Colors on the Web - Color Theory for web designers - color combination, color wheel, color schemes Another good-looking web color and color theory site (tags: colors) $398 Compaq Laptop at Wal-Mart I'm sure that this is a quality piece of uhh... laptop (tags: laptop walmart crap)
I mentioned the term geocaching in my last post. Geocaching is a sort of scavenger hunt, or hide-and-seek game where someone hides a small “cache” and then puts information online to help people find it. The clues online include GPS coordinates to where the item can be found typically with some vague visual clues to help once there. My wife and I tried our first last night as there was one only a few blocks from our house.
I've written before about geotagging photographs. This has become super easy since Flickr has added a geotagging function in the last few months. Sometimes, this may not be enough though. Tomorrow, my family and I are headed to Maine and plan to do a little boating (cold boating). I was interested in the idea of taking my GPS and my camera and finding a way to link waypoint data from the gps with photos that I take.
The sour feeling that’s in my tummy this morning tells me that today is Student Vote at Lincoln Public Schools. This is the fourth time that we have done student vote online (we do it every two years) and I’d like to think that I’ve gotten a little better at it each time – until this year. Things have really felt like a mess this time around. The biggest thing that has killed me is not having ballot information until the middle of October.
While Flock is still my favorite browser, I’ve been working a lot with Firefox to see what I think of it. I like it. As is typical, I think that the appearance of the windoze version seems a little more polished than the mac one (which is funny since they used different themes for them this time). I think the greatest thing that was added in this version is a built-in spell checker that checks anything you type into any web form.
del.icio.us/help/firefox Del.icio.us has a new firefox extension that is superb! It replaces the built-in bookmarking in Firefox with a del.icio.us powered one. It makes it very easy to create, tag and search your favorite sites in a way that is accessible to others that may be i (tags: delicious firefox bookmark) Repository of Recorded User Group Presentations (by dozens of speakers) A searchable database of Acrobat Connect (Breeze) presentations that have been created for user group use.
Security Bites Podcast: Firefox 2 beats IE 7 | CNET News.com (tags: ie firefox security)
See photos from max attendees here
Max 2006 Wed Party at PalmsOriginally uploaded by cynomyso. Max 2006 is over so I guess that means that its time to take a look back over the last couple of days. One thought that was going through my head this evening was how much this conference confirmed my feelings that web development is getting more exciting and doing anything but standing still. There was so much excitement at this conference around new ideas and directions such as Apollo, Flex and integration of PDF and Flash technologies.
I attended a session today covering the use of HTML and Javascript with Adobe’s upcoming Apollo product. Among many other things, Apollo will allow web applications to be deployed as desktop applications. For this to happen, Apollo must have its own HTML rendering engine. To my great surprise, that chosen HTML renderer is WebKit (the same used in Apple’s Safari). Want to make a web application apollo-ready? Design for Safari. Cool.
Max 2006 Tues General Session - Blue Man Group Originally uploaded by cynomyso. The Blue Man Group opened this year's MAX conference. Fun to watch, but sure seemed like a commercial for their nightly show here at the venetian. $99 a ticket?! Ha ha ha...
I’m out in Las Vegas this week with some co-workers attending the Adobe MAX conference. It’s a little different this year as it is the first year since Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia (whose conference it was before). Here’s what I’ve taken from today: Adobe is providing an unlimited amount of PDF kool-aid. I don't think that many have much against the format itself, but most everyone I know and talk with groan when we think about the Acrobat player.
I nuked my MacBook last week and this morning reinstalled ColdFusion using these instructions that I found earlier. I also installed the latest MySQL 5.1 which required some extra work detailed here. technorati tags:coldfusion, mysql
Mozilla has made release candidate 3 of the upcoming Firefox 2 browser available. technorati tags:firefox, mozilla
FatBits: John Siracusa's Journal: Open Apple When the big thing on the web now is corporate blogs (and I LOVE them), where are Apple's? I personally find Adobe's, Microsofts and others' blogs the most informative places to learn about what's going on. It seems to me that Apple could say and communic (tags: apple blogs) Eudora to Become Open Source Eudora has long been dead in my opinion.
Any Thoughts on Crucifixes? (tags: HSLuthBlogs)
The End of the World (tags: HSLuthBlogs) Pray continually (tags: HSLuthBlogs)