Archive for March, 2006

Using Perl to change file names

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

I run into the situation of having to rename so often that I am constantly tweaking my solution. Here I had to remove some extraneous characters on file names that a client had added. All we wanted where the first characters that started with DSFC and then the 4 digits. I had to drop off […]

Macintosh Philosophy

Friday, March 24th, 2006

I posted a new theme today. I don’t know how long it will stick around. I was playing around with the words sophistication, philosophy and Macintosh. So I named my new theme sophia - greek for wisdom. This site reflects the wisdom of Mac.

Trusty Applications

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

I have several handy applications that I use on my mac daily. Obviously a mail app and browser. Safari is very nice. I’m using Apple Mail, but Thunderbird is really a nice mail app, too. But for me, much of the business of computing is storing information, and being able to get to that information […]