Zip Quick Look Plugin Quick Look has to be one of my favourite Leopard features. It looks good, works, and does so quickly. This plugin adds Quick Look for zip files.

Creating a Leopard Volumes Stack Now that network mounted volumes no longer show on the desktop, nor in the left hand bar of a Finder window. I’ve been looking for a quick easy way to see what volumes I have mounted and this does nicely. This is the only way I have found to see MacFusion mounts.

Hotspot Wireless Internet Access allows users to connect to the Internet from various public locations. It is a collaboration by Canada’s 4 (really 3, Rogers bought Fido) mobile providers. Accessing the system requires a mobile phone with one of the carriers for billing purposes. Bell, Telus and Fido (Rogers) offer an hourly rate, Bell $7.50, [...]

I often come across “Top $x OS X Applications” blog posts. I usually take a quick look, see the usual suspects and move along. Every once in a while I’ll find an application that fills my need. This happens enough times to keep me coming back. Today I came across Top 100 best open source mac [...]

I want an iPhone. Badly. But given the state of wireless data plans in this country, I’ll have to shut off all data transfers that do not occur over WiFi. My father recently purchased a game from his provider (Bell Mobility) for his phone. The game itself cost $3.99, the data transfer for the game [...]

After a lengthy outage caused by a ISP move, and shipping issues, I can finally start to blog again. My first photo has already been posted. Can’t believe I took this on July 1st. It really shows how long the ISP outage was. More to come….

My Saturday started off fairly normal. Took the kids to karate, quick lunch, build a shed. At 4:45PM EDT, that’s when things got interesting. I’d received an IM from Kristopher Tate, he was recovering the Zooomr PostgreSQL and needed some help. I’d offered him help during the initial 10 minute launch, and now he was taking [...]

Last night Zooomr Mark III launched. After a long week of “just a couple more hours”, “it’ll be up tomorrow”, “once this is fixed we’re done”, the highly anticipated site came back online to much fanfare. For 15 minutes. Normally, this type of outage would be chalked up to overload of the system. The Slashdot or [...]

I am a HUGE Heroes fan. From the very first episode, I knew it was going to be my favourite TV show (replacing a floundering Lost quite easily). Any TV that is worth watching is recorded on our Rogers PVR in HD, shows that are just on and we happen to “watch” are on the [...]

Recently Rogers updated the firmware of the Scientific Atlantic HD PVR they sell to their customers. While the updates are greatly appreciated. I can now start watching a program it’s recording from the beginning not where it’s currently playing live, and when the show ends, the playback no longer stops. Some other annoying features still [...]