Cybernetic Salad

Sun - November 4, 2007

DP Autochanger Reaches End of Life

I wrote the first version of DP Autochanger for Mac OS 8, but there won't be a version of it for Mac OS X 10.5 and beyond.

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Thu - August 9, 2007

Sharing Rich Media Documents for Mere Mortals

What's the best way to share complex or large documents with other people? Sometimes email just won't do.

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Sat - June 30, 2007

A Day with the iPhone

It's been about 24 hours since I got my iPhone. How did it do?

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Mon - April 9, 2007

Grandpa Carlile

Thoughts on the birth of my first grandchild.

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Sun - February 18, 2007

Daydreamer Pricing

Pricing software correctly is not easy.

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Sat - February 10, 2007

How I got my job

It's a little silly to talk about how I got the job I just retired from, but it's such a great story that I can't resist.

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Sat - February 3, 2007

Going Independent...With A Twist

It has become traditional of late for folks leaving their day jobs to make a post to their blogs observing the transition. Here is mine.

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Sun - January 14, 2007

Tales of WWDC - 1987

One in a possible series about WWDC. This one takes place in 1987.

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Sat - September 2, 2006

WWDC in Decline? I don't think so

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Sat - July 15, 2006

Quantifying Picture Differences

Not really motion detection, but more useful in a programmatic way.

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Sat - June 10, 2006

Using an iSight with Daydreamer

How to use a local iSIght camera with Daydreamer.

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Other Uses for Daydreamer

As I tell people about the program, it seems to me that Daydreamer is like the Elephant and the Blind Men.

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Mon - March 20, 2006

Client PKI (x509) Certificates with Mac OS X Server

Integrating Mac OS X Server into a PKI sounds scary and hard, but it really isn't. This article will teach you how to set up Mac OS X Server to authenticate PKI (or x509) client certificates for static web pages, WebObjects apps, Perl CGIs and PHP.

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Thu - November 24, 2005

TIme Shifting Radio without killing your iPod Battery

Listening to your favorite programs on your own time is great, but if your programs are longer than 15 minutes, your battery charge doesn't last very long. Here's how to get around that.

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