http://www.bitcontrol.org Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:34:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A cursory glance at Twitter over the past few weeks shows quite a few people aren't happy with the time it takes the iPhone 2.0 software to complete a backup when it's synced in iTunes. There is an easy way to prevent iTunes from backing up the iPhone, but first a ... http://www.bitcontrol.org/2008/07/31/turn-off-iphone-backups/ WWDC08 is upon us, and I neglected to advertise the talk that I am giving with the very talented Jeff Watkins. We are presenting: Session 454: Improving Responsiveness in Websites and Web Applications.Friday, June 13th 2:00PM-3:15PMMarina Conference Room We have some great optimization techniques to go over with you, and we ... http://www.bitcontrol.org/2008/06/08/speaking-at-wwdc08-session-454/ I often have many external volumes connected to my laptop at any given time (network drives, iPods, external HD, etc.). It can be annoying to manually disconnect each one of them before I unplug the USB hub. Instead I use a quick AppleScript to do the job of ... http://www.bitcontrol.org/2008/02/06/applescript-to-unmount-all-drives/ The posts have been scant around here, primarily because I've been preparing for my move from DC to the Bay Area to join a wonderfully talented web development team at Apple. I'll miss the excellent people at Revolution Health, and the great web community that has been bubbling in ... http://www.bitcontrol.org/2007/11/18/starting-a-new-job-at-apple/ Today I upgraded my MacBook Pro from Tiger to Leopard, and I thought I would share a few of the things that I noticed or came up against. The upgrade took just over an hour from start to finish. Mail Act-On, Mail.appetizer, Letterbox View & Mail Badger bundles for Mail.app are all ... http://www.bitcontrol.org/2007/10/25/after-the-upgrade-to-leopard-tips-and-information/ I recently wrote about keeping Safari 2 after installing Safari 3 beta. Turns out, as I corrected in the original entry, that isn't true. This leads me to a question, What are people going to do to test both sites in both Safari 2 (Tiger's shipping version of ... http://www.bitcontrol.org/2007/10/15/testing-in-safari-2-and-safari-3/ A month ago I wrote about a YouTube video that popped up showing off content aware image resizing. At the time there was just a video, now a flash app on the site Rsizr has appeared that actually allows you to use the technology. According to the about ... http://www.bitcontrol.org/2007/10/04/rsizr-content-aware-resizing-program/ Recently, I've been traveling quite a bit, which means spending time away from a sleep environment that I've become accustom too. At night, when I first go to bed, I like to listen to the radio for an hour or so on a sleep timer, but while on the ... http://www.bitcontrol.org/2007/10/04/itunes-sleep-timer-script/ Form buttons eventually become the bane of every web designer/developer's existence, with the developers pushing for flat styled HTML buttons for ease of implementation and creative pushing for slightly more complex graphical buttons. The trick to using graphical buttons lies in the creation of a semi-automatic scheme to build ... http://www.bitcontrol.org/2007/09/25/automating-the-creation-of-graphic-buttons/ Email replies are one of the aspects of email management that I struggle with. The problem isn't that I don't known what to say in response, but rather there is too much for me to say and the task of replying to 20, 30 or 40 emails a day ... http://www.bitcontrol.org/2007/08/29/five-sentence-e-mail-replies/