I have a GV number, but I keep the call screening feature turned off because I found that lots of people I actually want to talk to just ignore it. I put it on my business cards and give it out to clients so I can block harassment or spam if that ever occurs. These people are usually not tech-savvy, though, and when…

I agree. Producing an image of a planet with the same detail as one of Earth taken from our moon will likely always be impossible. I referenced the wrong photograph—I really meant something along the lines of the Pale Blue Dot. That may be impossible, but if we can image a planet with even 1/10 of that resolution, we…

I didn't consent. This happened during my senior year in high school, and my medicine was in my locker inside a canister similar to the one pictured above. The school brought around drug dogs one day, and one of them had a hit in the general vicinity of my locker. They searched all the lockers in the area, and mine…

Word to the wise: in many areas, it's illegal to possess prescription medication outside of a dedicated medical container with your name on it. I learned this during a very unpleasant encounter with the police years ago, which involved me being handcuffed and detained in a squad car for thirty minutes while my father…

Well, the most obvious alternative solution is TeamViewer. But that would require a lot of install work, and as I understand it, they at least ask nicely that you pay them if you're using it in an enterprise environment. Is there an exception for nonprofits?

Well, shit. My workplace is reliant on LogMeIn Free (we're a nonprofit). I assume that they'll pay up at some point, but our approval process for any purchase (particularly recurring expenses) can run a month or more. I just wish that they'd given us more time—why not announce this six months out, instead of seven…

I have a completely ordinary and run-of-the-mill name, but I work with a bunch of older people, and on any given day, at least one person will call me some similar-but-wrong name (despite my having corrected them many times). I've taken to just constantly referring to them by the wrong name as well. At least a few…

Unfortunately, disabling DASH playback also appears to disable 480p and any resolution above 720p. Their website says this is due to a "recent YouTube change". I immediately went and tried to play a few 4K videos and found that I couldn't view them in that resolution. The same was true for 1080p videos I tested. The…

Good thing I've got 16GB in all my machines, then.

I'm sure it depends on the state you file in. I was thinking the same thing when I read that line, and wondering where she filed.

I'm a hobbyist designer, and I do have and use all of those programs, but if I were to apply for a graphic design position I'd probably tout my experience with Illustrator over my Photoshop credentials. I guess they'd both wind up on the resume, though. Still, my point was that Pixelmator has no vector-editing…

Yeah, they could probably go ahead and merge them at this point with little to no effect on their profits. I was just pointing out the likely original reason for the separation. After the CC switchover, it's really a matter of tradition and the messy problem of merging two software teams.

Well, it's really just another way to make more money. A lot of graphic designers work extensively with raster assets that often need to be retouched in various ways. Photoshop is by far the superior tool for that, so many people - myself included - feel compelled to purchase both. Of course, with Creative Cloud's…

It's a prosumer application that makes no claims with regards to professional use. Also, graphic designers generally use Illustrator, not Photoshop

On my 15" Retina Macbook, Mavericks has been mostly great. It's solved a few longstanding issues and increased my battery life quite dramatically. There's one frustrating niggle, though - I'm getting lag when entering Mission Control, particularly when Safari is open. I use gfxcardstatus, and this happens even with…

Fantastical has been doing this for ages. Sunrise also takes a similar approach.

I've been going through an extended bout with depression of late. This is the first time I've really felt like this, so I'm still learning how to cope. I consider it fortunate that I've dealt with anxiety for years and that I finally sought help for it and brought it under control with medication and therapy. Because…

This can get really tricky. I moved to a new area a little more than a year ago, and all of my friends- all of them- are from one interconnected group. These people really love to party, and since we live about an hour away from the nearest big city, going to a club or show pretty much necessarily involves spending…

Note to parents: If you track your teenager's location using their phone, they will start turning off their phone and saying the "battery died". If you take their phone, they'll consider it a worthwhile sacrifice to not have their every move watched and cataloged by their parents. If they're smart, they know how to…

I use Chrome on my Mac and PC, but I use Safari on my iPhone. Why? Because of Apple's restrictions, Safari is just objectively better. It renders pages more quickly and handles JavaScript much better than any of the third-party browsers. This is annoying, and I wish they'd change it, but it doesn't look like that will…