A cool AppleScript to resize your wallpaper

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in mac os x | Comments

I'm a total wallpaper whore. Seriously. I have nearly 1GB of wallpapers (766MB) and I need them to work with my MacBook completely. In order to scale a mass amount of wallpapers at a time, I was trying all sorts ...

Radon–a super fast browser (quickie review)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in random | Comments

Got word on a new browser from someone on twitter... I don't follow them, but Dallas does and I happened to glance at her computer as she was on Twitter and saw he/she mentioned it... so sorry for not giving ...

An AppleScript to turn the brightness of your laptop display on/off

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in blog, info, mac os x | Comments

Yesterday at work, Eric was asking me if I knew of a way to immediately make the screen of his MacBook go straight to off (0 brightness). The only way I could think of doing such a thing was just ...

A near mishap involving my suP3r_5eCuRe password

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in blog, mac os x, random, rant | Comments

Given I am a web geek, I know the importance having a good password when it comes to sites like PayPal, eBay, Facebook, etc. all for the sake of not wanting my shit to get stolen, but every now and ...

syslogd and my wondering wtf is going on

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in random | Comments

So last night I discovered the Twitterverse screensaver in the Developers folder included with Xcode via TUAW and as I was trying to get the damn screensaver to work I noticed a problem I was having a while back... As I ...

Mike Rapin’s Guide to Web Searching via Quicksilver

Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in info, mac os x | Comments

So, there I was in my chemistry lecture, too lazy to reach into my backpack on the floor and pull out my calculator to solve a simple problem written on the board by my professor (who is a bad ass, ...

SNES and my Mac

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in random | Comments

So, I got the urge yesterday to play some Super Nintendo, specifically Super Mario World, but I don't have a Super Nintendo, so what's the next best thing?An emulator! Wow! For those of you who don't know what an emulator is... ...

Liveblog: 1.1.3 firmware for the iPod Touch

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in liveblog, mac os x | Comments

So here we have it guys, my restore of my hacked iPod and and trying out the normal 1.1.3. Lets see how this works... (Mind you I paid for the extra awesome apps: Mail, Stocks, etc.) 3:48PM - Seeing that I ...

Back to Firefox

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 Posted in mac os x, random | Comments

So, as I said a while ago, I had switched over to Camino until Firefox 3 came out... I lied. I managed to stick with Camino 100% for about 2 days before I started using Safari and Firefox. Why? Because I ...

3 advantages and disadvantages of Camino

Thursday, December 13th, 2007 Posted in mac os x, random | Comments

As of yesterday (12/12/07) I have decided to switch over to Camino (I'm writing from it right now!) from the ever-so-wonderful-but-not-so-Mac-or-Leopard-ready Mozilla Firefox. Mind you, I have only been using Camino for a little over a day, but I used ...