Author Archives for Brad Proctor

Simplify Media: Share your iTunes library over the Internet


Ever been at work or on the road and wanted to listen to a certain song you had on your computer at home? What about sharing your music with friends by just using iTunes?
Both of those situations are possible with an awesome application called Simplify Media. Simplify Media works on both Mac OS X and [...]

How to sync iPhone info separately from iTunes Library


On a daily basis, I use two computers, my iMac at home and the PowerBook I use at work. I ran into a situation where I wanted to sync my info such as contacts, calendars and mail accounts from my work laptop while still being able to sync my iTunes library from my iMac. Unknown [...]

Developing an Intranet with Drupal Part 1: Server Setup and Authentication


I have been developing a new intranet site based on Drupal 6 for the past two months. I decided I would write a series of post explaining the setup, since Drupal is such a widely used CMS used by large to small websites all over the web.
Server Setup
The development setup:
Drupal 6.2
MYSQL 5 and PHP [...]

The Twitter-bug has bit


If you spend anytime on a social networking site from facebook to myspace, you know of the feature, status. What would a site be like that would only tailor to statuses? Well welcome to Twitter, a micro-blogging platform simply asking, “What are you doing?”
Twitter is making news all over the place. A recent story on [...]

My car magnet is better than yours!


A day does not go by that I do not see one of those; I support magnets on someone’s car. What has America come to that we only support people on our bumper and not by standing up for what it means? Support our Troops, how about vote for a president that will not use [...]