Hi guys! I’m writing this post to document problems I’ve been having with my main system, a 20″ iMac. If you know what may be up with it, please comment, or send me an email to SphereCat1@gmail.com.
Step 1: Finder crashes.
The first thing that happens is that the Finder freezes. No big deal, I’ll just Relaunch it, right? No. I click the Relaunch button, it quits, and nothing else happens. If I try to restart it by clicking the icon in the Dock, an … Continue Reading
Hi guys! If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I’ve been running into a bug in Webkit that causes an embedded SVG to have a white background, rather than transparent. That was causing my SVG logo on http://alpha.spherecat1.com/ to look terrible in Safari and Chrome, so I have been looking for a fix for some time. I found one!
Update: Here’s a link to the official bug in the MacOSForge mailing list.
And here’s one for Chrome.
One of the new CSS 3 properties available in Webkit-based browsers is CSS Masks. There’s a complete article on masks … Continue Reading
Hi guys! Today I’m announcing a new project from SphereCat1, the EvStick (short for Everything Stick). The EvStick is designed to be used for diagnostics, as well as a backup system in case of hard drive failure, or something else along those lines. It has a complete live version of Linux Mint 8 running on a thumb drive! It will also include tools like Darik’s Boot ‘n’ Nuke, Konboot, the Ultimate Boot CD, and more to come as I find cool stuff. Feel free to make suggestions! There will also be some surprise stuff added just because I think it’s … Continue Reading
R.I.P. CrunchPad
Hi guys. I know, no exclamation point. It’s bad. The CrunchPad really is dead! How did this happen? Well, I won’t go into great detail, you can read Mike Arrington’s full post if you want the whole story. Basically, the manufacturing company that they had partnered with, Fusion Garage, contacted them three days before the official launch and told them that they were no longer involved with the project, and that they would be selling it without TechCrunch’s involvement. That is wrong on … Continue Reading
Hi everybody! Man, is it good to finally have a home on the internet. SphereCat1.com is going to be a container for everything I do on the internet, and this blog is going to be the place where I babble incessantly about said stuff. I’m glad you found your way here, hopefully it’ll be interesting!
All of the new posts will appear on the front page, as usual, but if you want to access the posts from my old blogs, just click on the “Archived” category over there in the sidebar. Enjoy!
Billy