View from the Dock

1. Dvorak-Qwerty redux
I decided to test out Tweetdeck, a new Twitter application in Beta developed on the Adobe Air platform. I like it. But when I attempted to hide the app with the shortcut ?-H … it didn’t work. Then it hit me. It’s an Adobe app. Of course it doesn’t work. That’s because I [...]

I’ve been thinking lately about news readers. I use NetNewsWire on my Mac and my iPhone. It’s a good reader, and I’ve grown to depend on the automated syncing of my feeds between my desktop and phone. I, like many people, only sync ‘must read’ items to my iPhone. My Mac client is where I [...]

We get our furniture and other household goods from Hawaii this Friday. All of our stuff will finally join us here in Maryland…and I will soon once again be able to sit at a proper desk in a proper chair to update this site.
Now that we have a new mailing address, I decided to [...]

Shortly before I moved from Hawaii to Maryland, a friend of mine graciously gave me his 16 GB iPhone (Edge) after he bought a new 3G model.
It had a cracked screen, but I didn’t mind. The shattered glass was mostly confined to one corner, so it wasn’t too distracting. He didn’t ask for any direct [...]

Well, I’m happy to say the move is over. Before I recap some of my technology-oriented ‘lessons learned’ during this period of transition, I’d like to respond to some of the comments received over the past couple of months while I was not monitoring this site:
1. Reader Lek asked how to convert (or move) a [...]

I’m on the road this week in Washington, DC. Away from my desktop Mac, I’ve been thinking about data synchronization and the cost we should expect to pay for it.
It seems that everyone is coming out with syncing solutions, and most of these solutions include web-based access to data. And soon, we can expect [...]