Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: Technology

Adobe + Macromedia?

Well, the entire blogosphere is going to be twittering about this for months: Adobe is buying Macromedia for $3.4 billion. This could be cool (think the Adobe Creative Suite with Flash and Dreamweaver instead of GoLive), or it could be the ultimate death knoll for Apple. If Apple continues to piss off Adobe with products […]

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On Yahoo! 360.

So good old Min Jung Kim pinged me with a friend request for Yahoo! 360°, and like a good little technology ho, I signed up. For a couple of minutes I was thoroughly annoyed at the idea that I would have to reconfigure everything, start a new blog, start a new photo album service… “Screw […]

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An area ripe for improvement.

So I spent a big chunk of this afternoon trying to get my Quicken for Mac up to date, and once again I was floored by how utterly broken it is. Much like my utterly abysmal experience with QuickBooks for the Mac, Quicken is riddled with problems and errors, and they’re bloody blatant to boot. […]

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From sThig: Poser and a WACOM tablet in workflow.

So this morning’s discovery of joy is An Artsy Fartsy Blog by illustrator Scott “sThig” Thigpen, who is one of my favorite artists on the scene today. Cheating, or not? is his post describing how he incorporates Poser, a Wacom tablet and Illustrator into his workflow. I’m sitting here reading this with my jaw hitting […]

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On RSS aggregators and WebKit.

If I had known on Monday how this week was going to go, I’d have started labeling each post with a big GeekWeek tag. Hmm. Maybe next week. Anyway, the point of this post is another idea that just popped into my head. Check out PulpFiction, an “Advanced News Reader/Aggregator for Mac OS X”. Now, […]

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Comments/keywords/tags in EXIF?

So here’s a gripe – why is it that despite the growing popularity of applications like iPhoto to manage one’s photo library, there seem to be no ‘keyword’ or ‘description’ tags in the EXIF metadata for photographs? Or am I missing something?

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I needed that.

So this week is Yahoo!’s 10th birthday. As a part of their celebration, they’ve posted their homepage, circa 1995. I loaded that page up and suddenly I was sitting in the library at The College of Wooster, poking around on one of their few web-enabled terminals, reading Wired with near-religious fervor (hey Derek, remember they […]

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On syncing AirPort Expresses.

So there’s a new app called Airfoil that lets you stream any audio feed to an AirPort Express station. Seems like a good idea to me. What bugs me about it, though, are these passages from their FAQ: Why does the audio lag?    Because of the way the AirPort Express works, there’s a delay from […]

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Lazyweb request.

So I’ve been tinkering with Skype, and it’s really impressive. The only problem I have is that I’m already a big iChat AV user. How difficult would it be to build an iChat – Skype bridge? You know, make the sucker totally transparent, so that anyone online with a Skype account would show up in […]

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Still not right.

So it’s possible that “Quackers”, the new version of 43 Things will come through and boggle my mind with its actualization of all my hopes and dreams, but I doubt it. I’m having one of those weeks where I’m getting fed up with not having the system I want in place, and am revisiting the […]

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