Author Archive for BJ Clark

BJ Clark is an designer/developer by trade and an artist at heart. Located in the arid desert of western Colorado, BJ has been making a living doing graphic design for his customers in a small commercial printshop for the last 7 years. BJ also develops web applications in his spare time using Ruby On Rails. He began his love afair with Macs close to 10 years ago about the time that Steve Jobs came back to Apple Computer. Since then, he has owned almost one of every style of Mac starting with the Bondi Blue iMac and has set up and managed a 30+ Mac network, ran a web hosting business based on the xServe and converted so many PC users to Macs that he lost count long ago. His current "other girlfriend", as his beautiful girlfriend Becky referes to it, is a 1Ghz G4 Titanium Powerbook, however he also has a G5 Powermac and a G5 iMac. BJ's hobbies include pottery, coaching competitive youth soccer, home maintainence, hiking, photography, and his fleet of vintange Volkswagens.

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An Open Letter to Steve about the iPhone SDK

Written on November 20, 2007 by BJ Clark and 11 people have commented

Dear Steve,
Your recent announcement of an upcoming iPhone SDK, made under the radar via your Hot News page, was very welcomed by most iPhone users. We can’t wait to have native version of Skype and Instant Messaging clients on our phone, and not put there via Jailbreaking. This really should have been in software developers [...]

JLab MiniBlaster

Written on November 05, 2007 by BJ Clark and 1 person has commented

I’m not the biggest fan of Apple’s ear buds, or headphones of any kind for that matter, so when I received JLab’s MiniBlaster to review, I was pretty stoked, but, I was pretty sure I’d be disappointed. These speakers are small (about the size of 4 old nanos one on top of the other) and [...]

JLab iPhone Case

Written on November 02, 2007 by BJ Clark and 4 people have commented

I have always been a fan of the Apple iPod case that came with my 3G iPod when I bought it over 4 years (you remember, those cheap fabric cases that you just slide the ipod into). In fact, I still use the iPod and the case. So, when I received the JLab iPhone case, [...]

Apple developing Web 2.0 App?

Written on April 25, 2007 by BJ Clark and 9 people have commented

 It looks like our favorite computer hardware maker is hiring a “Sr. Manager, Web 2.0 Development“.
Would could Apple possibly be up to? Myspace comes to iTunes? Facebook on your iPhone? iPhoto to make better friends with Flickr? iMovie goes YouTube?
Very interesting. Let the speculation commence.

Rumor: iPhone to get service discount?

Written on March 07, 2007 by BJ Clark and 2 people have commented

iphone receipt full

6 Tools for Web Design

Written on February 27, 2007 by BJ Clark and 71 people have commented

Today I came across an article with a few ‘tools’ for web design and frankly, I thought it pretty lame and unexciting. There were 2 things on there that I felt were actually good information, Color Schemer and Typetester. The other, information was either lame (a “handy dandy” notebook) or untrue (”Mountain Dew“).
So, [...]

New AirPort Extreme Features Leopard Ready?

Written on January 10, 2007 by BJ Clark and 17 people have commented

As most people have noticed, Apple, Inc. quietly dropped a new AirPort Extreme Tuesday. And most of those people noticed that besides the “N” upgrade, the other new feature Apple added to the AirPort Extreme is Instant Drive Sharing. Basically, the new AirPort Extreme has USB 2.0 port and when you attach any USB 2.0 [...]

Flickr Tools

Written on October 23, 2006 by BJ Clark and 12 people have commented

Flickr (owned by yahoo!) is one of the most widely used “web 2.0” online applications. If you have never heard of flickr, it’s a photo sharing/social networking application and was one of the first applications to use “tags” (or folksonomy as it’s technically called). Flickr is free to use and upload 20mb of photos [...]

Encrypt your email address on your website

Written on August 01, 2006 by BJ Clark and 21 people have commented

This Lifehacker post about encrypting text on your website using Javascript reminded me of some little known OS X-only software that I use on my websites.
Email Encoder from Closenit Sofware is a free and brilliant little app that weighs in at all of 68k. The basic idea is that you input your email [...]

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