Firefox Commercials
Monday, May 16, 2005
Here's some commercials for Firefox that a french advertising firm put together. Part of goal was to create commercials usable interntaionally -- thus the lack of dialog in any of them.
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Some advice on logo design for non-designers
Monday, May 16, 2005
FrogBlog offers the best tip for logo design
Just Three Things: Week of May 8th
Friday, May 13, 2005
h2. One: AJAX Stands for “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML” PanicGoods Google Maps “GTDTiddlyWiki”:shared.snapgrid.com/gtd_tiddl…" (based on “TiddlyWiki”:tiddlywiki.com) h2. Two: Color Sites “ColourLovers”:colourlovers.com “Color Schemer Online”:www.colorschemer.com/online.ht… “Color Scheme Generator”:wellstyled.com/tools/col… “ColorCombos”:www.colorcombos.com “I Like Your Colors”:www.redalt.com/Tools/ily… “ColorMatch 5K”:www.colormatch.dk “Adam Polselli”:www.adampolselli.com (I can’t find the site that I mentioned that allows you to upload a photo and get a scheme from it) h2. Three: Micro-Content Driven Web “j3t05082005.mp3”:www.brianfitz.net/j3t050820…
Put your iPhoto galleries online
Friday, May 13, 2005
If you want to be able to export iPhoto galleries as beautiful customizable pages, check out the free and just updated Galerie 5.1beta.
Aggregating relevant news in Web 2.0
Friday, May 13, 2005
I was reading through my aggregator this morning and came across some postings that didn't really have anything to do with things that I subscribe to. This didn't bother me as I find some of the most interesting things through these types of posts, but I did wonder where they came from. I looked at the source and it was the Macromedia aggregator. This particular news feed is one of those I am aggregating from a source that is already an aggregation.
Interested in learning javascript?
Friday, May 13, 2005
Here's a section I just came across called "The JavaScript Diaries" at webreference.com that looks like it would be a good way to get started.
Firefox engineer comments on Apple/KHTML
Friday, May 13, 2005
Firefox engineer comments on Apple/KHTML: Lead Firefox engineer Ben Goodger has spoken out in defense of Apple over the company's suggestion that the existing KHTML rendering engine be replaced by its own-developed derivative rendering engine (WebCore) for Safari, reports Macworld UK... This story interested me because my first reaction when I saw that Apple would like to drop KHTML and go forward with webcore as a independent web renderer was a negative one.
I hate to keep referring to the same blog over and over but...
Friday, May 13, 2005
If you care about education and the internet and how it's being used in schools with students, you really need to be reading Will's continuing discussion about blogging vs journaling...
History of the GUI
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Arstechnica has published an interesting history of the GUI.
iBooks required
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Macworld: U of Maine to require iBooks for teachers-to-be: The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development has announced plans to require students working towards Maine teacher certification to have Apple iBooks. The program dovetails with the state of Maine?s own Learning Technology Initiative, where all students and teachers in seventh and eighth grades in Maine public schools also have iBooks.
Great Breezo Presentation by Tim Buntel and Simon Horwith
Thursday, May 12, 2005
From jeffcoughlin.com: Simon gave a great overview of his presentation on "Design Patterns and CFML" and Tim spoke quickly about his favorite new features introduced in Coldfusion MX 7. Simon's full presentation can be seen at the upcoming CFUNITED conference next month. To view today's recorded Breezo go to http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/p14693917/.
A student chastising student "journalers"
Thursday, May 12, 2005
In the ongoing blogging vs journaling debate, a student chimes in with good words
Flex examples
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Flex is Macromedia's solution (expensive solution) to allow normal object-minded programmers to create flash applications (RIAs). For examples of Flex applications, see Flex Authority.
Typography for the web
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Want to use great looking type on the web? Try the newly released sIFR 2.0 (a combination of javascript, CSS and Flash).
Firefox updated
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Firefox has been updated to 1.0.4 in response to security concerns that have appeared this past week.
[insert word here]cast
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Apparently you just need to add the word "cast" to anything now to make it hip and cool. Audio blogging became "podcast". Now the long-possible (and used) method of recording screen actions along with voice-over is being referred to as "screencasting". I'm not sure that I like this term. Podcasting (maybe I've just become used to the term) describes a process where something is being broadcast over the web (sort of) and being stored on iPod-like devices to be listened to.
Standard ID3 tags for podcasts
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
This is really needed. Dons Blog has posted some good guidelines for tagging podcast files.
IE 7 Screenshot?
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Is this a screenshot of IE 7? It has a tab that look thoroughly ugly. Very simple interface similar to MSN Explorer (that I don't think is still distributed -- but I actually liked).
Apple Granted Patent for Tablet Mac
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
The Mac Observer - Apple Granted Patent for Tablet Mac (w/Illustrations)
Yet another color palette site
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
COLOURlovers
Freakin' Cool Site of the Day
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
PanicGoods is where you can by clothing from the software company Panic (makers of the Macintosh FTP program Transmit). You can purchase things on this page by simply dragging items into the dock-like area at the bottom of the page and when things are dragged out of it they disappear with a OSX-like poof. Too cool.
More Xanga-itis
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Will Richardson posts more concerns re kids using "blogs" to post far too much personal information online.
iTunes 4.8 out
Monday, May 9, 2005
iTunes 4.8 has been released. Reports indicate that the new feature is the ability to synchronize contacts and dates with iPods (which has been available) -- what isn't getting much attention is the fact that you can now drag quicktime movies into the player and watch them in quicktime.
New Macromedia News Aggregator
Monday, May 9, 2005
Macromedia has updated their MXNA aggregator to version 2.0. Best of all, it has an RSS feed now so that you can subscribe.
Want to blog from your phone?
Monday, May 9, 2005
Blogger.com has made available a new service that allows you to blog from your cell phone.
httpmail plugin 1.44 - MacUpdate
Monday, May 9, 2005
I've been asked many times in the past couple of months if there is any way to check Hotmail with OS X's mail.app. I just saw this morning that the mail plugin that does it has been updated. Update: This latest version is for Mail 2.0 (Tiger) only. A friend fried his panther mail.app installing this.
Don't Use Two Dollar Bills at Best Buy
Sunday, May 8, 2005
This morning's Foxtrot cartoon made mention of a Best Buy in Maryland that arrested a person on suspicion of using counterfeit money for paying a $114 bill with two dollar bills. I googled it wondering if the story was true and sure enough, a month ago this did happen.
Just Three Things - Week of May 1, 2005
Sunday, May 8, 2005
Here's my new attempt at pod casting or audio blogging (whichever you prefer). I hope to get better at this and learned a lot from putting this one together. Just Three Things is a short wrapup of three stories that emerged in the past week that are worth exploring further.
Broadcast Flag Killed!
Saturday, May 7, 2005
Common sense prevails. A federal appeals court has shot down the idea of a “broadcast flag” that would limit the way in which tv programs could be recorded and stored. You can read more at Wired >
'Net-illiterate' parents seen failing children
Saturday, May 7, 2005
MSNBC: “Parents who are unable to help their children use the Internet properly could be stifling their education and reducing their job prospects, researchers said on Thursday.”