Tommy Peters' Bicycles

He simply poured when something occurred. Lady D'Arbanville (Mona Bone Jakon) and Sad Lisa (Tea For The Tillerman) are little stories born out of circumstances - stories we share. Someone said - "To read a headache, focus on the tumor" . His songs generally express pain rather than reflect taste buds of the audience. His early days saw him singing of children and the free spirit of adolescence. Personal circumstances then overwhelmed enthusiasm, after which he appeared to have a beef with Christ . His compositions then dabbled in eastern mysticism and without notice, he went off the radar. After the blip, he appeared to say he is a servant of Allah and that the Tillerman within is in conflict with his servitude. 25 years later, the reverse is proven true when Tea is served for the Tillerman with An Other Cup. P.S. The Star (blog) has declined to publish this commentary. I wonder why! A comment here I made on Blog Critics three years ago (December 2006) Cheers, ...

Adobe claims a staggering 100 million installations of its AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime). Having confidence in numbers, I installed the runtime environment that deploys widget-like applications on the desktop. I then added AOL’s Top100 Videos , DeskTube and Times Reader (depicted in the screencast) out of several client-applications placed on Adobe's AIR Marketplace . The advantages are apparent. If you rather not consume resources by browsing the web, AIR simply provides a track that does the heavy-lifting of streaming content directly onto your desktop. The disadvantages are not. To work with data efficiently, AIR is installed in your local file system providing access to user data stored in its servers, but not before you consent with Trust Certificates. The convenience of runtime applications, particularly in low-bandwidth arrangements, trumps the risk of user data being compromised, besides, 100 million installs underscores Adobe’s brand premium. (Pos...

A good friend offered me a Snow Leopard license from his Family Pack, which I installed in my MacBook Pro. My brother reserved two, which I used for the Minis. The iMac and MacPro are pending. They are still with Leopard. The thing is, my friend is aware Apple never copy-protected its operating systems and its Family Packs are always identical to its Single User versions. He is aware Apple never penalized or crime-screened machines with breached End User License Agreements but then, why did he not procure the Single User version at half the cost of the Family Pack, to cover his machines and benevolence to friends. Well, that is the way he is trained to think and his training and thinking are his rice. He said what separates Apple from its competitors is that it may be another company making computers but it acts like a studio creating art. He said although its EULAs carry the option to 'a buse' , it posits a moral issue. In other verbiage, when you break a contract, you become...

A friend asked an elementary question. Can Macs read Word? In other verbiage I answered, Macs run XP, Vista and 7. They control PCs but not vice versa. They are on a higher loft. The screencast depicts 5 machines - a MacBook Pro, 2 MacMinis, a Dell notebook and a Gigabyte tablet, controlled by an iMac over my home network. Programs employed are Apple Remote Desktop 3.3 and TightVNC 1.3.10. Control over the web can be configured. The iMac with ARD installed is the Task Server with Sharing configured on the Pro and Minis to allow control. The Dell and Gigabyte have Tight installed, through which ARD is employed to sync. Tight, a GNU-GPL freeware is recomended over other freeware such as RealVNC because 1. it runs from a thumb-drive, if preferred, and 2. configuration is relatively easy. Macs read Word. Cheers, Tommy Video tools: Screenflow, iTunes, Rainforest Reflection (Buddha Lounge) ©

Du Salde - Lisa Ekdahl (YouTube download) Simon Vrel is the Ian Andersen of software and LogMeIn is his Budapest, but his other little gem, GetTube , may have escaped the attention of Mac users. The screencast depicts GetTube downloading YouTubes. For video downloads, nothing beats pulling algorithms from Safari's Activity menu, but notice the simplicity of Vrel's creation. Choose destination. Choose format and perhaps, donate. That's it. Cheers, Tommy Screencast Tools: GetTube, YouTube, ScreenFlow