The Laughing Goat Cafe – is Penny Lane back?

Since the demise of the Penny Lane Coffee House in August of 2005 there’s been a void in the Boulder coffee house scene. It’s not that the new ones that have sprung up aren’t nice; Allisons The Cup is cute and Folsom Street Coffee has great seating and nice free off street parking. It’s the […]

Native OS X Applications – all 17000 of them!

Next time someone tells you that there’s very little software for the Mac take a look at this website – 17,322 Native OS X Applications . Sure there are more programs for XP but 117,322 or so programs for the Mac is not too shabby. Here’s a little jewel that I found for you tea […]

Windows to Mac switching in the workplace – What to do when your boss says “NO!”

Here’s a quick and dirty guide to using a mac at work in a windows environment. When your network guru is a windows only wanker and is too lazy to spend an hour or so adding to his skill-set and making himself more marketable simply follow the steps and links in the article below. You […]

My first DJ gig – Wendy’s Valentine’s Day Party

So I’ve always fancied the DJ life style, in the dj booth, jumping up and down to the beats, vinyl in hand, while the crowd below rages on through the night. Ok, it did turn out exactly like that: replace the DJ booth with a rickedy old table that I should of thrown out a long time ago, vinyl with mp3s and the raging with more of an ebb and flow!

New “Really Nasty” Virus set to hit on Feb. 3rd 2006!

Back up all your files people as a new nasty virus is due to hit on FEB 3rd 2006. It’s really nasty in that it will delete all word docs and more. You probably all know about it and have backed up your documents and important data right? 🙂

Notes on Documentary Filmmaking Theory

Documentary Filmmaking Theory

Here are some tips from a favorite book of mine “Introduction to Documentary Production – a guide for media students”. In Chapter 8, Editing non fiction and Documentary Film:

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Initial Project notes on “The Making of Energy Crisis 2012”

In October 2005 I made a short film entitled “Energy Crisis 2012” (view the movie online here)for the “Shoot Out Boulder” a 24 hour filmmaking contest.

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Reply to Match.com Scammers

If you’ve ever been a part of the Match.com circus and you’re a guy then you’ve probably gotten a lot of email from scammer, spammer and general “right old slapper” types saying something like:

[This is what one gal wrote …..]

OS X Virtual desktops

What’s a virtual desktop you may ask. Right now, all the windows that you have open are sitting on one desktop so to speak, just imagine having another computer monitor to your left with say just your mail client open and another screen to your right with say your finder open and an ftp client window open. If you’ve ever seen this in action you’ll know that adding monitors creates one big desktop so to speak or splits your desktop up into 3 sections. It’s nice to just be able to jump to say an FTP client that is neatly aligned next to say ones finder window without having to cmd-tab through a list of all your windows.

MacWorld 2006 NEWS – New Intel PowerBook and iMac!


Ok Mac Cult members the wait is over, here are the new announcements from the 2006 Macworld expo in Sanfran. Yet again Mr J. has stumped us all with the announcement of a new PowerBook not iBook as expected! You gotta love the tagline for the new announcement clearly displayed on the top of front page of the apple.com website “What’s an Intel chip doing in a Mac? A Whole lot more than it’s ever done in a PC!”