• Never leave the machine plugged in all the time. Laptops are meant to be portable. Using it as a desktop that never runs on the battery will destroy your battery life.
• Cycles are your friend. Never letting the battery complete a cycle will greatly diminish your run-time. Try to avoid charging the battery unless it’s drained past 30%. Any time the battery drains past 50% and charges more than 50% counts as a cycle. The farther you let it drain before the charge – the better its overall health will remain.
• 30 cycles in a year is not a good thing.
• Let the battery drain completely a few times a week.

• Never let it sit for long periods of time without use. Batteries need to be loved or else they won’t love you.

And if you follow those “tips” you’ll have a very healthy NiCad battery and a dead LiIon battery. What is this tool thinking? Has he never looked into this at all?

CYCLES ARE BAD.

Leave the unit plugged in, don’t discharge if possible, and charge as soon as you can when you get near power.

Even Apple says this, so why is this ‘tard being an smug idiot?

One more reason not to trust “community” tips.

I started blogging on the desktop with Kung-Log, the precursor to ecto. It was hackish, but worked. Then ecto came out and I was joyous. Then it lay still and broken for years with promises of ecto 3. Then I saw ecto 3.

I bought MarsEdit today. It’s much more Mac-like than ecto 3 is and is, overall, a much cleaner and more usable program than ecto.

If you’re using a Mac and use a website package that accepts an XML-RPC client, hit up Red Sweater Software and take a test drive. Things are much easier with this beast.

Ever the glutton for punishment, am I. If you feel the following items are worth being Dugg, please do. I like to land on there once a week or so for something.

Optimizing AirPort Connectivity

Apple Defects Stellar Reporting

MacBook Pro Voltage on the Case

All said, I’m starting to feel the love of Newsvine again. Sadly, as a publisher you just can’t beat the power of Digg for a massive flux of people that won’t ever care about what you wrote again. Oh, wait, that’s not what I want … I want readers. Which is where Newsvine excels.

But, for now, hit me with Digg. I’m all for a short relationship with readers.

Okay, Dugg all to hell now. Thanks.

A little deduction goes a long way, but I’ll spell it out for the lot of you: this guy is this guy and this guy.

I’m changing my username on the sites I’m an author/owner of to make it more obvious, but now that I’m not working for Apple any more there’s no need to not say who I am as I write about the Mac, so there’s no need for the nickname/alias/handle/cover-of-darkness that was “codepoet”.

But the domain’s nifty, so I’ll keep it.

I noticed that Mac Geekery and codepoetry’s most-pulled files were RSS feeds. I’ve known that for a while, but just noticed it today. Funny that. So then I got to thinking about this fact and realized that for every pull of the feed (without caching) there’s a few dozen queries to be had. Even with caching there’s at least one query to be had. When you get 50K pulls of an RSS feed, that’s a lot of useless queries.

So, what follows is how to make a dynamic page static and updated so that Apache can do what it does best: send a static file.

As-is, the default rewrite rules for Drupal employ a basic test: let Apache send requests that exist, try to create requests that don’t. So, to get a static page in, just make the file exist. I used curl in my crontab to just pull the feed every 15 minutes and save that to a file:

Do you have any idea how hard it is to come up with something to write when your life is one repetitive action after another?

The Geek Spot’s on hiatus because I’m running around trying to get a ton of things done that I’d put on the side to do GS to begin with. I’ve not written anything useful for this site in freaking ages. I’m starting to consider just dumping blogging entirely and moving to just writing things for MG in the future.

But then I realize that’s a little crazy. CP has a history and I should try and cater to it, somehow.

So I suppose what I’d like to do is let MG be the “user’s” site and have CP be the “developer’s” tip site. That would mean I’d have to rebrand any software I write to something else, but that’s not a problem, really.