Saturday, February 9, 2008
Swept the backyard, dropped last night's Netflix in the mail. Breakfast at home with Patrick: 10-grain pancakes, Smart Balance Light, maple syrup, Greenwell Farms kona coffee from Chris and Nate. I discovered a great new trick in OS X today: In the Finder, select a bunch of photos, then to view them as a slideshow press Command+Option+Y. This slideshow runs in the Finder's Quick Look feature rather than in a separate application. If you have the Quick Look button in your Finder toolbar you can also hold the Option key while you click the Quick Look button. The icon on the Quick Look button momentarily changes to Play when the Option key is held—this is what drew me into learning about this feature. Speed is the huge benefit of this slideshow feature. Quick Look is part of the Finder, and the Finder is always running, so it's instantly available all the time. If you launched Preview or iPhoto to use Preview's slideshow feature, then you have to wait a second or more for Preview or iPhoto to load before your slideshow begins. Installed Firefox 2.0.0.12 and Perian 1.1 on the iMac. Optimized the iMac—2 GB of RAM is almost not enough to do the things we need. Decided that I'm not going to archive some documents I might have archived before—I just don't have the time. Lunch at Burgermeister Cole Valley with Patrick. On the way we saw Joel waiting for the N-Judah and said hello. Cole Valley Hardware. The overall progress indicator in Flickr Uploadr for OS X is not well designed. When I'm uploading just one photo, right after I begin the upload, the overall progress indicator says it is 50% complete. It sits at 50% complete while the per-image progress indicator underneath it progresses steadily to 100%, when, I believe, it fills to 100% instantly and then the dialog disappears. That's a poor design, if you ask me. There's a new version of Uploadr (3.0.5, I think), but it has been causing me problems (Houston) so I haven't been using it. Edited photos, uploaded photos to Flickr. Dinner at home with Patrick: lemon chicken, basmati rice, steamed asparagus. Finished reading Vernor Vinge's The Peace War, which sneeper let me borrow—thanks, sneep! Found Vinge's "The Ungoverned" online, bookmarked it. Stretches.