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Re: Shopify Editions: Introducing the Most Powerful Version of Shopify POS Ever and New Hardware Coming Soon

George Coghill — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 00:52:00 -0000

Agreed, we need a general timeframe on this new hardware.

Re: The "noisy neighbor" approach to meditation - BrettTerpstra.com

George Coghill — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 21:13:07 -0000

I recently reached what I believe to be the "access concentration" stage of meditation, and I was surprised by how unlike my preconceived notions it was.

Much of my experience in meditation has been counter to both my erroneous pop-culture-tainted concepts of what meditation is and how to do it, as well as to a lot of what I've read in books and online posts.

The inverse approach is something I'm seeking out actively now, since I think many of us reach these states in unique or nontraditional ways.

I should also mention that once you reach that access concentration stage, you really do not need to make much effort to observe thoughts arise and let them pass. It's kind of just what happens when you hit that stage.

And reaching that stage surprised me, because for me at least it was a state of awareness more alert, present and aware of my surroundings than I expected; I'd been anticipating being off in some relaxed, blissful and isolated mental space.

But it was the opposite — I was more present, more aware of my surroundings and far more alert and attentive. The opposite of what I was expecting.

Now, instead of the relaxation-seeking method I used to use, I am more like a drill sergeant keeping close tabs on my awareness. My meditations are active, full of effort, and surprisingly more productive and enjoyable now.

Re: Sales Tax Guide for Artists

George Coghill — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:03:14 -0000

Perfect, thanks!

Re: Sales Tax Guide for Artists

George Coghill — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 01:01:40 -0000

Extremely informative and helpful post. If I understand this correctly, an artist selling temporarily one weekend in another state will result in sales tax nexus in that state, and therefore all online sales to that state would then need to be charged sales tax going forward? Or is the sales tax nexus only applicable while the artist is actually making sales in that state during the temporary event? What if the artist never returns to do an event in that state?

Re: Drafts Directory: Action: Prompt Input

George Coghill — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:17:52 -0000

Thank you, same issue here and your solution fixed it.

Re: Drafts Directory: Action: Tag

George Coghill — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 11:56:46 -0000

This is a great action, but it will not run if the draft is empty. Not sure if this is a Drafts issue or an issue with the script.

Re: Drafts Directory: Key: [s] (Select sentence)

George Coghill — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:24:40 -0000

This script only selects single characters for me.

Re: How to use Google Maps offline for iOS

George Coghill — Mon, 16 May 2016 14:53:21 -0000

I tried using Apple Maps offline over the weekend (iOS 9.3) and it demanded a data connection when I launched Apple Maps. I had already routed my trip on wi-fi too. Zero issues with saving an area to the Google Maps app and using it offline — I drove two hours back and forth with cellular data turned off and the turn-by-turn in the Google Maps app worked great.

Re: A Realistic, Encouraging, Compassionate, No-Nonsense, Research-Backed, Action-Oriented Guidebook to Managing Your Depression | The Art of Manliness

George Coghill — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 23:09:43 -0000

Superb series. As a fellow struggler with the "black dog", and a voracious reader on the topic, I can confirm the efficacy of the suggestions here.

Once you accept that to meet the challenges of depression, you're going to need to establish habits during your non-depressed periods so you can weather the storms, you'll be on your way to getting a handle on these dark periods. Depression doesn't go away, but you can learn to deal with it.

As emphasized in this article, the key is action and activity. Make it a habit to walk daily, even for 1 minute. Make that habit ingrained. Your exercise and activity will grow from that seed. This physical activity will be the cornerstone of your coping techniques. You'll even come to enjoy it!

In some sense, I look to my struggles with depression as a positive thing because it forced me to take stock, step up to the challenge and continue to meet it head-on. I've improved my life and myself because of it, and it's only just begun.

I've come to accept that depression is never going away, but I continue to hone the skills that allow me to deal with it more effectively, and those skills have enhanced my entire life.

Great post, great series. Nice work.

Re: Ghostnote - Support

George Coghill — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:16:27 -0000

Done.

Re: Ghostnote - Support

George Coghill — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:35:07 -0000

The Finder, Illustrator, Photoshop so far.

Re: Ghostnote - Support

George Coghill — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:46:24 -0000

Definitely needs a customizable keyboard command to show/hide the note window.

Re: Ghostnote - Support

George Coghill — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:44:39 -0000

How to I get document notes to work? I installed the scripts but I just get app-level notes. No clue how to delete notes either.

Re: Ghostnote - Support

George Coghill — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:35:22 -0000

Yeah this looks great. Been wanting an app like this for a long time. I too would like to see the auto-appearing detached notes feature. Does the menubar icon indicate id a selected item has a related note available?

Dos it work with (and while in) Open/Save dialog windows?

The note browser is definitely needed. I will probably pick up a copy to support the development, but hope those features are added soon.

Re: Beyond "Sissy" Resilience: On Becoming Antifragile

George Coghill — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:29:10 -0000

Great book synopsis. It would be great of the site had more of these, and if the posts were tagged as such to gather them up easily.

As far as Antifragile, I found the concepts dovetailing quite a bit with an idea I've been toying with in my mind lately, that of our over-dependence on (addiction to?) convenience. Taleb makes a good argument for how anti-fragility differs from hormesis — which was where I'd assumed the book was going to head.

Antifragile wasn't the easiest read! and some of Taleb's writing style didn't sit well with me (the Fat Tony and Nero stuff was a bit odd), but overall he did a good job of keeping the technical stuff to a minimum. The book did seem a bit redundant at times, but as one Amazon reviewer said, the book itself is structured according to Taleb's redundancy suggestions for Antifragility!

I've been suggesting your synopsis over Taleb's book due to the sheer unlikeliness of many friends to actually read the book, despite it being filled with concepts that these friends would enjoy and benefit from. Thanks.

Re: Automating FIle Uploads to Your Webserver using a Mac

George Coghill — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:16:11 -0000

Even better, Hazel now has FTP built-in.

Re: Review: Wacom's Pressure-Sensitive Intuos Creative Stylus for iPad

George Coghill — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:52:36 -0000

An artist friend and Mac geek picked up a Surface Pro specifically for this reason. She found much to be desired in the device as far as performance, touch sensitivity and the like. Enough that she returned it. Her goal was to have desktop apps on a tablet device, and was willing to go past her bias and preference for Apple devices to do this. But for her, the Surface Pro wasn't even close.

Re: Review: Wacom's Pressure-Sensitive Intuos Creative Stylus for iPad

George Coghill — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:49:37 -0000

Nice review. I just got one myself, and I am noticing a distinct "rattle" in the tip when the tip touches the screen. As if there is a gap between the tip and sensor in the body. When drawing quickly repeated strokes, this gets annoying real fast. Have you noticed this? I've seen reports elsewhere that others have experienced this, but don't seem to mind. Wondering if mine is defective.

Re: Shipment Tracking with Junecloud's Delivery Status

George Coghill — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:42:41 -0000

Did not know about this method, thanks for sharing!

Re: softproduct - a blog by kiril savino - Blog - Lift: a product request against my better judgement

George Coghill — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:37:16 -0000

Agreed on all your points!

Re: softproduct - a blog by kiril savino - Blog - Lift: a product request against my better judgement

George Coghill — Wed, 22 May 2013 00:37:15 -0000

First, great to see Tony reply in detail. Very cool. All the Lift folks I've interacted with have been that way so far. Second, I think you are indeed a "normal" user. Your gripes/suggestions are the same as mine. I dig the app, but there seem to be roadblocks to using it. At first I thought perhaps they wanted to encourage adding comments to checkins.

Habit buddies and accountability will be a big improvement I think. I can see how it will be tricky to implement correctly, but with the thoughtful releases thus far I always assumed the Lift team was working on these diligently behind the scenes until they were satisfied they had it right.

One of the big gripes I have is social: I've not only picked up new habits from others, but have learned much about how and why they do things. However the access to these conversations is not very easy. The Groups thing looks promising (I'm a beta team member), but right now there's no discovery mechanism.

But as I said, the lIft team seems focused on the right stuff and Tony's reply above gives me faith that they are smartly and conscientiously working to improve the same things us users want to see added and changed.

Great post.

Re: The Sun: Rise and Fall

George Coghill — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:30:57 -0000

I looked at a lot of these types of apps for determining Magic Hour for photography, and while not free, Sol was the winner: http://www.juggleware.com/i... - I like the visual display of the information as well as dynamic relative alarms for events ("15 minutes before Sunset" etc.). Goes on sale quite often.

Re: Cracks in the World

George Coghill — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:32:23 -0000

Totally agree here. I try to mix up my posts between geek tips and personal observations, but for whatever reason the factual stuff seems more compelling to post. Probably because its what I'm usually searching for.

Re: http://www.2ality.com/2011/01/bookmarklets-quickly-link-to-website.html

George Coghill — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:39:43 -0000

Thanks for sharing, the title & URL bookmarklet was just what I was looking for. Made a small tweak so it put the URL on a new line, otherwise perfect.

Also, the "source link" bookmarklet did not work for me in Safari 6.02.

Re: Creating iCloud synced Reminders from Mail.app on OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion - vanderVeer.be

George Coghill — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 11:32:53 -0000

Excellent, thanks for sharing! I'm trying to modify this to work with a Mail rule, so certain emails trigger it. My script code is here: http://pastebin.com/ZVRqZhJb - any ideas what I am doing incorrectly?