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My name is Tony Ballinger, and I'm a web designer living in Oak Park, Illinois.
When I'm not designing for the web, I enjoy music, go to concerts and play with gadgets.

Archive for December, 2006

Xmas Comes Early: Treo 680

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

When I came into work on Friday, I had an early surprise xmas present waiting for me: an orange Treo 680. Carolyn (my boss) knows my love for gadgets, and I had been mentioning that the 680 was coming out for a while now. But I was thinking more of a replacement for her thoroughly [...]

iVolume for OS X

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

I love iTunes, but let’s face facts. Sound check, the feature that is supposed to make sure that the volume of all the tracks in my entire library are normalized, is less than stellar in it’s execution. It’s particularly noticeable when listening to the adjusted songs on the iPod, or through my new Alpine CDE-9852 [...]

Thanksgiving

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

One of the many good things about working for Gerard Design is that they’re pretty generous with the vacation days, particularly around the holidays. So Faith and I were able to spend a bit of extra time back home. The nice thing about going home these days, is that while I enjoy my life in [...]