Archive for the 'tech' Category

How to do the Math with Google Earth Pallete Icons

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

How to do the Math with Google Earth Pallete Icons. How to select icons for your Google Earth map.

Lightbox JS

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

Lightbox JS
Lightbox JS
Lightbox JS is a simple unobtrusive script used to to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

The Best Mouse for a Macintosh. Period. MacMice The Mouse.

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

MacMice The Mouse. I love this product. Let me say it again: “I Love This Mouse”. I bought one about a year and a half ago. It crapped out fairly soon, but the folks at DVForge sent me a new one instantly - no questions asked and they were very nice [...]

Music to make code by

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Music to make code by, according to Red Hat Linux developers. “Hats Off” to the inclusion of The Living End

Essential Wireless Hacking Tools

Friday, December 16th, 2005

From The Ethical Hacker Network comes: Essential Wireless Hacking Tools, and even more important, Protecting Against These Tools.

moo.fx + script.aculo.us + Prototype: javascript effects libraries + Dojo

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

moo.fx - the next small thing
moo.fx is a superlightweight, ultratiny, megasmall javascript effects library, written with prototype.js.
and…
Building upon the wonderful Prototype JavaScript library, script.aculo.us provides you with some great additional ingredients to mix in. script.aculo.us
and…
The original Prototype. A JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
And now there is Dojo:
Dojo is [...]

MeasureIt - Firefox ruler extension for web developers

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

MeasureIt - Firefox ruler extension for web developers. A very nifty little extension for measuing anything in your browser window.

Give your Mac OS X computer a hostname with DynDNS

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Give your Mac OS X computer a hostname with DynDNS
This article will show you how to easily setup a free DNS service that will give your Mac computer a static hostname. There are a lot of possibilities you can use this for, as most of the Internet connections offer dynamic IP addresses. Having a dedicated [...]

Google Groups : Google is Evil

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

Google Groups : Google is Evil Seems Google has some unhappy customers these days. Are they getting too big for their britches?

Wingdings and Webdings

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Fun with Wingdings and Webdings. How to figure out what the keyboard mappings are for those little Wingdings and Webdings.

Filenaming conventions for managing image collections and image databases

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Filenaming conventions for managing image collections and image databases
and Recommendations for Limitations on Image Filenaming for managing image collections and image databases

GRAVITY Research: HIPerWall

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

GRAVITY Research: HIPerWall
Scientists at UC Irvine have completed the world’s highest-resolution grid-based display for visualizing and manipulating massive data sets. The Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Wall (HIPerWall) is a room-sized display that measures nearly 23 x 9 feet.
The HIPerWall system, consisting of 50 flat-panel tiles, resides in the Calit2 Center of GRAVITY (Graphics, Visualization and [...]

Kiss the PalmOS and the Treo Goodbye

Monday, September 26th, 2005

Analysis from PC Magazine: “Palm’s Dangerous Path”
Palm unveiled their first Windows Mobile Treo today…
As a palm user since around 1996, and a Treo 600 user from the minute they came out (I had seen one early, for about 2 seconds, in the hands of uber-designer Peter Skillman and HAD to have it) [...]

What exactly is a LAMP environment?

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

LAMP: Setting Up Your PHP Server Environment Using Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP
Another good place to look is O’reilly’s ONLamp.com

A good description of AJAX

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

from the folks at adaptive path: ajax: a new approach to web applications. A good description of AJAX.

Portable Firefox

Sunday, September 18th, 2005

ThePlaceforitAll.com - Portable Firefox
Mac and PC Compatible Cross-platform Portable Firefox

mpg into DVD via iDVD

Sunday, September 18th, 2005

Quick refresher on the steps needed to turn an mpg into a DVD using iDVD

The 10 Best Resources for CSS

Monday, August 15th, 2005

The 10 Best Resources for CSS. From SiteProNews.

IT PLAYS DOOM

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

IT PLAYS DOOM - Cell Phones, mp3 Players, and other Gadgets
Our goal is to bring together every gadget enabled to play DOOM. From watches to refrigerators, if it’s out there we’ll find it.

Microsoft deletes Apple

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Microsoft’s Earth deletes Apple HQ via. The Register