Here’s how you load PDFs onto your iPad…
I’ve had several questions about this – there’s a nice page under “Apps” that lets you directly manage the documents loaded into individual applications on the iPad.
Tagged iPad, iphone, iphonehacksgeneral
secular apocalypse
I’ve been thinking recently (anthropologically) about human concerns about the future. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about the global warming / climate change topic.
For those who have studied comparative religion, there’s a term ‘apocalyptic’, which means, religions or denominations which focus on a postulated or predicted ‘end of days’. In early Christianity, for instance, there were [...]
quotemark FAIL
Quote marks are still under assault by overenthusiastic punctuators. While they are often used incorrectly as emphasis, sometimes they mean absolutely nothing in context.
Tagged education, illiteracy, quotemarksHow to lose weight by spending less
I recently went on a diet and lost 20 pounds in about 5 weeks (4I /22 to 5/29). I didn’t do a fad diet; I simply ate less. It turns out that it’s incredibly easy – and cheap – to lose weight. The trick is to eat a lot less than your currently eating, and [...]
Booting off SSD (Solid State Drive)
Ok so now I’ve done a new thing with my two-drive Mac Book Pro. In my earlier post I installed a terabyte raid in my Mac Book, by removing the optical drive. I wanted to really accelerate boot time and application, but I also wanted to have lots of storage (the other 500GB) to store [...]
Star Trek Movie – best movie of the summer, and I haven’t seen the others yet.
Ok maybe Harry Potter will match it. But OMG that was a good movie.
here’s the deal – I am not a trekkie. I am a star wars fan, but I have only seen some of the star trek movies (the 80’s ones); I watched some Next Gen but not the later two series. So I [...]
iPhone Keyboard – no Jailbreaking required, using 2.0 SDK
A number of industrious individuals have achieved what to some is the holy grail of iPhone accessories: an iPhone keyboard. But most have done it in a very hard-to-repeat manner, and few have shared the methods they used.
Expanding on their audio port modem , PerceptDev engineers Zack Gainsforth and George Dean developed a hardware and [...]
Happy Darwin Day – procreate!!
Is disbelief in evolution a survival trait?
In conversation with dozens of Darwin advocates, I have noticed a strange correlation: People who have a strong affinity for Darwinism – such that they bring it up in conversations and discuss the folly of religionists who challenge it – also tend to have strong views about overpopulation and [...]
