Archive for July, 2009

My Favorite Sesame Street Videos

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

My daughter is one year old and we don’t let her watch children’s programming on TV yet. She doesn’t even know it exists. We do however have an unused computer that she knows is her computer for watching Sesame Street videos on YouTube.

The Sesame Street channel has a great selection of videos from [...]

MacPorts tips

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

I use MacPorts as a package manager for Mac OS X and used it mindlessly for a long time before learning some basic commands that helped out.

First, to update your MacPorts version to the newest release you can do:

% sudo port selfupdate

That’s really basic and well-documented. To upgrade all your installed packages do:

% sudo [...]

From SmugMug to Flickr

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

I recently migrated all my photos from SmugMug to Flickr. A long time ago I wrote a blog post discussing why I originally chose SmugMug. I was so dedicated to SmugMug that I wrote an iPhoto plugin to upload photos from iPhoto to SmugMug. I still like SmugMug because the guys who [...]