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How Not To Have To Right-Click a Hundred Photos

bryan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:54:40 +0000

I just published my first post on the Redfin Developers’ blog: How Not To Have To Right-Click a Hundred Photos. And, no, don’t worry. I’m not switching back to the light side from the PM dark side. I just had to work some old muscles again.

Cleaning Up Behind Skitch

bryan — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:00:28 +0000

I’ve gotten hooked on Skitch, a screen capture application that was bought byEvernote recently. It’s been a handy addition to my day-to-day toolset. However, there was one thing about the Mac version of Skitch that drove me nuts: it saved copies of every screen grab in my Pictures folder (and there’s currently no way archive [...]

Google Voice, Android and Sprint: Nice Integration, But Not Without Hiccups

bryan — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:17:33 +0000

One of our latest projects at work is on Android, the mobile OS powered by Google. However, as my last post probably pointed out, I’m a pretty avid iPhone user but that also meant I’d never dabbled with Android before. I don’t really designing software for unfamiliar uses, so I asked around to find an [...]

Jailbreaking an iPhone 4: Lessons Learned

bryan — Sun, 15 May 2011 18:05:14 +0000

Sometimes you wonder if a project was worth it. Upgrading my jailbroken iPhone turned out to be one those projects. I’d previously upgraded iPhone 4 to a jailbroken iOS 4.3.2 via PwnageTool. I remember there were one or two tricks that I had to figure out, but it was otherwise very straightforward (especially since I’m [...]

Cleaning Up a Giant Photo Files Mess

bryan — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:22:52 +0000

A while ago, either or iPhoto managed to somehow to create one giant event with about 6,000 of my pictures in it taken from many, many different folders in my photo directory. It also managed to nuke the original “date taken” EXIF header in those files so iPhoto wouldn’t split the photos into events. This [...]

Redfin launches School Reviews, Mortgage Guide

bryan — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:20:05 +0000

Looking back, my blogging here has been pretty sparse over the past couple months. Mostly that’s because I’ve been too busy with work and finishing our home remodel to come up with anything interesting to write. Sorry. But I can post today about Redfin’s Thursday website upgrade with schools on the map, school reviews & [...]

Fixing The Windows Media Player vs. iTunes Album Art Mess

bryan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:20:43 +0000

Years ago, I built the majority of my digital music library under Microsoft’s Windows Media Player (WMP). Since then, I’ve switched to Mac and iTunes as my digital media of choice. Generally, importing your MP3 music folders created by Windows Media Player into iTunes on the Mac works just great. Pretty much all the track [...]

Fry’s has one hot network drive

bryan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:58:25 +0000

This drive is so hot, it’s steaming! From the Fry’s ad on 11/6… time to find a new proofreader!

SOLVED: VMWare Fusion, Windows Vista and Boot Camp

bryan — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:49:23 +0000

It took a ton of Googling, but I finally figured out how to get past the errors I was seeing trying to launch my Boot Camp partition in Fusion. When I did a Safe Mode boot of Windows in Boot Camp, I could see that chkdsk.sys was in my way, but I could not figure [...]

Qwest: Epilogue

bryan — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:17:37 +0000

I received the first bill in the mail from Qwest, but before I could even open it, Steph had followed up with an email letting me know she'd taken care of the promised credit. Impressive follow-up from a customer they hadn't dealt with in a few weeks.