Entries Tagged as ‘Utility’

April 3, 2009

iPhone Contact Synch Troubleshooting

I recently undertook a (failed) journey into synching my Gmail contacts with my Address Book. The end result was much annoyance, followed by a day (ok probably 20 minutes) of cleanup to get my list back to normal. FINE. The cleanup got done – I re-synched with my iPhone and viola: contacts restored to normal… [...]

July 14, 2008

Klingons need not apply

I ran Monolingual on my machine the other day – it basically clears off languages that you are never going to use to save space. If you’re like me you’re thinking: For a small amount of space… I might as well just keep Spanish around. The thing is… we’re not talking about a small amount [...]

June 14, 2008

Flood 1.0

Too bad that it’s come to this but having this mashup available is *really* nice.   Now if only I could have my 45 min drive to Milwaukee tomorrow instead of a map that shows me how to get there in 2 hours…

March 12, 2008

Shell games

Rob Sanheim’s productivity talk got me thinking about a shortcut that I’ve been meaning to create but never seem to get around to. For quite a while I’ve had a line like this in my login script: alias svnupall=”svn up /code/project1; svn up /code/project2; svn up /code/project3″ Normally it’s not that much of a pain [...]