Archive for 2009

Contacts, calendars, and now Tasks

Now that I have my contacts and calendar syncing to the cloud, the next step is a Todo list.  And I’ve finally settled on a todo list solution that works for me, my mac, and my mobile life style:  Google Tasks plus Fluid (PC users can use Google Chrome).  Google tasks is lightweight, simple, and mobile accessible.  Fluid creates stand-alone desktop apps from web site applications.

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So if you’re an iPhone user, you want contact and calendar syncing over-the-air, you don’t want to pay for Mobileme, and you think Microsoft Exchange server sucks, then you’re just like me and there’s a great solution out there for you: Google Sync.  It supports syncing (manual, fetch or push) contacts list and up to 5 calendars via an ActiveSync protocol.  Mail is coming soon (but you can still use IMAP or POP, so I’m content to wait).  Google Sync is currently in beta, but google betas are fairly stable, and you should have started backing up your data years ago so as to never be totally caught off guard again, so I wouldn’t worry too much.  I’ve been using Google Sync for several weeks now and I’m loving it.

Let’s say you would like to post some XML in a blog post about, for example, XML in a Django template.  There’s a great plugin called WP-Syntax that adds syntax highlighting to code samples in your blog.  Once installed, you can use some code like this in your templates:

<xml>Hello</xml>

Then switch over to HTML mode and wrap that code in a pre tag like this:

<pre lang="xml" escaped="true">
    <xml>Hello</xml>
</pre>

But there’s a small catch
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RT flyout in FCP 6

So the most common way to see unrendered playback in FCP is to enable Unlimited RT in the RT flyout. But sometimes the RT flyout is missing settings like Playback Video Quality, Playback Frame Rate, and most importantly Unlimited RT. So where did it go? The answer is pretty simple.

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Code should be readable.

Recently, I had to make some changes to some XML that had been written in a Django template.  To avoid the xml being rendered by the browser as HTML, the code had been manually escaped, thus making the code rather unreadable.

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If you’re not familiar with SXSW, it’s a an arts festival with film, music, and interactive arts.  Every year they release a BitTorrent of mp3s several hundred of the attending musicians.  Well, every year I listen to every single mp3 and pick out my favorites.  It usually takes about 3 months.   Here are just 10 of my favorites:

• “Shooting Star” by Air Traffic
• “Julianna” by Audyre Sessions
• “All Our Memories” by Edison Glass

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If you’re not familiar with SXSW, it’s a an arts festival with film, music, and interactive arts.  Every year they release a BitTorrent of mp3s several hundred of the attending musicians.  Well, every year I listen to every single mp3 and pick out my favorites.  It usually takes about 3 months.   Here are just 10 of my favorites:

• “To Let Myself Go” by Ane Brun
• “Bet You Never Thought” by Brighton, MA (is that really the band name?)
• “Journal Of A Narcoleptic” by Dan Mangan

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If you’re not familiar with SXSW, it’s a an arts festival with film, music, and interactive arts.  Every year they release a BitTorrent of mp3s several hundred of the attending musicians.  Well, every year I listen to every single mp3 and pick out my favorites.  It usually takes about 3 months.   Here are just 10 of my favorites:

• “Released” by Glen Phillips
• “The Krinkle of Henry’s Heart” by Bexar Bexar
• “Drink To Moving On” by Grand National

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If you’re not familiar with SXSW, it’s a an arts festival with film, music, and interactive arts.  Every year they release a BitTorrent of mp3s several hundred of the attending musicians.  Well, every year I listen to every single mp3 and pick out my favorites.  It usually takes about 3 months.   Here are just 10 of my favorites:

• “New Light Of Tomorrow” by Husky Rescue
• “Not Going Anywhere” by Keren Ann
• “Old New York” by Luke Temple

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