Karelia announced the immediate availability of Sandovox and Sandovox Pro 1.0, a graphic-based Web site development application, on Wednesday. Sandovox includes support for blog, podcast, and online photo album publication, RSS feed generation, uploading sites via FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and .Mac, as well as support for add-on modules to enhance the application's functionality. Pro users can also supports the creation of raw HTML code so that advanced users can add their own code and server-side scripting elements.
O’Reilly Radar > Gentlemen Prefer PDFs I’ve been very interested lately in the PDF publications that have been available on the web. One of the most recent documents that I have bought is Getting Real by 37 Signals. The book sells for $19 which is a bargain considering what books go for at the book store. I get a good price while the authors get all of the revenue. Everyone wins (except the non-existent publisher).
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!
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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!.
technorati tags: yahoo, flock, safari
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.
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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?
technorati tags: ajax, spry
Labels sue XM over music-storing ‘mothership’ | CNET News.com I've been looking for one of these for a bit. I didn't realize that they were already out. The fact that XM is being sued over them just makes me want one more. Anything to stick it to the RIAA.
This player adds something to XM that is very necessary. I wish that media companies would find a way to get past the idea of streaming media and start creating more solutions like this that allow the customer to pick and choose the content that they are interested, to then listen to at their convenience.
Photos: Out of the box: Apple's new Intel-based MacBook | CNET News.com These pictures show the glossiness of the new MacBook screens. I'm always stunned by the way these glossy screens look in stores, but wonder about the glare. You can see a lot of reflection in the screen in these photos. MacBook Pros can now be ordered with this optional glossy display.
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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.
Snap is a new (I think) search engine that features a great look and page previews. I think it’s nice to look at, but frustrating to use.
technorati tags: snap, search
Yahoo! has posted a preview of their new home page and it’s looking good. I’ve been frustrated for a long time that there are so many do-it-all pages like Yahoo!, Google, Lycos and even newer options like pageflakes and netvibes and yet for the most part they are not pretty to look at. This new version of Yahoo! is one of the first that I have seen that makes good use of screen real-estate, is very customizable and is actually something that I would consider making my home page.
The User Agent Switcher Extension is useful to those that use browsers such as Flock that are often looked-over by sites that do browser filtering to ensure that those that visit the site have the browser necessary to properly do so. Adding this extension to Flock allows it to tell the server that it is Firefox (which it really is) and thus to access the site.
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Congress targets social network sites | CNET News.com
A bill will propose that social networking sites like MySpace be blocked. I'm all for the rights of schools to block access to anything that they feel detracts from the mission of education, but anything handed down by congress is likely to just be a distraction in itself. How broad would this be? Many of these sites are offer some of the best content on the web today.
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.
technorati tags: Apollo, Adobe, Flash