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Tuesday, December 23. 2008

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Thursday, November 20. 2008

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Tuesday, October 14. 2008

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I hated myspace and you know what? I’m sick of facebook too. I dunno, maybe I’m just a cranky IT guy but I find it to be distracting and a huge time sink with no value to me. I have my own websites, plural… tell me why I need facebook again? Oh yes, “social networking”, online poker, pokes, and all of those “friends” who don’t even know my phone number. I’ll pass.

So with several new notifications of “people I may know” waiting for me I deactivated my account today.

Friday, August 1. 2008

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50 Best Websites of 2008

From TIME: The 50 Best Websites of 2008

Wednesday, July 23. 2008

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Social Networks

Saturday, February 2. 2008

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Auto lock your Mac when you walk away

We geeks all have some sort of bluetooth device on us like your Blackberry or your new iPhone (which I just got and LOVE) so why not take advantage of one of these as a beacon to your computer. With a small application you can set your computer to detect the proximity of your device and perform actions based on when it comes in or goes out of range.

I’m using the free utility Proximity to do the detection. You could even unlock the computer when you come back in range, but I just want it to lock when I walk away since I always forget. With a small AppleScript that’s easy:

tell application "ScreenSaverEngine" to activate

That’s all there is to it and it works great.

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