Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog
Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.
Useful Tidbits and Egotistical Musings from Dan Wood
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My New Gadgets
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This Christmas and post-Christmas season, I got some cool gadgets. I love 'em.
First off, I got one of those USB keychain-size hard drives. I got it out of necessity — I was trying to transfer some files to a PC at an OfficeMax store. Now that I have it, I'm seeing all kinds of cool uses for it. At at a friend's house, he took some pictures of our kids. Within a few minutes, he had moved this pictures to iPhoto on his PowerBook, and then to my little hard drive, so now I have those pictures too. I've put some useful data (encrypted on a .dmg volume) on the thing so I have it with me. Mine is 512MB though now there are one-giggers around. And I didn't really pay attention the brand; I'm sure they are all roughly the same with different levels of aesthetics and price.
The next thing I got is the TV-B-Gone universal remote control TV-turner-offer. This is on my keychain too. It's really cool... whenever you find yourself in a restaurant or waiting room or airport with an annoying TV, chances are, this thing can turn it off. (But I wouldn't use it on a sports bar on SuperBowl Sunday, even though it would be tempting!)
Finally, I got the "Down Low Glow" from Fossil Fool installed on my bicycle for night-time rides. I finally got a chance to take it out between rainstorms, and it's really fun! It makes one's bike be more visible to automobiles, plus it gives me a bit of that "low rider" feeling that I have never had before, and probably never will again!