Why does Windoze still suck?
Monday, February 7, 2005
Here's an interesting article at sfgate.com reopening the mac vs win debate (as if it was ever closed).
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iPods in Redmond
Monday, February 7, 2005
Wired published an article about employees with iPods at Microsoft's campus. Some are having to start sneaking around with them by not using the easy-to-identify white earbuds.
Altoid iPod Speakers
Friday, February 4, 2005
In a competition to create the best iPod accessory out of an Altoids can, a set of speakers won. See the winner and learn to make it yourself at Readymademag.com
Don't Click on the Blue E!
Friday, February 4, 2005
O'Reilly is publishing a new book called Don't Click on the Blue E! in March to help frustrated WinIE users make the switch to Firefox.
Extensions
Friday, February 4, 2005
Firefox extensions are fun and their getting better. PC Magazine reviews the "top 15".
Browser Alternatives
Friday, February 4, 2005
Extreme tech has posted a new article detailing the current available browsing alternatives to WinIE.
I'm missing one?
Friday, February 4, 2005
Digital-web magazine has published a story called The Four Best Web Design Books You May Have Missed. Included are Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think, Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing With Web Standards, June Cohen's Unusually Useful Web Book, and a book I don't have by Eric T. Peterson titled Web Analytics Demystified. With our web statistics software recently upgraded at work, I am particularly interested in this topic right now. Looks like I'll be visiting Amazon soon.
Search Wars?
Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Microsoft has released their new search engine: an updated MSN search. The search, which is supposed to be faster than Google, has in my opinion a terrible interface once you get past the search screen and according to some who have used it, poor search results. Of the newer generation of search engines that are competing with Google, the one that intrigues me most is Amazon's A9. Still, with all of these new options available, I still have found no reason to stop using Google.
Skype 1.0
Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Skype has released version 1.0 for the macintosh (along with version 1.0 for Linux and Pocket PC, and version 1.1 for Windows).
Panther, Tiger, Panther, Tiger, Panther
Monday, January 31, 2005
I am once again back to Panther (Mac OS 10.3) on my home computer after, what was a pretty successful couple of weeks using Tiger (Mac OS 10.4), I allowed it to upgrade and it broke Audio Hijack Pro. Having the choice of staying with Tiger or having AHP, I reverted back to Panther.
Pictures from the 2005 Midlands International Auto Show
Sunday, January 30, 2005
Here's pictures from last weekend's auto show in Omaha at the Qwest Center. I don't know enough about cars to take intelligent photographs of them, so my wife's brother Aaron snapped the camera. Lots of great rides... take a look.
Contribute Feature Request
Friday, January 28, 2005
The one thing that I really really want in Contribute is the ability to have user-created reusable items. So many things have gotten so much better in the product since version one, but management of a site's navigation is still restricted (as far as I can tell) to editing a single page and then copying and pasting those changes to the other pages of the site. This may be fine for a small site and perhaps there are some extracontribute based ideas that can make this easier, but I really think that this needs to be something that is in the program.
Firefox Engineer Goes to Google
Friday, January 28, 2005
Ben Goodger, one of the primary people responsible for Firefox has been hired by Google. What does this mean? His blog indicates that while this may delay the release of Firefox 1.1, it does not mean that he is off the project. I would like to think that this in fact means that a google browser is in the works and will be built on top of Firefox. So what?
PodCasting
Friday, January 28, 2005
Lately I've been enjoying a couple of "podcasts". PodCasts are audio web log postings. The thing that is starting to make these fun is that news aggregators, like NetNewsWire, are starting to be able to automatically take the postings and put them into iTunes ready for your next iPod sync. Interested? For one of the genres best, check out Adam Curry's Daily Source Code, then find others at ipodder.org.
Lost it again
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
I lost my website again. I backed up my server, installed Tiger and then found that my backup was bad. I'm starting over for what is now the fourth or fifth time in as many years. I've got to get better at this.
What?!
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
"Firefox should look to see if a page is optimized for IE and abide by Microsoft?s nonstandard formatting and render the pages as their authors intended." Holy crap. This is insane. So WinIE is the standard? Considering that ActiveX controls will never work on any platform but windows it's stupid to think that a browser that is trying to be "standard" should support them. If it were to support them, we would immediately have to start talking about Win-Firefox versus Non-Win-Firefox.