Autocross video
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Went to our county ‘event center’ today and watched my brother-in-law Aaron race in an autocross with his new Nissan. I taped it and threw it up on Google video…
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Todos
Thursday, July 27, 2006
I’m not sure what the meaning of the name “Todos” is, “but this is the application launcher”:dbachrach.com/opensoft/… that I have been waiting for . I have wanted something that would give me quick and visual access to all of my applications quickly and this does it wonderfully. (screenshot_of_todos)!
TextMate Does Blogging
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
I was looking through some of the video blogs that my computer had pulled down lately and found a bit about being able to post to blogs from TextMate. I had to try it out! (blog_from_textmate)!
Yay Break!
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
It’s been pretty quiet here for a couple of weeks. I spent last week on vacation visiting my brother and his family in Saco, ME. We had a fantastic time up there. Amanda, My sister-in-law Courtney and I went Kayaking at LL Bean (It’s only $12). We saw fourth-of-july fireworks in Kennebunkport. We had lobster, went to the beach and saw Portland Headlight. My brother also took us to a place called the Great Lost Bear that had a great menu and almost 60 beers on tap.
Building Scalable Websites book (from creator of Flickr)
Monday, May 22, 2006
This comprehensive guide covers the design of software and hardware systems for web applications. Using scores of examples and leading-edge tips, it details proven methods for scaling web applications to millions of users. Topics include application architecture, development practices, technologies, Unicode, and general infrastructure work. Ideal for anyone ready to realize the cost and performance benefits available to web applications today. oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Building Scalable Web Sites
Engaged or Engraged
Monday, May 22, 2006
Weblogg-ed » Engaging Teachers Will Richardson considers a Mark Presky talk discussing how students are either enraged or engaged by teachers. Will asks how we get teachers engaged if we want students to be engaged. A teacher kicks off the comments by saying that they are enraged by the lack of support that they get – setting them up to enrage students.
SandVox Web Publishing Tool Available (From Creator of Watson)
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Karelia announced the immediate availability of Sandovox and Sandovox Pro 1.0, a graphic-based Web site development application, on Wednesday. Sandovox includes support for blog, podcast, and online photo album publication, RSS feed generation, uploading sites via FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and .Mac, as well as support for add-on modules to enhance the application's functionality. Pro users can also supports the creation of raw HTML code so that advanced users can add their own code and server-side scripting elements.
PDF Publishing
Thursday, May 18, 2006
O’Reilly Radar > Gentlemen Prefer PDFs I’ve been very interested lately in the PDF publications that have been available on the web. One of the most recent documents that I have bought is Getting Real by 37 Signals. The book sells for $19 which is a bargain considering what books go for at the book store. I get a good price while the authors get all of the revenue. Everyone wins (except the non-existent publisher).
Photos of New Apple Store
Thursday, May 18, 2006
The Cube Unpeeled technorati tags: apple, store
Matrix: Blog Uses in Education
Thursday, May 18, 2006
EdTechPost: Matrix of some uses of blogs in education technorati tags: blogging
Turn Your Pictures Into PDFs
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Scan, copy and fax with your camera phone or digital camera ScanR can take mobile-phone (or other) photos and turn them into text-searchable PDFs. Have a whiteboard that you want to save? Snap a photo, email it to them and receive back a PDF. I’ll try this out and report back! technorati tags: ScanR, PDF
Digg It
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Small Biz 101: Digg is Your Marketing Secret Weapon - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) The way to get noticed on the web today is to get listed on Digg. If you can get enough people to “digg” your page, your status on the site will rise to a level that will bring unbelievable traffic to your site. technorati tags: digg
How Apple's Store Strategy Beat the Odds
Thursday, May 18, 2006
WSJ.com - How Apple’s Store Strategy Beat the Odds technorati tags: apple, store
RIAA Upset by New XM Inno Player
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Labels sue XM over music-storing ‘mothership’ | CNET News.com I've been looking for one of these for a bit. I didn't realize that they were already out. The fact that XM is being sued over them just makes me want one more. Anything to stick it to the RIAA. This player adds something to XM that is very necessary. I wish that media companies would find a way to get past the idea of streaming media and start creating more solutions like this that allow the customer to pick and choose the content that they are interested, to then listen to at their convenience.
Glossy? Awesome or Evil?
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Photos: Out of the box: Apple's new Intel-based MacBook | CNET News.com These pictures show the glossiness of the new MacBook screens. I'm always stunned by the way these glossy screens look in stores, but wonder about the glare. You can see a lot of reflection in the screen in these photos. MacBook Pros can now be ordered with this optional glossy display. technorati tags: macbook, glossy
Google Calendar - Reviewed
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Vitamin Reviews » Google Calendar technorati tags: google, calendar
Pretty Search - Snap.com
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Snap is a new (I think) search engine that features a great look and page previews. I think it’s nice to look at, but frustrating to use. technorati tags: snap, search
New Yahoo! Front Page
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Yahoo! has posted a preview of their new home page and it’s looking good. I’ve been frustrated for a long time that there are so many do-it-all pages like Yahoo!, Google, Lycos and even newer options like pageflakes and netvibes and yet for the most part they are not pretty to look at. This new version of Yahoo! is one of the first that I have seen that makes good use of screen real-estate, is very customizable and is actually something that I would consider making my home page.
User-Agent Extension for Firefox / Flock
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
The User Agent Switcher Extension is useful to those that use browsers such as Flock that are often looked-over by sites that do browser filtering to ensure that those that visit the site have the browser necessary to properly do so. Adding this extension to Flock allows it to tell the server that it is Firefox (which it really is) and thus to access the site. technorati tags: flock, user-agent, extension
We don't want to take the time to learn to manage it, so let's block it
Friday, May 12, 2006
Congress targets social network sites | CNET News.com A bill will propose that social networking sites like MySpace be blocked. I'm all for the rights of schools to block access to anything that they feel detracts from the mission of education, but anything handed down by congress is likely to just be a distraction in itself. How broad would this be? Many of these sites are offer some of the best content on the web today.
IE Developer Responds to Vitamin Article
Friday, May 12, 2006
Chris Wilson, Group Program Manager of the Internet Explorer Platform team at Microsoft, fires both barrels at those that would say that IE doesn’t care about standards and that the standards community has started to bow to Microsoft. technorati tags: ie, msie, microsoft, standards, vitamin
Don't Forget the Premium Plan
Friday, May 12, 2006
A post on 37signals reminds web application creators to not forget to not only charge what a service is worth, but to offer a premium service for more money. It is amazing, according to the article, the number of people that are generally willing to fork out the dough for a service that is worth it. technorati tags: 37signals
Will People PLEASE Stop Writing About Rocketboom?
Friday, May 12, 2006
I am tired of hearing about Rocketboom. Rocketboom is a terrible video blog. It's host, Amanda, is annoying. It is not well produced. It says nothing about nothing. It's a waste of bandwidth -- and yet everyone seems to want to hold it up as the best example of video blogging. WHY?! Personally, as a person that wants to see more people catch on to video blogs, it's an embarrasment. But it seems like every time that I open NetNewsWire, turn on my TiVo or even listen to the radio (Amanda was on NPR yesterday), Rocketboom is there.
Halo 3 Trailer
Friday, May 12, 2006
Only one more game-related post this morning -- promise. I just discovered what a sucker I am. I was so with the previously referenced article that the game play is what matters and that these console makers, while exploring the current limits of gaming graphics, are not creating great games. Down with beautifully rendered 3D worlds! Up with fun! ...Until I saw the trailer that Bungie showed at E3 for Halo 3.
Nintendo Wii to be around $250...
Friday, May 12, 2006
WeBreakStuff » What we can learn from gaming consoles WeBreakStuff takes a look at the way that the console makers demonstrated their wares, praising Nintendo for focusing on the game instead of improved graphics. The article takes lessons from this and briefly applies them to site building. technorati tags: Wii, Nintendo
Too Cheap?
Friday, May 12, 2006
Kutaragi on PlayStation3: it’s too cheap At $600, Sony Computer Entertainment cheif Ken Kutaragi has said that the PlayStation 3 is too cheap. Perhaps, in the effort to put together a console that would be technically superior to anything else available, they have priced themselves out of the game. It is only $100 more than an XBox 360, but by time the PS3 comes out in November, Microsoft may drop the price of the 360 as console makers do after a box has been out for a year.
CSS3 Columns
Thursday, May 4, 2006
I can't wait for the column specification in CSS3 to become a standard in browsers. In the meantime, Firefox 1.5+ (and of course Flock), support parts of the column spec through their own stylesheet selectors. Here's an example of it in use Here's information about using it in Firefox
How to build a form that is not annoying
Thursday, May 4, 2006
Pete Freitag is in the middle of a series of posts he calls “How to build a form that isn’t annoying”. There isn’t a lot of useful information here, but good things to think about. Steve Krug said “Don’t Make Me Think." Pete here, seems to be saying, “Don’t make me work.” There are a lot of things that we do with forms (pull down menus for example) that could be much easier for a person to fill out if it were presented in a different way.
Mac FTP: A Guided Tour
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
MacDevCenter.com evaluates a few FTP clients for Macintosh.
Let your computer type it for you
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
If you have words, phrases or code that you find yourself typing over and over, you should take a look at Textpander. I downloaded it this morning and I think that it’s going to be very useful. You can feed it long amounts of text (great for chunks of HTML code) and assign abbreviations to them. For example, I assigned the basic code of a HTML page to “<html” and the opening and closing of a P tag to “<p”.