Random readings...

Since nobody responded, I decided to change the direction of this blog to the precise topic of everything. So the first post in the everything category is...

http://www.maclife.com/article/news/mythbusters_adam_savage_mac_geek

It proves that mythbusters and macs are equally awesome. You have no choice but to scream and dance in festive celebration.

I Need Topics

Hey everyone! So right now this blog is in a sad state. I have all kinds of neat stuff to share with the inter-webs, but the problem I'm facing is time. ...and consistency. So I thought I'd steer this blog away from being solely about my little gadgets and move more into general tech stuff. It seams no matter how much I desire otherwise, everyone sees me as the go to guy for tech problems/questions. It's not too bad. At least I'm useful for something! :D

So what do you want to read about? It can be anything at all, really. If you want it, I got it ...or I can at least get it. I'll give you some sparks to get you're thinking going:

Mac Hacks. Current computer trouble. I wish I could... . How do I... . Need a website/webpage? I wanna learn to... . My Windows machine won't... . My Mac machine won't... . Any convenience dreams. Nick, you should make... .

Hope those help you come up with something. I've got all kinds of ideas, but I don't want to waste my time blogging to myself. If just one of you wants to see something it'll be worth it. Leave your comments here.

Holidays in iCal via Subscription is a MUST

I've been finding lately that the key to a perfect life is a dream. And what's my dream? Well, right now it's having iCal show me when certain holidays are ... without me putting all of them in. So I set out on my quest to find the coveted plug-in/add-on/hack, and after a much rewarding and faithful google search I found it:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/calendars/usholidaycalendar.html

Subscriptions in iCal are amazing things. You might consider them one of those "hidden" or "little known" things on a Mac. This one puts all the standard U.S. holidays in a separate calendar. Apparently, it gets this info from mac.com

But what if you don't live in the U.S.? We Americans are so preoccupied with ourselves we don't realize there are civilized, happy people outside of the "protected" borders of America ... right? Well, not this time at least:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/holidays.html

This is to iCal files as our budget is to deficit. Now these are not subscriptions, but rather actual calendar files. This means they're static. That means they're saved into a calendar (on your harddrive) and never change unless you change them yourself. Besides the several countries supported (U.S. included), some other advantages to this are:

• You can edit the events
• You don't need an internet connection (of course the other option can be set to never refresh, thus not ever needing internet)
• And it's a little less cluttered if you combine it with an already-existing calendar

So, you should definitely check out these. Personally, I prefer the subscription because I don't ever have to mess with it again. But both options "complete" iCal a little bit and make it more like the lo-tech paper calendars we used to use.