http://quacktacular.net Not just another duck in the pond Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:45:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While people would rarely choose to share their boots, its perfectly acceptable to share ones boot disk. Amongst your computers that is. After a series of unfortunate events surrounding my Mac OS X Leopard disc, I found that there are many ways you can get a fresh copy of OS X running on ... http://quacktacular.net/2008/12/one-boot-fits-all/ Want to sync to your address book, calendar, and bookmarks? Don't want to pay $100 a year? Doh. That's the answer of yesterday, because I've got some news for you. Now you can sync your stuff seamlessly and for FREE. That's right, after waiting on a little or no cost solution for ... http://quacktacular.net/2008/12/mobileme-without-the-massivefee/ I've been working on a new theme for MyBB and its almost ready. Aardvark has a modern, minimalist design that carries over elements of Dark Intentions, N.Design and other popular MyBB themes. That said, it has a style all its own and some neat new features built in. For example, the ... http://quacktacular.net/2008/11/aardvark/ A couple months ago I ordered the Elgato EyeTV 250 Plus from the online Apple Store (free shipping FTW). Technically speaking its a TV tuner, but I bought it for its cassette digitizing abilities - more on that later. I thought that was the only use I'd get out of it too, since ... http://quacktacular.net/2008/11/eyetv-in-canada/ I've long dreamed of setting up a Mac based media center. So during the past few days I've been testing out some solutions to this little problem. There are the obvious ones, like the AppleTV, and then some more complicated mixtures of hardware and applications.  My goal is to sync or ... http://quacktacular.net/2008/10/big-ideas-for-a-mac-mini/ The downloads and contact form stopped working after I upgraded to WordPress 2.6.2 yesterday. Sorry for the inconvenience, I'll fix the problem later today. In the mean time, please download the themes from the MyBB Mods site and send email directly to webmaster@quacktacular.net. Edit: The downloads and contact form are working ... http://quacktacular.net/2008/09/download-contact-form-problems/ I finally moved the Inter-A website over to WordPress. There were a number of advantages to the move which I'll outline below. Painless adding and editing of content. Multiuser editing (students, teachers) Easy plugins for extended functionality Save draft content for review Great SEO Administration time cut in half On top of the switch to WordPress, I ... http://quacktacular.net/2008/09/inter-a-on-wordpress/ I just updated for Dark Intentions for MyBB 1.4.2. You'll also find a fluid (full window) version of the theme in the new package. An update for for N.Design is soon to follow, and I'm working on something new as well.  [download id=4] http://quacktacular.net/2008/09/mybb-142-theme-updates/ The world is full habits and quirks, and over time people come to accept all that quirkiness. A lot of the time it seems that acceptance evolves into some sort of dependence. Soon we find ourselves addicted to the way things work. This can be observed in everyday life, but if you're looking for some proof right ... http://quacktacular.net/2008/09/change-is-strange/ Some of you may have seen my post on the MyBB Community Forums yesterday. I put up a screenshot and beta version for download, and today I think Dark Intentions (1.4.1) is ready its real release. The theme brings a sleek, high-contrast look to MyBB and increases ergonomics of the GUI. The ... http://quacktacular.net/2008/09/dark-intentions-14-release/