Good writing will chill you to the bone

March 14, 2009

Peter Stark’s article for Outside Magazine, The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death, not only pushes this post to the maximum allowed number of puns in a post it is awfully good writing.  I’m going to give you the opportunity to encounter the story in the way that I did, with a paucity of [...]

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First all African American Female Crew of a Commercial Airliner

March 13, 2009

I’m told that these are pictures of the first all female all black flight crew.  They operated flight 5202 from Atlanta to Nashville and flight 5106 from Nashville back to Atlanta for Atlantic Southeast Airlines on Thursday, Ferbraury 12, 2009. The crew included CPT Rachelle Jones, FO Stephanie Grant, FA’s Robin Rogers and Diana Galloway.  [...]

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Setting Quicktime movie playback speed

November 30, 2008

TransformMovie rotates and resizes quicktime movies and performs one other trick that I’ve been looking for forever. It speeds up or slows down a Quicktime movie. With TransformMovie your visitors won’t have to sit through a tutorial that renders at the same speed that it was recorded.

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Detecting and Removing Spector from your MAC

November 29, 2008

Spector is a keylogger for the MAC. If you find the spyware on your computer then someone with access to it has trust issues. Spector is supposed to be invisible to the user but it is a resource hog. In addition to spying on your activities it will begin to slow your computer. You may notice this during startup.

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