Marshall’s Weblog

When I use top, I generally use it to find runaway processes. The default behavior on Linux is to order the processes by the amount of CPU usage that they are taking. On OS X, this is not the case. If you want to order processes by CPU on Darwin’s top, you will need to [...]

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Apple Inc. + Google + Yahoo + Cingular = iPhone!

I know I will be buying one in June when they come out.

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A while back I had an idea for a web app whereby users would upload files to a server and the app would spit out a download key. Third party’s could then download the files only if they had the proper key. Today, I came across Civil Netizen, a free service which allows you to [...]

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Tonight I set out to sync my iTunes library up with MythTV. I have been wanting to create some playlists on the Myth box, but I find the playlist “editor” (if you can even call it that) for MythMusic just a bit kluggy. I found the script that is embedded in this post which will [...]

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I spent a good 30 minutes looking for a free version of the game Bejeweled for the Mac which I had before my hard drive crashed. I finally found it on the FreeMacware site and it is called JewelToy.

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I was really dissapointed when I tried out the new version of Vienna today. My first thoughts were YAFR. (Thats “Yet Another Feed Reader” for those who are not hip to the new acronyn I just created). I decided to toy around a bit and found the new “Unified” layout. This is the EXACT feature [...]

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If you have a Mac and don’t subscribe to .Mac, yet still would like some easy online storage, check out Box.Net. Along with these directions on how to connect to it on a Mac, you will have 1 GB of free online storage, perfect for backing up those important files.

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