answer calls from unre­cog­nized phone num­bersFeel free to sur­prise oth­ers, but don’t be sur­prised. It just res­ults in…

  • Occasionally, everyone needs one…

    I was Stum­bling this even­ing and the FreeHugsCampaign.org site appeared. I’d kinda heard of this previously…and hey, it was men­tioned on Oprah, so it must be import­ant right? Regard­less. With a com­bin­a­tion of online tools provided by Flickr and BigHugeLabs, I man­aged to cre­ate this lovely, inspir­a­tion­al image of one of my mini Daschunds, Heloise. Hug…

  • The essential Palm Pilot file manager — free!

    I like free. I also like great applic­a­tions that work as expec­ted, espe­cially when they’re free. Suf­fice to say, I like Palm Com­mand­er. Palm Com­mand­er used to be a com­mer­cial product, but the author has gra­ciously decided to give it away…so you will need a regis­tra­tion code to activ­ate it. Just fol­low the activ­a­tion link…

  • One year of OpenDNS

    Yep, the free ser­vice that I use to replace my ISPs DNS has turned one. It’s been quite a year of growth, and I star­ted using OpenDNS back in March, but for me, it’s been pretty smooth. The coolest fea­tures that I use are short­cuts and spelling cor­rec­tion. If I type want to vis­it this…

  • How Canadians save money when buying books through Amazon.com

    If you’ve ever noticed the pri­cing on the back of a paper­back avail­able in Canada, you’ll notice that there are two prices lis­ted; US and Canadian. With the cur­rent exchange rate (1.064 USD -> CAD) I thought I’d run a quick ana­lys­is on pur­chas­ing four books from Amazon.ca and Amazon.com, and see which would be…

  • Taking the ‘Chris Brogan’ challenge

    Well, not really a chal­lenge, but more of an oppor­tun­ity to flesh out my About page a bit by adding to it in a format that Chris sug­gests. A Quick Sketch Bio­graphy of Brad Gri­erThe thing most people know me for is…likely my pas­sion for things tech­no­lo­gic­al. Yeah, I’m a bit of a geek; I…

  • My ‘I might be crazy’ goal: wake up at 5:00

    I’d read this cool post on the 10 Bene­fits of Rising Early, and How to Do It, and, after care­fully review­ing the sec­tion on how to do it, thought I’d give it a chance. Don’t make drastic changes. Start slowly, by wak­ing just 15–30 minutes earli­er than usu­al. Get used to this for a few days.…

  • Fast, free and effective Palm Pilot backup with NVBackup

    Earli­er this morn­ing I had des­paired; my Palm Pilot had fallen and could­n’t get up. It had crashed. Hard. I had to force a Hard Reset to even get it back to the fact­ory default condition. I’d lost my ebooks, sched­ule, con­tacts, everything. Sure, it was backed up on my com­puter, in a backup folder,…

  • My GTD weekly review killed off my morning

    Ok, as I said pre­vi­ously, I’ve fallen off the Get­ting Things Done (GTD) band­wag­on and am slowly climb­ing back on. Today, being a Monday, it’s my day to do my Weekly Review — gath­er up all the out­stand­ing items, tasks, pro­jects, and oth­er unor­gan­ized ‘stuff’, pro­cess it, and then review EVERYTHING. “Hello, After­noon? Yes, it’s Brad…