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!
New Yahoo! Site Doesn't Support Safari [UPDATED] || The Mac Observer
I'm know that they will have this all fixed before they go live, but while it doesn't surprise me that they don't support Safari, it still surprises me that they do not support Flock. If you use Flock, you sometimes get the feeling that the product is bankrolled by Yahoo!.
Making ColdFusion MX on Mac OS X use JVM 1.4.2 instead of JVM 1.5.0 - TalkingTree.com
I didn’t realize that ColdFusion didn’t run on Java 5. I’m sure that I’ve read this before, but I had forgotten. Anyway, this page details how to tell CF to use 1.4.2 even if the default java for your OS X computer is 1.5
technorati tags: java, mac, osx, coldfusion
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
Scott Fegette: Podcast 02 - Jorge Taylor on the Spry Framework
I havent' had a chance to listen to this yet, but plan to sometime today. It’s a podcast of an interview with someone involved with the Ajax Spry Framework at Adobe. A way to create AJAX functionality in Dreamweaver?
Digital Web Magazine - News - Comet, the complement of AJAX
AJAX allows a browser to, at any time, communicate with the server and deliver the results of that communication to the browser without the need for a page refresh. COMET promises the same use of existing technologies to allow the server to push information to the browser without the need for a browser request. The ability for web pages to both send and receive data, initiated by either the server or the client, without a browser refresh will really transform the deliverable experience.
Flash to jump beyond the browser | CNET News.com
Adobe must be getting closer to letting this out. Kevin Lynch talked a little bit about “Apollo” at the MAX conference in October, but I don’t think that he demonstrated anything. I sure hope that this turns out better than Central. Nobody will use these apps if they are sluggish.
The Dreamweaver Developer Center is a resourcet that I tell people about a lot, but always forget to continue checking myself. This morning I found there some great articles and tutorials on form styling with CSS, formating XML with XSL, and using a framework called SPRY to add interactive AJAX elements to web pages. I wish that there was an obvious news feed so that I could subscribe to this page…
Eric Meyer is a giant in the CSS world and this is a great interview with him about how he got into CSS and the business of web development.
Firefox 1.5 CCK (Client Customization Kit)
technorati tags: firefox
O’Reilly Radar > Come Out and Play: As a former camp staffer, this sounds like a blast!
As long as I’ve been posting Flex info Here’s information about installing the Flex SDKs on a mac.
This is a couple of days old but the major soda makers have agreed to replace the fully-loaded pop that they sell in schools nation-wide with water, juice and sport drinks.
technorati tags: soda
Adobe has released an update for Dreamweaver 8. The 8.0.2 updater is available for macintosh and windows and improves code generated by Dreamweaver for server behaviors and for active content such as Flash.
technorati tags: adobe, dreamweaver
Beta 3 of Adobe’s Flex version 2 is available on the Adobe Labs site. Flex is a development environment that allows rich internet applications to be built via XML or Adobe’s FlexBuilder application to be delivered via Flash. Steep learning curve, but incredible results.
technorati tags: flex
You have got to see Norelco’s new web site advertising their new BodyGroom shaver. It’s hilarious (and made with Adobe Flash!).
While Adobe and Macromedia merged around six months ago now, they have continued to maintain separate web sites that served their unique audiences. Until now. At some point in the past day or so, the macromedia.com domain was finally redirected to the new adobe.com website (which looks a whole lot like the old macromedia site). The macromedia name will probably hang around as long as the current versions of macromedia applications are current. As they are upgraded, the name will eventually disappear altogether. sniff
Have you used SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys? It’s a fantastic text-editing program that allows you to collaborate with others on the same document at the same time. If you need to do real-time collaboration on a document, it’s the best thing I have ever seen. If you don’t, it is still a fantastic editor that recognizes many code languages.
Why am I telling you this now? Because for today only, it is the the feature software in BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZot.com. BlogZot takes a piece of software and offers it for a great price, but then it gets better. Every time a person blogs about the deal and tells MacZot about it, the price drops by five cents. A person can purchase at the going rate any time, or wait until the software becomes free. Today, the Coding Monkeys, that make SubEthaEdit, has offered to give away up to 3,000 copies. That figures out to about $105,000 in free software given away by MacZot and theCodingMonkeys!
SO, if you have a blog, start blogging. Otherwise, keep an eye on MacZot and get your cheap or free software later today.
Design View : Andy Rutledge - White House Redux. The jewel here isn’t the design itself but his descripton of the process. It’s an excellent evaluation of audience, message, color and design.
As a Mac user, I’ve always been a little jealous of Windows users that can run just about anything full screen. I have especially coveted full-screen browsing. Sure, you can maximize a window the full width and height available, but you still have the always-present menu bar sitting there, and the application title bar (even if you choose to hide the status bar, navigation and address bars).
My envy just jumped a notch when I saw that the new beta of Internet Explorer 7, when put into full screen mode, hides EVERYTHING that isn’t a part of the page (windows media player-like). The navigation bar comes into view if you move your mouse to the top of the screen, but other than that your screen is 100% web page. I love it.
There’s my “say something nice” about Internet Explorer.
Does Asparagus make your urine stink? Ever wonder why? ;-)
J. J. Abrams (Creator of Alias and Lost, Director of Mission Impossible III) will be producing a new Star Trek movie. No cast or story has been announced, so it’s not clear which series/timeframe this will be targeting although the fact that he mentions that he wants to return Star Trek to its former glory indicates to me that it would focus on the original series. With that crew now old or dead, a movie based on the original series would almost have to recast the crew. Could a fresh crew and good movie be enough to launch a new series?
Firefox went universal binary with the 1.5.0.2 release and now Flock, in their continuous updates has started offering universals. I had drifted towards Firefox since it was working so much faster than Flock, but now I can return to what has become my favorite browser! WooHoo.
Here's stuff we looked at during <cfgeek> on Wednesday morning