Overwhelmed with URLs that friends, family, and co-workers had sent me to, I was shocked to find that my "to be visited" folder had over 150 items, some nearly two years old. So, I called Hazel.

Finley Eversole contacted me for permission to use one of my chambered nautilus images in his book Art, Death and Transformation, to be published by Inner Traditions in 2009. Based on my conversation with Finley, he's a man with personal experience of the abstract expressionists. I gather that his book is about the relationalship of the spiritual to art,...

The fishing trawler Point Reyes is forever aground on a Tomales Bay mud bank behind the Inverness, California general store. Along with the Point Reyes Lighthouse, this wrecked ship is a cannonical photostop on the Point Reyes tour, just as McWay Creek Falls attracts photographers visiting Big Sur. In the same way, Tunnel View in Yosemite is nearly always crowded...

Progress bars allow end-users to anticipate wait times. They present bars that fill from left to right. These bars indicate the degree to which a task has finished. Progress bars work best for long waits where providing state feedback allows your users to retain the feel of control.

Two things are special to me about wandering the night with my digital camera. The first is the way I experience night. The second is the way a digital sensor can reveal colors and shapes in spite of apparent darkness. As a wanderer in the darkness, I enjoy more freedom of the hills than those who must rush back to...

Imagine giving your iPhone the power of a nearby eight-core Mac Pro.

It was late. Too late to record an acoustic flute to kick off a CD I was shipping in the morning. So I downloaded Kong Audio's free flute VSTi, tapped out a few notes, and hit sonic gold.

TaskPaper looks like a simple to-do application at first glance. And, at its heart, that is what it is. But, its real value lies in the multi-access ecosystem that includes a free web service, an Open Source utility for your own web site, and add-on modules for popular applications like BBedit, Textmate, and Vim.

OpenDNS works around my Leopard DNS problems. Is Safari 3.1 really that much faster? When did the right click start doing stuff in Google Docs document list?

The US TSA produced a video for a blog entry about their analysis of the Macbook air from the point of view of getting through security checks. Guess what platform they made it difficult to view on? You get one guess...