What is Lorem Ipsum?
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
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
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
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
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)
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
Here's one of the sharpest personal sites I've seen for a while. Very nice.
A Rant (Mostly) About Web Content
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
P-P-P-PowerBook and the Billy Graham Special Edition iPod
Podcasting in USA Today.
Two articles: One from yesterday and one from today.
Firefox, Safari, others struck by spoofing flaw
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
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!
Google, in their labs area, has released Google Maps. These maps are incredible.
Podcasting on CNN
CNN is not podcasting, but has an article about it.
Quote of the day
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!!
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/
Why does Windoze still suck?
Here's an interesting article at sfgate.com reopening the mac vs win debate (as if it was ever closed).
iPods in Redmond
Wired published an article about employees with iPods at Microsoft's campus. Some are having to start sneaking around with them by not using the easy-to-identify white earbuds.
Altoid iPod Speakers
In a competition to create the best iPod accessory out of an Altoids can, a set of speakers won. See the winner and learn to make it yourself at Readymademag.com
Don't Click on the Blue E!
O'Reilly is publishing a new book called Don't Click on the Blue E! in March to help frustrated WinIE users make the switch to Firefox.