The personal website of Matt Henderson.
01 September 2004
So I was taking care of business this morning, realized somebody had shuffled off with my usual reading material, and subsequently had an idea for Apple's Next Big Hit—the iPotty. I think the sketch speaks for itself, but we're talking about a wall-arm-mounted, pen-operated, Airport-connected, tablet iMac. Somebody forward this to Steve please.
28 August 2004
Ok, I must still be heavily under the influence of my pre-OSX days, but the following just amazed me: Today I was synchronizing my G5 to my Powerbook, and realized that Sync Pro X was reporting 3.00 GB of data needing to be transferred. I looked at the throughput meter in the Powerbook's menu bar and saw 1.3 MB/s. Ugh—I forgot I was unplugged and the Powerbook was connected via WiFi. I wondered if I could just simply plug in the Ethernet cable during the middle of the data transfer operation, and just gave it a try. The throughput jumped immediately to 8.7MB/s. That's amazing—the system just transparently switched from one network interface to another (the faster one), right in the middle of a transfer.
27 August 2004
After fighting with OmniWeb 5 in an effort to get bookmark syncing to work with a WebDAV server, I finally (through the help of Omni support) got everything sorted. Turns out, OmniWeb can not sync bookmarks to the root of a webdav server — you must sync to a sub-directory. Why? No idea. But since I created a dedicated DAV area on my G5 for the purpose of syncing, I had no reason to create a sub-directory. As a result, I was seeing all sorts of weird behaviour — the server specification wasn't preserved in the Preferences, unread content was sometimes appearing in duplicate. Anyway, glad it's all sorted now. In a few days, I'll be posting instructions on how to setup WebDAV on MacOS X.
23 August 2004
I've been using OmniWeb 5 for a week or so now, and I really like it. As has been written elsewhere, one trades off some stability and rendering capabilities for some very nice application features — features which one can get used to very fast! I've heard OmniWeb 5.1 is on its way, and following is my wishlist:
21 August 2004
Erik asks about athletes as role models, and I responded with my thoughts.
19 August 2004
Had this guy not stubbed his toe at the end of July, the USA would have surely swept all the golds in springboard in Athens.
19 August 2004
13 August 2004
I was quite annoyed today after spending a few hours capturing screen video clips sourced from DVD using SnapzPro 2.0.1, to find that only the video track was saved in the movie. No audio track was saved. The Ambrosia support area didn't provide any solution, although a few people on their boards talked about replacing .kext files (something I didn't want to get into.)