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« Previous EntriesUninstalling Evernote (Mac)
Friday, November 13th, 2009I’m documenting my uninstall steps for Evernote build 62233 on OS X Snow Leopard
I tried Evernote for a week. Despite the decent user experience, the system didn’t catch on, so I wanted to remove it. Turns out that it doesn’t have an uninstaller, not even a command-line uninstall script. Neither the support website nor the [...]
Post-Migrated Mac Taking too Long to Shutdown?
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008I ran Migration Assistant to copy the account on my MacBook Pro to a desktop Mac (as in an iMac, Mac Pro, or perhaps even a home-spun concoction if you are so willing?)
After doing so, I found that restarting, shutting down, or logging-out took way longer than expected.
Running console, I found the following message shortly [...]
Uninstalling RazerPro Mouse Drivers on OS X Leopard (SteerMouse FTW)
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008I was already using SteerMouse, but wanted to try out the RazerPro 1.6.x drivers for my Razer Diamondback on my OS X Leopard system, only to find out that I should have just stayed with the tried-and-true SteerMouse.
The Razer website provides the following instructions for removing the RazerPro drivers from one’s machine:
There are 2 methods [...]
Schweet…
Sunday, April 27th, 2008Quick weekend project: I had an existing XP machine and frankensteined most of those parts into a new case, power supply, motherboard and hard drives. With two Mac notebooks, a couple of iPods, and a 5-user license for Leopard, it was time to experiment with getting OSX to run on “foreign” hardware. The new case [...]
TextDrive (Joyent) Dissapointments
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Last April, after one too many dissapointing experiences with Dreamhost, I switched my hosting provider to TextDrive. They were recommended by several highly-respected folks who were also their customers. Unfortunately, the service — now officially under an obscurely named product owned by Joyent — has taken a quick turn for the worse.
If you’re shopping around [...]
Great Book Idea
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Great ideas are often spawned over impromptu IM conversations.
During a recent conversation with former Yahoo! colleague, fellow raconteur, and soon-to-be author Dustin, we discussed the awesomeness of the idea for a technical pop-up book.
Said popup book would need to have at least one pop-up of… pop-up windows. It’s the kind of keen self-referential metaphysical reference [...]
Quick Tip: SVN over SSH using TortoisePlink
Sunday, July 29th, 2007This place is as good as any to jot down the following tip…
TortoiseSVN kicks ass. Of course, there are times when it’s more practical to use svn in the command line, but if your repository only talks to you over ssh, instead of going through hoops to configure OpenSSH, just use TortoisePlink. It’s part [...]
An Explosion in JavaScript
Saturday, May 19th, 2007At my new job, I had the pleasure of writing my first two games. What made this especially fun is that they are games written in JavaScript.
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to write a videogame. Sure, I wrote one in BASIC (didn’t we all?), and a few lame attempts in C [...]
Friggin Wordpress
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007Currently wrestling with Wordpress issues (the software behind this blog). The different look and feel is the result of having to use a temporary template.
I think comments work now, though. Thanks to those who emailed me about it. I’m also testing out a simple captcha to see if it reduces comment spam.
Switched Hosting Provider
Monday, April 9th, 2007If you’re reading this, that means you’re reading from my new hosting provider.
For the last year, my old hosting provider’s been having some real downtime problems. This, of course, took me right back to the “you get what you pay for” model of life. Fortunately, the free-market model makes it easier to find a better [...]