Steven’s Notebook

It’s that time once again, and I’m heading off with my other son this time ’round. Three years ago my older son and I spent a week as part of a 20-person crew sailing the Florida Keys. This year I’m taking my younger son and his friends.

We won’t be aboard the Gypsy this time; […]

I’ve been asked by a few folks where the name for my new PowerBook came from.
World, meet my new PowerBook, named TullyMars.
First of all, for all the Windows users in the audience, it’s been a long tradition for Mac people to name their computers. Windows systems do have names, but PC users normally only notice […]

If Google Mars wasn’t enough for you, NASA has made available new view of the biggest canyon in the solar system, merging hundreds of photos from NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter. Mariner Valley is 10 times longer, 5 times deeper, and 20 times wider than Earth’s Grand Canyon.
Here’s a link to their flythough movie (QuickTime). [found […]

Like Mike McBride, I really like Microsoft OneNote. I’ve been a long-time OneNote user (since it’s first public beta) and have been part of the non-public beta for the upcoming version. Back in November I even told Chris Pratley that it was the one application keeping me from making the switch to OS X.
Obviously, I’m […]

Way back when, in the dim dark recesses of time - the 1980’s - the first computers I used were of the Apple variety, Apple ][, ][+ and //e to be exact. My father tells of a time even before that where I would mess around on the TRS-80s at the mall Radio Shack, but […]

I added two more sports to my photography repertoire this weekend at Wills Park

Baseball’s a sport I know, though I’m working on finding the “sweet spots” from which to photograph the action. I’m pretty much clueless about Equestrian sports though - I just know to stay out of the way of the horses

The wacky folks at Google have brought out another fun web application, GoogleMars. Fun, and possibly useful for students who may be studying Mars and the various explorations that have been done so far.
Then again, I wonder if today’s science classes even mention Mars?

Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite
Robert A. Heinlein
Apparently that doesn’t apply if you’re a student in 21st Century United States.
There’s been quite a flap this past week about kids and their use of the web. To me, there are three different topics getting mixed up together. Writing that can […]

January 12: “Will we be able to run Windows on an Intel Mac?”
Today’s news: Apple Senior Software Architect Cameron Esfahani when asked whether Intel Macs should easily run Vista, replied “I don’t think so.”
Windows is a legacy OS. We don’t have legacy support.
Note the use of the word “easily.”
[later] never underestimate the power of the […]

Here’s a follow-on to yesterday’s OS X Terminal tip. Folks coming to OS X from the Unix/Linux world may be wondering about Terminal - why aren’t we just using Xterm? Xterm does exist on OS X systems but it requires X11 to run, while Terminal is a native application providing very similar capability. The differences […]

I’ve passed along a few Mac tips before…

Common Navigation Keystrokes in OS X, Windows
Formatting Big FAT32 Volumes
OS X Hints for Windows users

… and here’s one for Terminal. If you’re a vi or Emacs user and want to be able to use the mouse to move your cursor, visit Terminal’s Preferences and change to Emulation. There […]