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I’ve switched to an iWeb blog. I’m not really sure why, but iWeb is cool anyway. My new blog is at web.mac.com/eamonford. I’ll still keep this one as an archive though.

I bought a wireless Mighty Mouse! It works great. Here are some pictures.

I found a cool freeware app called Seismac, which turns your PowerBook/iBook/MacBook into a seismograph, using the laptop’s Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS).

Joseph also showed me another SMS based app called MacSaber, which, as you probably guessed, turns your Mac into a lightsaber.

I made this planet in Photoshop using a really cool tutorial. You can download a desktop-sized version here:
Desktop (1280×854)

I’ve been trying to install SuSE Linux on the iMac G3, but I’ve run into a few problems…

I successfully installed the system, but when I boot up or change the monitor settings, the screen starts flashing rapidly and scrolls to the right. Then after a period of time (up to several hours), it goes normal, except that the desktop is about two inches off to the left.

Hopefully this is just because of an outdated video card driver, and can be fixed when I download and install the 79(!) software updates that are available.

I redesigned the About page on The Byte Factory’s website. The cards are now stacked, instead of laying on a conveyer belt, and you can drag them around the page.

Using script.aculo.us’s Javascript library, all I had to do was add one line of Javascript to make a card drag-and-droppable. And best of all, it works in all browsers.

I was uploading some pictures from France to my Flickr account today, but not paying attention to the 20MB per month upload limit. So, I was just uploading the pictures in their original size, which was about 2000×1500. Bad idea. After uploading 10 pictures, my bandwidth usage was up to 55%.

I immediately stopped the uploading and sized down the rest of the images, but you just can’t upload 90 pictures with only 11MB of bandwidth left.

I guess I’ll have to wait till July to upload any more images.

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I’ve been trying to think of a good idea for an app to work on for The Byte Factory. I’ve seen several cool apps recently, but I can’t think of anything myself.
Any ideas?

I was typing out a graphics-based Java program today from a book (I’m still learning the language). But when I compiled and ran the program, all was not well. So after about 10 minutes of examining the code and populating the methods with System.out.println() statements, I discovered that paintComponent() wasn’t getting called. Why? Because there was a typo in the method signature. I know this was my fault, but if Java required all methods to have a declaration, the compiler would have issued an error message and this wouldn’t have happened.