K’s Weblog

It seems like forever since I’ve been behind the mic recording my very own segment for the podcast.  But sure enough, here I am.
fseventer
First off this week is a tool from FernLightning called fseventer.  This app gives you new visibility into just what files on your hard drive are modified by the tools you use [...]

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After a somewhat brief Aikido class tonight I was enlisted by Crow to help rid a Vista machine of the Vundo trojan which found it’s way onto the machine (prior to Avast being installed).
Avast did a great job of finding most things and cleaning them up.  What it had trouble with was a few DLLs [...]

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I’ve been contemplating an update to the look of the blog for several months now.  I know it’s only had the current incarnation since the summer, but I’ve always liked things to feel new and fresh.
The trouble had been finding the right WP theme.  Many of the ones I like visually didn’t have enough support [...]

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Well after a far more successful 2007 than I could have imagined, I’ve released the first significant feature update to the Admin Links Widget.
First, THANK YOU to everyone who has downloaded the widget.  It has been downloaded an astonishing 2300 times since the inaugural release on August 14th of last year.
The most significant changes for [...]

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Here’s a real-life example of how scope creep can absolutely kill a project you’re working on. I tend to find that this particular phenomenon tends to take hold of my projects on a regular basis, and I’ve been actively trying to combat it for quite a while now.
The project in question was a very [...]

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I’ve always been a bit of a stats monkey when it comes to… well pretty much everything.  I like to know how many there are, how long it takes, how much it costs.  I want the numbers.  But more than that, I want accurate numbers and often times in the past trying to get accurate [...]

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The folks over at MacUpdate are doing it again.  They’ve bundled together a ton of apps and are selling them off for one low packaged price.  The deal is set to expire this Tuesday, December 12th at about 20:00 PST.
The software included in the bundle is:

ForkLift
RapidWeaver
Swift Publisher
Marine Aquarium
Xslimmer
Memory Miner
Yep
XMind 2008 Pro
iStabilize
PulpMotion (still locked)

Full retail cost [...]

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UsingMac.com has posted a great tutorial for tweaking several new OS X settings from the terminal.   These mostly make use of the defaults command which allows you to adjust any of the XML config files that make up OS X.

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I’ve been running a Linux machine at the house for some time now, experimenting with trying to use it for a central file server where I can get at things like music and pictures from any of the computers in the house, and in some cases from over the Internet.
I’ve tried using various incarnations of [...]

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Warning: This post is going to get a bit technical…
This afternoon, I was checking out my Google Analytics statistics and realized that I was still getting quite a bit of traffic to the old blog at krell.cellsandbytes.net. I was wishing that these people would be kind enough to click on my new links on [...]

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