DeltaWalker 1.8.6, released this week, adds support for comparing Microsoft Office and PDF files. And it works fast. I’m totally satisfied with how Deltopia implemented this. I use DeltaWalker primarily in OS X and a little in Windows. DeltaWalker has helped me ween myself from Windows and do more work in my preferred environment, OS [...]
Archive for January, 2009
DeltaWalker Adds Word/Excel/PowerPoint/PDF file comparison support!
Posted in Macintosh/OS X, Reviews on 31 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Speaker Pop
Posted in Macintosh/OS X on 29 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was working happily, listening to Melanie’s Estate Sale at a low volume from my MacBook Pro’s speakers when the sound went out with a sharp but not loud “pop.” Whoah. This sucks. Now I can’t get sound out of my speakers. Gonna have to bring this back to Apple. What a waste of time. [...]
G-Drive Arrive
Posted in Macintosh/OS X on 27 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My G-Drive 500GB Mini Triple arrived via UPS a few minutes ago. Yeah! It came with three cables: 4-pin USB, FireWire 400 and, as a lovely surprise, FireWire 800! I’m transferring the data from my read-only-mounted Passport 250GB to it right now. I’m excited. The big surprise was that this little drive came with a [...]
Western Digital Passport 250GB, second failure
Posted in Uncategorized on 26 January 2009 | 1 Comment »
Returned from our trip today. Equipment was unplugged and off while we were gone. First attempt to write to Passport 250GB, using iTunes, gave a message that nothing could be written to the drive. Unmounted fine. Mount gave me a warning that it was going to be mounted read-only so I could get my data [...]
Skiing Wolf Laurel
Posted in Uncategorized on 26 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll update this post with details at some point. Today is our first day back home.
iPod touch 2nd Gen anti-glare film review
Posted in Macintosh/OS X on 16 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I got the Power Support brand anti-glare Film set (front and back) for iPod touch 1st Generation as a Christmas gift from OHA. It was for the wrong generation iPod touch but the front fit great and the back fit okay. This is a matte finish screen protector. I love it. It’s easy to read [...]
SVN server switch
Posted in Uncategorized on 13 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I switch my Xampp-based SVN server from my Dimension desktop to my new Asus desktop tonight. Couldn’t get Apache to start until I uninstalled IE 7. MWAPI.DLL dependency, I believe was the culprit.
Helibars finally installed on F4i
Posted in Motorcycling on 12 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I finally installed my Helibars today. JZ did most of the work. It took the better part of the day. They don’t look better than the stock bars, that’s for sure. But hopefully they’ll be more comfortable for me given my long torso.
Fenix Flashlights
Posted in Uncategorized on 8 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve misplaced my xenon Surefire 6P and G2 Nitrolon high-powered small flashlights. At this point, I don’t know when they’re going to show up again, though I’m confident they will. I need replacements. And I want a strong purse torch for my wife. And I want to switch to LED-based torches. So I checked out [...]
