More Evidence of X.5's Windows Support
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Gearlog : Mac Os X 10.5 Likely To Have Virtualization, Windows Support
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Flockin' Awesome!
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Flock keeps getting better and better. Besides already having one of the best browser interfaces, the latest builds of Flock have added a choice when ‘starring’ a site of sharing with everyone (via the social bookmarker of your selection) or only between your computers. In addition, in just creating this post, I see that they are starting to do some heavy refacing of the blogging window. If you aren’t on Flock, you’re missing out!
New Video Player
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
A new video player that looks like a good competitor for the iPod should be here next month.
Fair Use
Monday, February 20, 2006
The RIAA said that ripping CD’s on to digital media devices was fair use. Now it seems they are changing their minds.
Great desktop pictures
Monday, February 20, 2006
Mandolux has awesome desktop pictures. Great images of beer and baseball. What else do you need?
Another Player Bites the Dust
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
The sony bean player has been discontinued after only having been out for six months. I don't know if it just wasn't selling or if it's about to be replaced with something better. I really thought that the bean was a great looking player (it'd be better if sony wasn't locked on to their stupid music format). Many are going to point to this as another product that the iPod has killed (and I'm sure that's a factor) but Sony has long had a reputation for just throwing anything they can dream up out there and seeing what sells.
TypeTester
Thursday, February 9, 2006
Here’s a tool called TypeTester that allows you to specify a font and the CSS properties of it to quickly try some looks out before you incorporate it into your style sheets.
Color Scheme Generator
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
I’ve seen quite a few color schemers, but I think this is the best web-based one that I’ve seen so far.
A Peek in to Firefox 2
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Based on the meeting notes posted from yesterday’s Firefox team meeting, we can see what will be in the first alpha of Firefox 2 (release postponed two weeks to near end of February) and future versions of it. Here’s some of the things I’m looking forward to: Close buttons on each tab (like safari and camino) Providing a method of tag-overflow rather than having a huge number of unlabeled tabs Visual refresh is planned but they are looking to do this via a contest Inline spell check Ability to save your session so that all of your pages/tabs come right back to the way they were before you quit Firefox Better RSS integration with a possible RSS previewer.
Inside Firefox - The Inside Track on Firefox Development
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Ben Goodger (Firefox lead engineer) offers his perspective on the history of Firefox.
CSS Columned Page Maker
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Here’s a page that will create a CSS layout for you. It is a bit more intimidating to look at than some of the others that are out there, but it has a LOT of options and would probably produce code that needs much less customization once you have it.
Fireworks Lives!
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Word from Adobe is that Fireworks is an important piece of their web development product suite moving forward and that it will continue to be developed. WooHoo!!
Opera 9 Tech Preview 2 Available
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Opera Labs has a new technology preview available for Opera 9. If you haven’t used Opera before, you should really give it a shot. I think it’s a little too slow to use for day-to-day browsing (at least on my powerbook) but it has a lot of features that make it worth keeping in your web development toolbox.
Browser Roundup
Monday, February 6, 2006
I tend to post a lot about browsers, so I have created a page that lists many of the browsers that are available for those that wish to try out a few. With the exception of Internet Explorer (Win) and those that are cross-platform like Firefox, they are Macintosh browsers. As I have time to try and assess some Windows-only browsers I will add them to the list.
Dell Discontinues DJ MP3 Player
Monday, February 6, 2006
Dell has discontinued their DJ MP3 Player. I’m not happy to see iPod competitors go, but this was just another case of a hardware vendor quickly throwing together me-too product that added nothing new to the space. Create something great and people will buy it. iRiver and Creative aren’t selling the numbers of players that Apple is, but I get the impression that they are doing pretty well. They make very nice players with unique features.
Growth of the Blogosphere
Monday, February 6, 2006
Technorati has released some statistics regarding the Blogs that they track. The most interesting to me is that 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after they have created their blog. That’s just a little better than half. That’s pretty good in my experience. Here’s a summary of the rest of the stats. Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day 13.
Playing Catch-Up
Saturday, February 4, 2006
Since I haven’t been able to post for the last month-plus, here are some things I’ve wanted to get up here. Regarding Browsers The public alpha of Firefox 2.0 (codename: bon echo) is scheduled to be released on Feb 10. What's in store? While I'm sure that they will always continue to work on improving the rendering, the focus of bon echo is the experience. Two things expected in the new version are a improved interface with more operating system ties and inline spell checking.
I'm Back!
Saturday, February 4, 2006
Well, I’ve been here, but my blog has not. An OS X update nuked my blog and I haven’t had the time or will to try to fix it. The problem? A config issue in my php.ini file. Why didn’t I think of that?! Ha. Just for my own future reference (because I know I will have to do this again), I had to add /tmp/mysql.sock to the mysql.default_socket parameter.
Happy New Year
Sunday, January 1, 2006
2005 is over and 2006 is here. I haven’t posted for a while and I have a decent excuse. My wife Amanda and I had our first child on December 15. His name is Liam and he is doing very well and we have all enjoyed our time together these past couple of weeks. I’m starting back to work on Tuesday while Amanda has the rest of the month off. Babies have a way of attracting lots of family and friends and it’s been real nice seeing everybody.
Links
Saturday, December 3, 2005
Nuvvo Learning Management System A hosted, AJAX-based learning management system that offers free accounts.
Macromedia Merges with Adobe Tomorrow!
Friday, December 2, 2005
Adobe is expected to announce tomorrow the completed acquisition of Macromedia.
Links
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Official Delicious Plug-In for Firefox Official Delicious Plug-In for Firefox A well-presented list of open source projects for the macintosh. A well-presented list of open source projects for the macintosh. The list is broken into two sections. The first section contains the most popular applications divided by type. The second section lists many more, less popular applications. The quality of
Firefox 1.5 Today?
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Word on the net is that Firefox 1.5 final will be released today.
Links
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Blind Access Journal The Blind Access Journal is a blog centered around the goal of making the web and the content delivered over it accessibile to everyone. InterLinc: City of Lincoln: 5 CITY-TV Program guide for Lincoln's Educational Channel 21 Steadman A fantastic british band that provides free downloads to their music
Google is Doing a Nu Thang
Friday, November 18, 2005
Google has a few new things out. First, in my right column, you see a link to download Firefox with the Google Toolbar. Clicking on this link AND installing the software earns me a dollar. Yep! Google is paying a buck to those that get people to switch to Firefox. Want to earn money? Sign up. How do you sign up? That's the second thing. You can click on the image right under the Firefox image to sign up for Google AdSense.
Potter
Friday, November 18, 2005
Today was my birthday and my wife got us tickets to see harry potter tonight. We thought that the line would be sick, so got there early and we were almost the first ones -- felt kinda dorky (but got great seats!!). Line was much worse for the movie after ours -- it reminded me of the star wars opening weekend. Anyway. If you like potter, see it. It's good. It's dark, but I think they toned parts of it down.
Blogging Getting Bad Rap
Thursday, November 17, 2005
After last Sunday's incident in Pennsylvania, where both students were found to have "blogs"?which didn't seem to forecast anything about what happened?schools and parents seem to be giving blogs much more attention. I hope that this provides opportunity for parents, teachers, administrators and anybody working with youth to start visiting these sites and to become familiar with them. It is futile to try blocking these sites for the purposes of keeping children away from them (I'm all for blocking when it comes to instructional management -- keeping students on task).
Teen Blogging
Thursday, November 10, 2005
I was talking with my friend Dan this morning and he’s giving a presentation tonight regarding Internet Safety based on the government’s iSafe program. He asked what I thought about sites like Xanga and MySpace. The real questions seem to be, “should these sites be blocked by schools and parents” and “should students be allowed to use these?”. The broader question that gets asked is “are blogs bad?" First of all, blogs are not bad.
Microsoft Launches "Live"
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Microsoft, yesterday, announced a new Web 2.0ish portal that they call live. It seems to be Microsoft's attempt to say, "Hey. We can do this stuff too." You can get a local weather forecast and aggregate numerous news feeds -- all in an interface that does not fully support Firefox yet. (Microsoft is probably still looking for some slimy way to hook Firefox into the OS since they can't seem to do anything without leveraging Windows in some way.
Firefox 1.5 RC 1 Released
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. This is the first release candidate of mozilla's next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to their developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback. Mozilla Firefox Project (Development Information)