Check out what can be done with Jing on a Mac! I was talking around the office today and decided I wanted to know if Jing could capture the dashboard and some widgets. Guess I was right! The hint is that you need to use your hotkey, by default on a Mac it’s Command + Shift + 1.
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So this week was pretty good so far. First off, I’ve gotten the A/C all week since my parents asked me to house sit. Anyone that’s been to my apartment knows how hot it gets when it’s hot out, so a change of pace is helpful! Secondly, we got our profit sharing checks at work. Which means, what can I buy….Well this time it allowed me to purchase a much anticipated item, my MacBook!! I’ve been pushing it off for some time, but after I had some issues with Windows XP (for the last time) I decided that it was just time to go completely Mac. So I know have an Intel Mac Mini, which will probably become my desktop since it was my “Apple TV” and the MacBook will pretty much become my daily computer.� If you know of some good open-source applications I can add to my MacBook.� So far I’ve got Adium for an IM client, CyberDuck for FTP, TextMate (though I bought it) for editing, iTerm for Terminal, FireFox (obviously for web-browsing), also added Flock (since I’m addicted to it), Jing for screen capturing and sharing, and CocoaMySQL-SBG for editing MySQL GUI.. If you can think of others I would appreciate it!
My last post was how to add WYMEditor into your Rails app, however I noticed that I recorded it a little too big, so I will try to re-record it this weekend. I’ll also be working on a video show you how to install compile Ruby, Rails, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X. I followed a written tutorial, however, it can sometimes be rather confusing when you try to follow written instructions. 
So I’ve been thinking the past few weeks about whether or not bloging is something I should be doing or not. First off, as you can see, I’m not posting as frequently as I should. My goal is to post once a day, however I always find some reason not to post. I don’t know if it’s doing the research, or creating the video, or what. But if I do choose to continue blogging I need to do it everyday. I manage to take pictures every day, but posting something here I just can’t seem to keep up with.
I guess what I will do is think about continuing this blog. Maybe I’ll change the format around or something so that I can post more frequent than I have been. Maybe I will just do videos or do posts or something. Maybe it won’t even be a broad range of technology; maybe I’ll just narrow my thoughts down a little bit more to one particular area of technology. We’ll see soon enough!