Podcasting on CBS News
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
CBS has posted a story about podcasting featuring Adam Curry.
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The Ideal Web Team
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Andy Budd considers the makeup of a perfect web team
The Institute for Backup Trauma
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
LiveVault has an entertaining site advertising their solutions featuring John Cleese.
Macromedia Acquisition Translated
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Daring Fireball has translated Adobe's FAQ regarding the acquisition of Macromedia from PR-Speak to English.
Secrets of Mac Superheroes
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Want to use Safari Smarter? Macworld posted this article detailing some of Safari's most-helpful/least-known features.
Wow wow wow (in a numb sort of way)
Monday, April 18, 2005
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.
Blog Reports
Thursday, April 14, 2005
eWeek is running a special report on Weblogs
RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Will Richardson has posted a RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators
About:Config
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Linux Journal has published an article about Mozilla's about:config settings
News: Microsoft to show off new Xbox on May 12
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
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.
Google maps from the ground
Monday, April 11, 2005
What does it look like on the ground when someone does a google map search?
Flash authors ponder Google pitfalls
Monday, April 11, 2005
CNET reports an interesting discussion that happened at the FlashForward conference concerning how Google does not index flash-based sites and possible solutions.
Macromedia MAX 2005
Monday, April 11, 2005
Macromedia has announced the dates and location for thier 2005 conference. Some co-workers and I went to the 2004 conference in New Orleans and loved it. It has many sessions covering nearly all of their products along with great general sessions.
Installing ColdFusion MX 7 on Mac OS X
Friday, April 8, 2005
I've played with installing ColdFusion on OS X a few times with mixed results - never to my liking. I finally found some excellent articles that got me going exactly as I would like. Both of these are at Community MX. Running ColdFusion on TomCat: This article, which is sold for $3.00 walks you through the process of installing ColdFusion MX 7 on top of Tomcat?an open source J2EE server.
What is Lorem Ipsum?
Friday, April 8, 2005
I get asked about Lorem Ipsum a lot. Here are a couple of pages about it. Lorem Ipsum - All the facts The Straight Dope
Tiger getting closer
Friday, March 25, 2005
Café Macs reports that the seed notes for the latest pre-release of Tiger include only one known issue.
[fill in the blank] management systems
Friday, March 25, 2005
I've been messing around with Macromedia captivate to see if it works as a good solution for putting some content online. One file that I need to post requires that a persons viewing of it be recorded (name, email, etc.). Captivate says that it can do this via email, but it does it in a way that just won't work for me. Captivate is also able to tie into "
Transmit FTP Client Updated
Monday, February 21, 2005
Panic has upgraded their FTP client Transmit to version 3. Actually, I'm late on this as they did this about a week ago now, and there is already a 3.01 out. 3 introduces some great improvements over version 2 including the ability to: navigate servers in column view connect to WebDAV servers (including iDisk) use a tabbed interface to manage multiple servers in a single window have a sidebar-like interface to maintain different "
Fight over 'forms' clouds future of Net applications
Friday, February 18, 2005
A ZDNet story about the brewing fight over internet forms which may lead to a battle of standards that make us reminisce about the simple days when it was Microsoft vs everybody else. There's at least three different camps ready to start promoting their own "standards" including Macromedia's new Flash forms that are a part of CF 7. This could be ugly.
Fireworks (a great unknown app)
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
When it comes to Macromedia applications, Dreamweaver and Flash are the well-knowns with ColdFusion gaining in popularity. Much less talked about is their great image-editing program Fireworks. It surprises me how many people do most of their web image editing in big programs like Photoshop. Photoshop is a great tool and the best tool for doing many things, but I think it's often not the most effective tool for creating quick and simple graphics.
Great design
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Here's one of the sharpest personal sites I've seen for a while. Very nice.
A Rant (Mostly) About Web Content
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
This is the MOST overlooked element, in my opinion, when it comes to creating a web site. People want to focus on the visual part of it but spend relatively little time on the most important part of the site -- the content. Asterisk discusses this...
Apple Spoofs
Thursday, February 10, 2005
P-P-P-PowerBook and the Billy Graham Special Edition iPod
Podcasting in USA Today.
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Two articles: One from yesterday and one from today.
Firefox, Safari, others struck by spoofing flaw
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
From MacWorld: A dangerous spoofing security hole has been found in almost every browser on the market -- except one. Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, OmniWeb, Opera and Netscape all suffer from the "moderately critical" vulnerability that allows the spoofing of address bar URLs and SSL certificates, but, incredibly Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer gets a clean bill of health.
Microsoft vs Google
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
I just saw a commercial on the TV for the new MSN Search. The commercial was cooler than the search is. In some ways, the new Microsoft vs Google battle reminds me of the longtime Microsoft vs Apple contest. Today's release of Google Maps elicits a response that is not uncommon for Google "applications". They are incredible. They obviously have very smart people there creating applications that actually make the web better.
Coolest online maps!
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Google, in their labs area, has released Google Maps. These maps are incredible.
Podcasting on CNN
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
CNN is not podcasting, but has an article about it.
Quote of the day
Monday, February 7, 2005
The Red Sox' Curt Schilling in response to the Patriots super bowl victory last night: "They're the Yankees of the NFL, but without being greedy bastards."
ColdFusion 7 is out!! WooHoo!!
Monday, February 7, 2005
Macromedia's ColdFusion 7 is out! It bring flash-based forms and display tables, printable reports (flashpaper) and many performance enhancements. I can't wait to start using it! Learn more at http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/