In trying to choose a palette for a new website I found a website

that generates a palette for a photo you select, and I made this:







I think those would make excellent colors for the San Francisco flag

when.. I mean if, we secede. Just throwin' that out there.



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I'm pretty sure the young girl that works at my coffee shop has a crush on me. Every time I go in she forgets half my order, or rings it up wrong, or doesn't know what a danish is. The trouble is, she's Ukrainian I believe. So, I don't know for sure that she's kissing my coffee lids, but surely they'd have fired her if she was that clumsy all the time. I wish that the male social role encouraged the opposite sex to shower us with gifts the way the female role does. I'd sure like to get the hookup on some coffee and baked goods, if I'm going to be checked out.

Those who listen to my harebrained ideas enough are well aware by now that my favorite Web2.0ism is the Feed. I like reading them, and I especially like it when websites distribute the content I post with them. In my head each time I post a photo to Flickr I see it instantaneously appear in the feedreader of every person I know, regardless of the fact that I may be the only person I know who uses a feedreader. The same goes for my Twitter tweets, my Del.icio.us bookmarks, and even this blog entry. It seems every website online today gives you a feed of some sort or another. The trouble is getting your friends and family to subscribe to all of them!



For a long time I've wanted a service that could mash all these feeds I produce together into one feed which I could tell people to subscribe to, and then add and remove feeds as I saw fit without making my followers change URLs. After a few attempts to construct such program myself, I found Yahoo! Pipes. For those who don't know, Yahoo Pipes is a kind of visual programming system, that lets you load and process feeds in a variety of ways. In no time I had wired together a few modules, and I had solved my problem. I call it MEGAFEED™!



To get started using MEGAFEED™ (yes, you have to capitalize it), you must first use Del.icio.us to tag all your feeds with the tag "my_feed". Once you've done so you simply enter your Del.icio.us username, and run the pipe. Presto! You've got an easy to maintain MEGAFEED™. You can add more feeds at anytime by simply tagging them with Del.icio.us, and remove the tag from any feed you don't want to include anymore. Share the resulting feed with your family and friends and they will only have to keep one feed in their feedreader in order to keep up with all of your e-Doings!



Click here to build your very own MEGAFEED™

Hi Jesse,

I remember a looooong time ago, you told Mandy something to do on her mac to free up space--some things that weren't needed. What was it? Laney just updated my laptop to 10,4, and now I don't have enough room to do anything . . .



Thanks!

Traci

Traci



Man it's good to have someone ask me a geek question again! I've kinda been distancing myself from the whole Interwebosphere of late because I moved to a city where the things that are happening on my block are actually interesting enough to distract me from this evil little white plastic succubus, but it's good to feel like a guru again!



There's a couple things that can g`o in a default installation of Tiger. First thing you'll probably want to do is get rid of GarageBand, if it was installed. They give you lots of really awesome loops and sound effects to use, but if you never use them, then they just sit there taking up gigs of space. You can find these in /Library/Application Support/Garage Band, or something like that. On a similar note, iDVD, and iMovie contain gigs of content that they use to make pretty menu screens on your DVDs which again is useless if you don't make DVDs.



Once you've eliminated all the "clip media", the next waste of space is the international translations that are embedded in all your applications. Some applications have very negligibly sized alternative language data, but some, like iPhoto, and iWeb take up hundreds of megabytes. You can disable the languages that you don't need by selecting any application in your finder, and pressing CMD + I, then expanding the "Languages" tab, selecting the languages to trash, and clicking the "remove" button.



Next on the chopping block are printer drivers. Apple includes about two gigs of these which I've always thought was kinda silly, but I'm sure it makes printing a lot easier on people. If you don't print, then you can just can all of them. If you wanted to give yourself the option of maybe being able to print if ever the occasion arose, you could leave yourself with the GNU Print Drivers, which are relatively small, and able to do basic printing on a wide variety of printers. I don't believe these are always installed, but they are an optional installation package on the 10.4 DVD, and if you can't find them there you're bound to find them on the internet, they are GNU after all.



And to cover anything I'm forgetting, to get a general idea of where your space is going, you can just open a finder window for your hard drive and set it to list view and sort by size. By pressing CMD+J and checking the box that says "Calculate all sizes" your directories will eventually be sorted by size as well. This takes a little time so give your HD a second to crunch the numbers. Once you're looking at your entire HD in this way, you'll be able to single out the chubby directories and applications and make decisions about what should stay and what should go.