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A while back, I retired my iPhone 3GS to the bedside table after buying an iPhone 4. I use the 3GS pretty much as a glorified clock radio-iPod Touch. I have a few radio apps on it and the Digital Clock app. I also have it set to sync and back up over Wi-Fi to my main iMac so I manually initiate a sync when I need to update Podcasts and apps and what have you. This manual syncing has become tiresome. (I mean, if I used a traditional clock radio, I wouldn’t have to update its content manually, right?) It’s simple enough to write an AppleScript to sync a connected iPhone but I want the script to run on a regular basis without me having to fire it. I like to listen to Podcasts in the evening so sometime during dinner would be a good time to update the 3GS with any Podcasts that have arrived during the day. For this, I can create a launchd agent to fire the AppleScript that syncs the 3GS in the background. Here’s how to get all that to swing: First, the script. Because my iPhone 3GS is set to sync via Wi-Fi, it’s ...

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2 Anh Pham wrote: "My favorite photojournalist is Na Son Nguyen from Vietnam. He covers such a wide range of topics that I think it'll be fantastic to take a glimpse of his different projects in one place." Here is one of Nguyen's amazing images: A Buddhist monk takes photo at a temple in Bagan, one of the old royal capital of Myanmar, on November 9, 2010. The ruins of Bagan cover an area of 16 square miles (41 km2) in central Myanmar. The majority of its buildings were built in the 11th century to 13th century, during the time Bagan was the capital of the First Burmese Empire but haphazard and unauthentic restoration by the military junta in recent years has denied the site World Heritage Site status. #

Abraj: Plural of Burj which is Arabic for Tower. Timelapse video featuring the two iconic towers of Dubai. The Burj Al Arab and the world's tallest building. The Burj Khalifa. Commisioned to shoot various timelapses of the Emirate by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai. This is an edit I put together for myself of some of my favourite shots. Including some amazing views from 154 floors up on the Burj Khalifa. Read more about it on my blog post here: philipbloom.net/?p=16650 Music is by Vaughan Williams: Variations on theme by Thomas Tallis

Dropbox shared folders let two users (i.e., two accounts) share a folder of files. See the Dropbox Help for more information. But sometimes Dropbox Sharing is not what you want, e.g., independent work and home accounts. Dropbox Encore enables a second instance of Dropbox to run in a single Mac OS X user account. Each instance of Dropbox must have (1) a unique Dropbox account and (2) a separate local Dropbox folder. N.B. Dropbox does not officially support two accounts on a single Mac account ... but it works. Dropbox does officially support a separate Dropbox account for each user account on a single Mac. Folder and file icons in the second Dropbox do not have the Dropbox "checkmark" indicating the item has been synchronized. Multiple, simultaneous Dropbox accounts can be confusing and lead to mistakes (e.g., my Dropbox Forums blunder). Be sure to check out official Dropbox Sharing before experimenting with Dropbox Encore.

Simply looking over the numbers, it might be hard to wrap your head around what Apple just announced for their Q1 2012 results. A company this big is not supposed to be able to nearly double revenue year-to-year. Nor are they supposed to more than double profit. But Apple did both. The numbers are so big that they almost seem like they should be typos — especially coming after a quarter that was a “miss” (though we can now clearly see what a joke that “miss” was). So perhaps it’s best to point out some bigger numbers and to frame some of them in ways to make them easier to understand. That’s what all of Twitter seemed to be doing anyway during the earnings call this afternoon. Apple’s profit of $13.1 billion was equal to their revenue in Q4 2010, as Jordan Golson notes. To be clear, that was just a year and a quarter ago. That’s how quickly Apple is growing. Apple added $38 billion in cash to its reserves just in the past year alone, as Horace Dediu points out. They now have $97.6 billion in cash and equivale...

Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, “Morris Lessmore” is a story of people who devote their lives to books and books who return the favor. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/ illustrator William Joyce and Co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a new narrative experience that harkens back to silent films and M-G-M Technicolor musicals. “Morris Lessmore” is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time. Film Awards Won by “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” To date, “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” film has drummed up fans all over the world taking home the following awards: · Cinequest Film Fest: Best Animated Short · Palm Springs International ShortFest: Audience Favorite Award · SIGGRAPH: Best in Show To enjoy “Morris Lessm...