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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Snow Leopard first impressions

I just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Since my SuperDrive is dead, I was going to install from a second Mac booted into FireWire drive sharing mode. The install disk refuses to run in this mode. I used OS X disk sharing, but had to first run a couple commands: defaults write [...]

Customizing Mac OS X PDF Services

One useful feature of OS X is the built in PDF handling. It is always easy to export a file as a PDF, and to do some basic editing of PDF files. A post on Mac OS X Hints today got me looking at some customizations. The hint is that creating an alias in the [...]

Swallow Falls

I was able to spend a little time at Swallow Falls State Park and Potomac-Garrett State Forest in western Maryland last week. There are three waterfalls in the park: Muddy Creek Falls, and Upper and Lower Swallow Falls. At 53 feet tall, Muddy Creek Falls is the highest in Maryland. Parts of the Upper and [...]

A better stoplight

I was able to spend some time in Sweden and Denmark a while ago. Other than the fun of traveling, the trip was to look at the differences between Scandinavian countries and the United States. One of the first differences I noticed is that they use four phase traffic lights instead of the three phase [...]