After creating my VirtualBox applications and slapping them on the Dock, I decided that I didn’t like the default VirtualBox icon for those apps. The problem was exacerbated when I put them next to each other, making them indistinguishable at a quick glance. I figured out how to change the icons for those virtual machines, [...]

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Mac OS X: If you want to launch a VirtualBox machine directly as an application, you’ll need to know some basic AppleScript. Open Script Editor and enter the following: do shell script “vboxmanage startvm Ubuntu” Substitute Ubuntu for the name of your virtual machine. If you’ve got a machine with a space in the name, [...]

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So far on day 2 of the Plone Conference, I’ve sat in on sessions regarding what makes a great development team, how to become an individual Plone consultant, and the future of Plone’s user experience. All these were pretty good talks in and of themselves, but I’ve yet to find the magical session that helps [...]

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If you’ve noticed that I don’t seem to be around much this week, it’s because I’m not. I’m attending this year’s Plone Conference in Washington DC and will be here all week. The first two days (Monday-Tuesday) were pre-conference training, and the other three (Wednesday-Friday) are actual sessions and talks. The first two days weren’t [...]

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This Little Song Went to Market… I recently caved in to the desire to purchase songs from iTunes. I fired up the bloatware application and entered the Store, seeking out some new tunes I’d recently heard on Sirius. My wife spotted my activity and asked if the songs I purchased would work with her computer. [...]

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The Nikkei – Japan’s version of the Wall Street Journal – is reporting that the next iteration of the Nintendo DS will have both a camera and music playback capability. Along with those two new features, it’s also reportedly getting a boost in wireless capability. Word is the camera will be used like the PSEye [...]

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Losing your laptop is an ugly event. I’d like to show you a simple way to improve your chances of getting your beloved laptop back. The idea is simple – create a wallpaper image that shows up when your computer is at the login screen. All I did was grab a pre-packaged image from the [...]

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I stumbled across a forum thread at geeks.pirillo.com where a user posed the title question: should programmers use older hardware? The rationale behind the question was that the developer would have a better feel for how the code runs on slower machines. If it runs well on slow machines, it should run even better on [...]

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It’s been about two years since a couple college friends and I were anticipating the release of Spore. Delay after delay knocked the release date back to yesterday, when it finally went on sale in stores. What happened in the last two years? I don’t know, but all I know now is that I don’t [...]

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Say hello to the Blue Track mouse from Microsoft. Courtesy of their hardware page, Microsoft is set to release a new mousing device on September 9th. Someone spotted the above image on Amazon.de, which has since been removed. Blue Track uses a blue LED and a wide-angle lens that’s supposed to work on more surfaces [...]

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