Brian Fitzgerald

Steve Jobs's review of his biography: Ban it (CNET News.com)

Daring Fireball is keeping an updated list of new features in Tiger. Lots of sites are doing something similar to this but this list has some pretty unique items. An example is the new ability in Tiger to select discontinuous text or columns of text. I'll let you go there to read the details...

For anybody that might be interested. I have decided to post the files that I used during my session on cascading style sheets yesterday afternoon at the NETA spring conference. There are included here as a zip file that you can expand and proceed to play around with if you wish. The presentation itself is also here. Please be patient with these while they download as my server uplink is not very fast.

neta_css_files.zip

Apple has also redone their third-party software downloads area and it now includes tiger-specific things like Dashboard widgets, Automater Actions and Spotlight Plugins.

Cafe Fighter is a new application that will get rid of what it consider's the new ugly buttons and make the whole application a little more tiger-looking.

Thanks again to all that stuck around for my CSS Session on Friday. Here are the resources that I said I would post.

Web Sites

• CSS Zen Garden
• CSS Vault
• Stylegala
• Layout-o-matic
• Digital-Web Magazine
• A List Apart

Books

• Designing with Web Standards (Jeffrey Zeldman)
• Books by Eric Meyer

Apple has published videos done by nebraska students on their website.

The .Mac site has received a tiger-inspired, much-needed update.

Apple releases Tiger at 6:00 this afternoon (I'm not sure which timezone) :-)

The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster

The googlesightseeing blog links to interesting items on google satellite maps.

Thanks to everyone that attended my workshop this afternoon! As promised, here are some resources that I either referenced throughout the session OR obligated myself to find...

Web Sites

• Dave Winer's Site
• Wil Richardson's Site
• Kirk Langer's Web Log

Macintosh Aggregators (for subscribing to sites)

• NetNewsWire
• PulpFiction

Windows Aggregators (for subscribing to sites)

• FeedDemon (I accidentally referred to this during the workshop as "feed burner")
• Top 10 Windows RSS Feed Readers (why recreate the wheel?)

Web-Based Aggregators (again...for subscribing to sites)

• BlogLines

Posting Tools

• Ecto (Macintosh/Windows)
• MarsEdit (Macintosh)

This story came out a few days ago, but I wanted to get it up here. C|Net posted an article about Microsoft's planned Internet Explorer 7 that discloses that they are planning to make it more standards-compliant. Support for both CSS and PNGs should be much better in it. Alleluia. If it turns out to be a pretty good browser, I'm curious what will happen to Firefox's growing market-share.

Macworld has posted an article listing simple steps every mac user should know to troubleshoot their own computer.

The annual spring conference of the Nebraska Educational Technology Association starts tomorrow. I will be conducting a blogging workshop on Thursday afternoon and presenting a session on cascading style sheets on Friday.

CBS has posted a story about podcasting featuring Adam Curry.

Andy Budd considers the makeup of a perfect web team

LiveVault has an entertaining site advertising their solutions featuring John Cleese.

Daring Fireball has translated Adobe's FAQ regarding the acquisition of Macromedia from PR-Speak to English.

Want to use Safari Smarter? Macworld posted this article detailing some of Safari's most-helpful/least-known features.

It has been announced this morning that Adobe plans to acquire Macromedia. My mind is spinning with all of the things that this could mean. Some things seem obvious. Illustrator will replace Freehand. Dreamweaver will replace GoLive. Acrobat/PDF integration will become tighter everywhere. Flash will certainly stay, but I'm curious to see how it is integrated. I think ColdFusion will become the server piece that Adobe has always needed to really make PDF forms work on the web. The big unknown sticking in my mind is the future of Fireworks. What will happen to it? Will it replace ImageReady?the web graphics program that ships with Photoshop? Will it be killed? I sure hope not. In my opinion, there is nothing like it. Web developers need the option of vector and raster-based applications and as far as raster-looking vector-based applications go, nothing beats Fireworks (and the price is great!).

It will be an interesting year or two while these product lines shake themselves out...

eWeek is running a special report on Weblogs

Will Richardson has posted a RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators

Linux Journal has published an article about Mozilla's about:config settings

Anyone who wants to learn more about the next Xbox console should tune in to MTV on May 12, Microsoft Corp. said Monday. The software maker and cable TV channel have struck a marketing deal to provide an early look at the highly anticipated video game console on MTV channels in the U.S., Asia Pacific and Europe during a 24-hour period, Microsoft said in a statement.