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BradArsenault — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:54:52 +0000

Gotta Love Highschool

BradArsenault — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:03:07 +0000

Everyday I’m reminded of how much I love this pointing my life, and this blueberry something-or-other topped with real whipped cream just topped off my day.

Avatar

BradArsenault — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:37:18 +0000

If you’ve been following me on Twitter then you know that I went to see Avatar in RealD3D at Empire Theatres in New Minas (at 12:30p if you’re so inclined.)

MacHeist Coming

BradArsenault — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:24:40 +0000

Today I got this in an email and followed the link and filled in the coordinates on the site and got a free software license as well as finding out that something is coming in 4 days. Keep an eye out.

Snackr: RSS Ticker

BradArsenault — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:21:11 +0000

As I’m sure I’ve mentioned, I’ve gotten my office back-and so have space to have additional monitors (currently, however I only have one setup) and have been aching to find a great way to utilize it the way I’m used to utilizing my TV… for news updates. So I’ve searched for a way to display RSS feed items in a way that gets through them-and better yet, looks good too. Snackr is a great Adobe Air app which accomplishes everything I’ve wanted and more–it looks better than I hoped (especially for a Windows app, of course all Adobe Air apps work on Mac, Windows, and Linux). It can import an OPML file to get your feeds-an OPML file is essentially an XML file which contains a list of RSS feed adresses-and is exported from another RSS reader (I always use Google Reader for my reading-so I used the Reader export function to do this, rather than re-typing them into Snackr.) So far, the biggest missing feature is full-screen ticking… so I can put it in a “screen saver” like mode where it just takes the whole screen and devotes it to my feed items. Give it a try-Mac, Windows, and Linux–you only need the Adobe Air framework installed.

From Snackr.net you can download it, Adobe Air-and I encourage you to recommend this to fellow geeks.

Elton John Concert Photos [UPDATE] and Videos

BradArsenault — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:17:42 +0000

Here are some photos from the Elton John concert, yesterday.

Elton John Pictures

[UPDATE]

And here is a collection of the videos.

TWiT Caravan Status

BradArsenault — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:49:42 +0000

As of now I’ve put together the collection of GPS location points tweeted by Colleen and Tony and got this map. Currently the TWiT Caravan is just about at vegas. They haven’t updated since 11 PM San Francisco time, so I can assume that they haven’t continued their journey, or that they broke down during the night and the Tricaster is now being devoured by buzzards…

And just to point out that it could have been worse… if you were walking it would take 12 days 22 hours walking, with all of that gear, driving a van isn’t so bad.

1Password on iPhone

BradArsenault — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:10:39 +0000

This week the creator of the infamous password-management utility for the mac, Agile Web Solutions has debuted their iPhone-based password tool allows users to login to a database of password stored on the iPhone or iPod Touch and read, write, check passwords. If you have the desktop version of this program (which every mac user should, it AMAZING!) you can sync your already stored passwords onto your iPod Touch or iPhone via wifi. Oh, and the best part is that the iPhone version is free! I have posted screen shots of the interface here…

This is the splash screen you see while the app loads. It’s a fairly fast app to load in my experience with about 400 items in my password-database.

When this app loads you’re presented with a 4-digit passcode. It will be four digits, and is used to log in, but for items you mark as sensitive you’re presented with a password. (Of course you set this up when you first download the app.)

Your passcode is protected while you type it, again it will only display this for a second, once you hit the 4th digit it will automatically authenticate.

This is your password database, you will notice my various (and fake) entries.

This is when you go to enter a new or edit an existing entry, this strongly resembles Apple’s address book interface.

This is the next tab over, “Notes”. You can keep secure notes here (these are synchronized from your desktop, but I have yet to need this feature).

This is when you “tap” to create a new note. From here you select the data you’d like to enter (the note name, the note) and you can switch “Master Password Protection” on which means that past the authentication (four-digit code) you will need to enter another password (can be really long).

The third tab from the left is the sync, this will search your wifi network to see if there are any 1Password desktop-clients running on any macs. (Note that you actually need to open and authenticate yourself on the desktop version before attempting to sync everytime, the first time there is a pairing code you must enter from iPhone/iPod Touch to Desktop.)

This is when it finds a 1Password on the network, it displays an icon and the computer names (presumably you could sync multiple machines to an iPod Touch/iPhone).

This shows the stats about the computer you’re synced to. As well as the when the last sync for.

This is what the screen looks like once the sync is complete. Mine synced in less than 10 seconds.