December 2008
4 posts
xkcd Fan Fiction
Wow. Just… wow. As if it was written by Randall Munroe himself.
How do you take stick figures in a comic strip and turn them into literature? God bless the Internet for making anything possible.
Micromanaging OS X
From http://secrets.blacktree.com/, a big database of hidden preferences.
Following switches show full path in Finder, status bar in Safari, genre in iTune browser, and iTunes arrows link to library instead of iTMS:
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle 1 defaults write com.apple.Safari ShowStatusBar 1 defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-genre-when-browsing 1 defaults write...
xbox 360: save game to hard drive
It took me a while to try this, but it’s worth it. Sometimes faster, always less noisy.
Go to the game’s “page” and select Install Game from the menu.
This has to be decreasing the 360’s power consumption as well.
http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2008/10/saving-games-to.html
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_jump.cfm/479480/4383911