Last week my latest work erwinmcmanus.com was launched. The site runs on WordPress, however it is not set up as a blog. I really wanted to run the site on WordPress to make use of the comment system, rss feeds, templates, pings and trackbacks. I also wanted to push WordPress as a CMS system to [...]
I didn’t realize how much I miss browsing through my cd collection until I downloaded this cool little app called CoverFlow. It’s weird, it really feels like I’m at a thrift store browsing through albums. The app is very quick and responsive even with my 8,000 song collection of music. My only complain though is [...]
From my personal arsenal of tools, check out Myang’s Photo Textures. She’s got over 2700 free images of textures, buildings, fabric and objects all organized by category. It’s not stock photography but I think that’s what makes it so unique. The photos seem to be taken with a digital camera and are all high resolution [...]
The correct title should have been “I got a new Computer”, but since this 12″ Powerbook is so small and so light, I really feel like I have a new toy. After a few weeks of MISERABLY SLOW COMPUTING due to having only half my real RAM, Mosaic was kind enough to hook me up [...]
I am so saddened, I just found out that while I was attending my grandparent’s funerals last month in Puerto Rico, Ibrahim Ferrer from Buena Vista Social Club died in a Havana Hospital at age 78. According to BBC News, he has joined the fate of Compay Segundo and Rubén Gonzalez who also died in [...]
It’s official. I am one of the many affected by the Lower Memory Slot Failure on Powerbooks. My wife’s iBook feels faster than my Powerbook. How sad. I’m on the phone talking to an Apple representative right now. The Tech support lady said they are not aware of this being an issue and asked where [...]
John Grubber’s Daring Fireball has published a hilarious short story of the sad fate of the Metal Interface that used to permeate Mac OS X. Truly this is comedy for the Mac Geek. Warning, strong language.
After many frustrating days of no internet connection at home I’m finally switching carriers. I currently had SBC Yahoo DSL. It was fast and cheap. Well, except for the speed part. It turns out my house is very far away from the nearest hub and with DSL, the farther you are from a tower the [...]
Apple just announced the iPod nano and the iTunes Mobile Phone (carried by Cingular) in an Apple Media Event in San Francisco. The phone does not look anything special and I think Motorola is missing the point by releasing such an ordinary device and not capitalizing on the whole iPod style phenomenon. But, the nice [...]
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