Category Archive for 'tech'

“code” Blogging

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

It’s not as nefarious as the title may have mislead you to believe. Quite simply I needed a way to post some simple HTML code. I asked the author of Sosuke.com, “What’s the best code presentation method within wordpress?”. iG.Syntax.Hilighter is the answer. It uses the GNU GPL and leverages GeSHi. Here is a copy [...]

OS X killer apps

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Recently I polled my friends and based on their feedback and my experience. I won’t highlight Apple software like iLife in the links below but rather software we use on a daily basis that doesn’t come with our Macs or from Apple. AdiumX AdiumX is what multi-protocol chat clients should aspire to be. It’s what [...]

MilkDrop

Friday, November 9th, 2007

I have been a fan of music visualization software since 1996 when I purchased a new computer with a Matrox Millennium video card and a beautiful 17 inch Trinitron display. A very simple form of turning sound into a visual format is an oscilloscope. An oscilloscope is used to create a visual representation of alternating [...]