Brad Froehle

Skype

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005 I run Skype on my computer now. Skype is an internet telephony application, allowing you to make encrypted voice calls over the internet. If you want to give me a call, just ring me: BradleyFroehle @ Skype. You can always get ahold of me in a more traditional way as [...]

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iSight & iChat

Saturday, May 14th, 2005

When I make video connections using my iSight in iChat, I get strange errors like:

No data has been received for the last 10 seconds.

I have no idea what this means. This problem only arose after I switched to Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). I get this in situations where I never had a [...]

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Court nixes FCC’s broadcast flag

Friday, May 6th, 2005

Rather than try to rehash something that I don’t know enough about to describe without making some errors, I’ll point you to a few places that discuss the high impact court ruling.

Essentially, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC had no rights in forcing manufacturers to include copy protection technology (specifically, the “broadcast [...]

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ML-1710 & Tiger

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

Has anybody gotten their Samsung ML-1710 printer to work with Tiger?

I’ve installed the drivers from Samsung’s website (for Mac OS X 10.3), but they do not seem to show up when I add the printer.

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Flickr Pro

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

I bought a Flickr Pro account a few days ago and went nuts uploading files, maxing out my 2GB limit for the month of April and using 10% of May’s allowance while uploading over 1700 pictures.

If you aren’t a friend or family, some 400 of those won’t be initially visible to you. If [...]

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Textile 2.0.8 & WordPress

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Since the server this is running on was upgraded to PHP 5, the old Textile 2 plugin no longer functioned.

I have updated this plugin to use version 2.0.8 of the TextilePHP class. Thanks to Adam Gessaman for the original plugin.

You can download textile2.0.8-smartypants.zip or textile2.0.8-smartypants.tar.gz.

Note: This was updated from Adam’s 2.0.3 plugin (not the [...]

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Tiger: First Impressions

Monday, April 25th, 2005

At first, I must admit that it doesn’t seem like there is a whole lot new. Spotlight is neat, but I already had much of that functionality with Quicksilver. Dashboard is a good idea, but I’m not sure I’ll work it into my daily routine quite yet.

Here’s a list of applications and neat [...]

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Amazon’s Shipping Estimates

Monday, February 14th, 2005

Why does Amazon tell you Super Saver Shipping will take forever, especially when it usually ships way before the time they tell you it will.

For example, yesterday I ordered:

Shipping estimate for these items: February 21, 2005- February 21, 2005
Delivery estimate: February 24, 2005- February 28, 2005 “Colgate Phos-Flur Anti-Cavity Fluoride Rinse, Cool [...]

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Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

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Taggregator

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

“Taggregator” ... for Flickr & del.icio.us — with a bit of help from 10×10

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