Matthew Bodaly

Coffeebot doing my bidding. (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:41:13 -0700

Coffeebot doing my bidding. (Taken with instagram)

This is a good movie and you should watch it. World premier here...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 18:30:09 -0700

This is a good movie and you should watch it. World premier here with Jenn. (Taken with instagram)

Current view. Sitting in the men’s waiting area. (Taken...

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:30:14 -0700

Current view. Sitting in the men’s waiting area. (Taken with Instagram at Nordstrom)

Trusty Tools : Privnote

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:53:25 -0700

I just recently started using Privnote. It creates a one time use note. This has been helpful for me when I need to share things temporarily, like passwords. My new job requires setting up a lot of different kinds of accounts.

More office propoganda (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 31 May 2012 11:52:10 -0700

More office propoganda (Taken with instagram)

My work has propaganda posters. More to come. (Taken with...

Thu, 31 May 2012 08:23:48 -0700

My work has propaganda posters. More to come. (Taken with instagram)

This robot makes my coffee (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 29 May 2012 12:58:35 -0700

This robot makes my coffee (Taken with instagram)

Scarves up! (Taken with Instagram at CenturyLink Field)

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:07:22 -0700

Scarves up! (Taken with Instagram at CenturyLink Field)

I helped can beer yesterday. It was a lot of fun mostly because...

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:35:18 -0700

I helped can beer yesterday. It was a lot of fun mostly because I hadnt done much work in a while and seeing the amount that I did was amazing. So. If you see this beer in a store in the next few weeks, there is a decent chance that I had a hand in it. (Taken with Instagram at Hilliard’s Brewery)

Aqua man found.

Sun, 06 May 2012 16:01:23 -0700

Aqua man found.

Trusty Tools will return this Friday

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:57:23 -0700

This Friday, another Trusty Tools will be posted.

Developing pictures this afternoon

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:13:00 -0700

Developing pictures this afternoon

Trusty Tools 4: Songbird

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:57:21 -0700

I like free things. I really like free things. I occasionally move my music between drives. This invariably creates alot of duplicates. Songbird to the rescue! Here is how I cleaned up my iTunes library.

Download Songbird
When you setup Songbird, do not allow it to Import / Export to iTunes.
Setup Songbird to watch the folder where all of the music is located. Click here for their help page.
Download and run The Exorcist. You will need to scroll down for the the supported version. This will also probably cause Songbird to freeze… for a while. I had alot of duplicates so I just let my computer sit and churn on the folder for a while.

The logic goes like this:

Use Songbird to sort out the files you have. Don’t use the iTunes Library file since that is the one that has all of the bad links / duplicates.
Delete your iTunes library file (yes, this will reset a bunch of play counts and potentially ratings… but I didn’t have this setup). On the Mac, this is under USERNAME > Music > iTunes Library.xml
Recreate your iTunes library. Use File > Import on the menu bar. Make sure in iTunes preferences you do NOT have the copy settings turned on. Click here for the screenshot.

This should leave you with a duplicate and ghost free music listening experience. These steps might not work for everyone… I had ALOT of duplicates and sometimes three or four of one song so I was interested in a very automated and very fast fix (instead of iTunes built-in fixer).

Songbird has a bunch of really nice features that iTunes doesn’t have for streaming and discovery which make it an ideal iTunes replacement competitor.

Found another fallout shelter. This time apartment building. ...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:27:24 -0700

Found another fallout shelter. This time apartment building. (Taken with instagram)

Freehanding. Doodle in a notebook. (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:46:58 -0700

Freehanding. Doodle in a notebook. (Taken with instagram)

Trusty Tools 3: Evernote

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:59:26 -0700

Evernote is a great application for note taking. I use this with my team to create a shared notebook of information. This is usually information that frequently changes or is too small to get filed into a Knowledge Base article or is just used for one time information gathering.

One of its best features for us was upgrading to Pro and having these notebooks cached on your mobile device for offline use. This is great for when you are onsite somewhere and need information, but don’t have the Internet for it.

Evernote can also take scans, emails, and files and does a great job of indexing EVERYTHING. It can even do OCR on images so you can search for text in the image (think business cards or scanned invoices).

There is both a free and a paid version. Both are great. I hope this quick plug was helpful. If you have questions, please reply to me on Twitter @thejedi.

So today’s commute was super sucky. Even the side streets...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:19:29 -0700

So today’s commute was super sucky. Even the side streets were super slow. (Taken with instagram)

ECCC 2012

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:43:32 -0700

Here is a picture from Emerald City Comicon. More pictures here (Flickr). I had a great time.

Trusty Tools 2: LastPass Enterprise

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:00:05 -0700

LastPass Enterprise is a version of LastPass that is designed for teams. Everyone should have some sort of password management to prevent you from using the same one or two passwords on every site across the entire Internet. If you aren’t, there is a free version of LastPass and other similar products to help you out with this problem.

I use the enterprise version with my team to sync sensitive passwords to things that we only have one account to. Now, we can have 30 digit passwords that make no sense AND regularly change the password. Then, when we do this, LastPass automatically remembers the change AND syncs it to all of our team members.

This has totally removed the need to send emails out with passwords and keep random plain text files of sensitive information.

I hope this is useful to you. Please send a reply on Twitter to me @thejedi.

Here are the rest of the shots I developed from my Holga. I now...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:46:22 -0700

Here are the rest of the shots I developed from my Holga. I now know why digital is so popular… I spent about 5 hours figuring out just a few prints.

Practice practice practice.

This tree is my favorite of the bunch.

Click on the picture to see the rest on Flickr or click here.