Christopher Craig

Links for the Week Ending September 07, 2008

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Fire Maker

Sep.02, 2008 in Photography Leave a Comment

Over the Labour Day weekend, some friends and I got together and we were playing around with light painting and long exposures. Here’s one of the shots we got. I was holding a sparkler in my hand and we used a 10 second exposure time.

Links for the Week Ending August 31, 2008

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Get Push Email with Apple Mail & Gmail

Aug.27, 2008 in Mac 1 Comment

Apple Hearts Gmail

Apple Hearts Gmail


I came across this tidbit of information at macosxhints.com that shows you how you can get push email functionality from Apple’s Mail client using Gmail.

the only things you need to do are:

1. Go into Mail » Preferences » Accounts (Advanced) and make sure that Use IDLE command if the server supports it is enabled (it’s enabled by default).
2. (This is the fun part) Again go into Mail » Preferences » General and set Check for new Mail to Manually.

Now send yourself a new message (preferably from a different account) and watch the fun.

This is great! I know there have been times where I was expecting an email, and I was so impatient to see it, that when clicking ‘Get Mail’ produced no results, I just logged into the webmail client instead. This way, my Gmail is pushed to Apple Mail, and I’ll never have to wait again.

Links for the Week Ending August 24, 2008

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Links for the Week Ending August 17, 2008

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Great Audio and Video Podcasts

Aug.14, 2008 in Real Life 1 Comment

I’ve been listening podcasts for years. They’re a great way to keep current on any topic of your choosing, or just for pure entertainment’s sake. I love listening to them during my commute to work (or at work) instead of the radio (I’m sick of being force-fed the musical genius of most of today’s artists).

More and more though, I’ve been watching video podcasts and internet TV shows. They’ve been great this summer since there hasn’t been much new content on traditional TV. I watch them on my iPod, and sometimes through Front Row on my HDTV. You’d be surprised at the quantity and quality of the content out there.

I’ve had a few people ask me about what I’m listening to/watching, so I thought I’d share some of the best ones here.

Audio Podcasts

Video Podcasts

Now, that’s a lot of content considering most of those are published weekly, if not daily. But the beauty is that a lot of times, the content is short (5 minutes or less). It’s enough to give you a quick fix for your topic to hold you over ’til the next 5 minutes (or the longer weekly show as is the case for Tekzilla and popSiren).

This type of entertainment is getting pretty big. Big enough for networks to start forming. Some of my favourite video podcasts come from Revision3, and some of my favourite audio podcasts come from twit.tv, but there are plenty of others out there.

If you have some other good ones, don’t be shy about letting me know either in the comments, or via Twitter.

Enjoy!

Links for the Week Ending August 10, 2008

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Links for the Week Ending August 03, 2008

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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Jul.31, 2008 in Web Leave a Comment

Dr. Horrible\'s Sing-Along blog

This is awesome. It’s about 45 minutes long, but it’s definitely worth a look. It stars Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, and Felicia Day, and it’s directed by Joss Whedon.