< 1 minute I can report unequivocally the success of the GFXString hack for com.apple.Boot.plist! I followed an excellent tutorial I found on the Interwebs (can link if so requested), that outlined how to extract the Hex string for my GFX card. I did follow the instructions, plug it in my plist and repaired permissions, and voila, after … →

2 minutes A languorous Sunday is fodder for the developer within. Today I decided to give the much touted (and often brick-batted) Dashcode Widget development app a whirl. Dashcode can be downloaded as a part of the Xcode developers toolset from the ADC member website. The whole package is around 1.1 GB. Dashcode offers a very simple … →

2 minutes I have been trying of late to replace Firefox and/or Mail.app as my feed aggregators, with little luck. So desperate was I, that I pretty much resolved to program one myself. But before I could start, I decided to give it one more shot & search the interwebs a bit more. My luck indeed – … →

< 1 minute Simply Delish! Rissa and I decided to try out a Turkish dish this evening – Durum, to perhaps try and emulate the Durum we usually get in Aachen at the Berliner Grill. The endeavor was an unequivocal success! We didn’t manage to quite ape the Aachener taste, but instead we improved upon it, the way … →

2 minutes This morning I decided to give OS X another whirl. Yes the capricious old Timothy is back – and woe betide thee, if you didn’t see this coming. so I won’t even grace this entry with my plethora of reasons, so let’s just move on. I decided against installing Adium X and try Messenger Live … →

3 minutes So Saturday, Rissa’s day off from studies of the medical kind took us to Aachen. It was a glorious day indeed, in spite of the weather that decided to play spoilsport. But hey nothing dampens our spirits, if we could make BRU fun, Aachen is gold! Directly from the HBF we descended to the Apple … →

2 minutes A post my Rissa surmises was coming, and indeed she’s right, as always. I am back on Vista, having converted my Hack.in.t0sh back to a Vista machine. The reasons I will revisit once again, and are nothing new. I grew tired after a while of the slow response my behemoth of a machine gets from … →