Recess

Butter and sour cream held together with a little bit of potato — the perfect recipe for mashed potatoes in my opinion. Ah, my stomach grumbles at just the very thought of having some later this evening. So anyway, we're on the move again (and in the process escaping the three-digit scorcher predicted for Las Vegas) this weekend for a nice drive out to California, Orange County to be precise. Until then, have a lovely and eventful weekend everyone!

posted at 7:55 AM |  |

 Synergized

It may be old news to most, but SynergyKM is by far the best GUI wrapper around the synergy command tool that "lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems without special hardware". I know there are other alternatives such as QuickSynergy and Abyssoft's Teleport, but in my own experience SynergyKM still offers the easiest setup requirements.

So here it is folks (see photo below), my current ideal work set-up: my MacBook Pro on the left, the Mac Mini in the center (being the host controller), and the PC (running XP) on the right all controlled by just one set of keyboard and mouse. And for those saying that SynergyKM doesn't work on a Mac-to-Mac running Leopard (10.5.2), here's proof that it does! My configuration included using an IP address instead of the host name (ie. MyMac.local) to connect to the main machine, and also turning off "Enable client checks" from the Server Options panel. For some reason, when that option was on, the connection just kept switching between the on and off states causing my MacBook Pro's cursor to just quiver in one spot!

PS. I think this rig's got me beat! Ulp!

posted at 8:15 AM |  |

 Ratapatooey!

I like watching the Food Network, with Iron Chef, Good Eats, Nigela Express, Tyler's Ultimate and Everyday Italian being some of my favourite shows. Infact, me and my wife like it so much that we fall asleep and wake up to it! But alas, after a cowerk of mine shared this link and this here link, things will never be the same again...


"Mommy." (Photo courtesy of TVgasm)

posted at 3:19 PM |  | 1 Comment

 Every Dog Has His Day

I was just browsing thru my old bookmark archive when I stumbled onto this. Ah yes, the good ol' Apple days... I missed it so much that it inspired me to redraw the entire thing in Illustrator and create an alternate icon for Safari, which in my humble opinion, should have been called Cyberdog just to keep the memories alive.



You can download a copy of the icon here (Leopard-ready of course).

posted at 6:41 AM |  | 2 Comments

 Hurdles

Usually, when I encounter a job attached to a client who is very uncompromising adamant particular about every single aspect of the design process, a little voice inside my head would tell me to slowly start backing away and then run for the hills. Alas, it seems that I either fail to listen to myself or I have awfully slow reaction times...

posted at 1:50 PM |  |

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