Apple

Keynote timing unravelled: it’s not good, but it’s a reason

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Finally figured out the Keynote nonsense. Apparently, the timer doesn’t start counting until the slide and everything on it–and possibly the next slide as well?–is completely loaded. The transition seems to start (n) seconds after the “Ready to Advance” indicator in the presenter view flashes. I can see where that makes sense, actually, in an […]

Timings: first major Keynote gripe

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

I’ve been using Keynote as my major presentation tool for a while now. It rocks the socks off PowerPoint, as far as I’m concerned. Today, though, I’m having a devil of a time getting it to do what I want.
I have a 5:12 QuickTime movie that I want to play in a slide, and […]

Mixed Networks Admin.: A Little tlp

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

To get back a little more into tech content:
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time with a lot of xterms open: local session, ssh sessions, database connections, you name it. Keeping track of all those windows can get confusing, especially if you aren’t always at the same physical console. Different […]

Apple and Open Source: Tigers Just Don’t Change Their Stripes

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

The other day I [took Laurie at TUAW to task](http://www.tuaw.com/2005/05/12/if-you-like-safari-youll-like-shiira#comments) over her suggestion that Apple implement [Shiira](http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/index-e.html)’s “Tab Exposé” feature in Safari:
>> It’s a surprisingly handy feature that I implore Apple to add to Safari itself. Are you listening, Dave Hyatt?
>
> Probably, he is. But here’s an idea: why don’t we encourage people to support […]

SSH vulnerability?

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

There has been a lot of discussion in the OpenBSD community (and probably elsewhere, but OpenBSD has a special relationship to OpenSSH) over a paper published by some MIT students regarding a supposed SSH exploit. OpenBSD being the system of choice for the Practical Paranoid (as well at the pratically paranoid and plain old […]

Touchscreen iBook?

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

Ok, to save myself from the accusation of rumormongering, I’ll just say that this is a fact. More than a year ago, Apple, as reported last night by [The Mac Observer](http://www.macobserver.com/article/2005/05/10.18.shtml), filed a patent ([No. D504,889](http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=ptxt&S1=D504,889.WKU.&OS=pn/D504,889&RS=PN/D504,889?tMoJk)) for an undescribed “electronic device”. That device, it seems from the illustrations, is a touchscreen of some […]

Open Source for Academics (Part I)

Friday, April 29th, 2005

*Or Why You Should Stop Using Word.*
Don’t get me wrong, Microsoft makes a decent word processor, in fact a decent office suite. Office has unsurpassed functionality, isn’t really as bloated as a lot of open source types would have you believe, and crashes far less than it used to. If you’re like me, […]