http://www.danielbergey.com/weblog Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:58:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I use OpenDNS for DNS resolution (the way domain names match up to websites) on my home and office networks. My favorite feature is their URL Shortcuts. I have a bunch of them set up to quickly search various sites I use often: Keyword Website g ... http://www.danielbergey.com/weblog/2008/07/20/opendns-shortcuts/ Rands In Repose posts a list of peoples' personal quirks that he gathered via Twitter. I share a bunch of them, but I've got a whole pile of unique ones, too: I always make sure the paper coffee cup's seam (and sleeve fold if there is one) is directly below the ... http://www.danielbergey.com/weblog/2008/07/19/quirks/ I finished a consulting project yesterday that had been taking up most of my free time for the past couple of weeks. It has been nice to relax so far this weekend without that constant worry: "Isn't there something else productive that I should be working on?" And for the ... http://www.danielbergey.com/weblog/2008/07/04/july-4th-notes/ Context: On February 17 of next year, analog television stations will cease broadcasting. This will no doubt upset a lot of people living in rural areas who do not currently pay for cable. Fortunately, the government is partially subsidizing digital converter boxes for those who do not yet have a ... http://www.danielbergey.com/weblog/2008/06/01/i-hereby-declare-the-digital-television-transition-a-success/ A week or so ago, we had tornado watches/warnings in our area. I decided to use Yahoo! Pipes and Twitter to make an early alert system. Weather.gov already offers a ton of XML & RSS feeds. I just needed to filter out the events and areas that didn't apply, so ... http://www.danielbergey.com/weblog/2008/03/23/weather-twitterbot-for-greenvillespartanburganderson-sc/ Safari 3.1 is finally out, and it's fast. There's a new Develop menu, and the Web Inspector has received some welcome polish. But there is one expected feature that is missing in action, described in the post "Web Inspector Update" on the WebKit blog: Inline CSS EditingThis is the biggest new ... http://www.danielbergey.com/weblog/2008/03/18/safari-31/ Not sure what happened here, but my Dock is still like this: Closed: Open: http://www.danielbergey.com/weblog/2007/11/12/when-stacks-go-bad/ These are just a bunch of small things that either I've noticed or have been pointed out to me about Leopard: iChat supports IRC-style status updates. You can type "/me is installing Leopard" into an IM window, and it will display it in a style similar to iTunes track notification messages, ... http://www.danielbergey.com/weblog/2007/11/08/notes-on-leopard/ Amazon.com just opened what looks to be the most worthy iTunes competitor yet. Purchased tracks play on nearly every media player ever made, since they're DRM-free MP3s. And at 89--99¢ (with variable album pricing), they're occasionally more economical than iTunes'. So let's do a price comparison of some music old and ... http://www.danielbergey.com/weblog/2007/09/26/amazon-mp3-store-better-but-not-the-best-value-of-all/ We spent last week in Maryland, visiting with my family. I planned to work some of time we were there, and when I pulled my Mighty Mouse out to use it, I discovered that it had been damaged in transit. Or at least it appeared to be; the side-squeeze buttons ... http://www.danielbergey.com/weblog/2007/09/25/the-tale-of-the-wireless-mighty-mouse/