MeasureIt – Firefox ruler extension for web developers

Posted on 12/7/2005 by dni

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

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Give your Mac OS X computer a hostname with DynDNS

Posted on 12/5/2005 by dni

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 hostname can make it easier to remotely connect to your computer and run any kind of server.

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Google Groups : Google is Evil

Posted on 12/2/2005 by dni

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

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Wingdings and Webdings

Posted on 11/30/2005 by dni

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

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Filenaming conventions for managing image collections and image databases

Posted on 11/29/2005 by dni

Filenaming conventions for managing image collections and image databases

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

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Linotype FontExplorer X

Posted on 11/9/2005 by dni

Font Management – Simple, Smart, Free – Linotype FontExplorer X

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HOW-TO: Make a customized RSS screensaver in Tiger

Posted on 10/27/2005 by dni

Learn how to make a customized RSS screensaver in Tiger. From the nice folks at Engadget.

An article about if from when Quartz Composer was pixelshox

Apple’s Introduction to Quartz Composer Programming Guide

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GRAVITY Research: HIPerWall

Posted on 10/26/2005 by dni

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 Imaging Technology) at UCI, and provides a total resolution of 200 million pixels, bringing to life terabyte-sized data sets. HIPerWall’s resolution is nearly twice that of the world’s next-highest resolution display wall.

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Daring Fireball: CSS Syntax Checker for BBEdit and TextWrangler

Posted on 10/26/2005 by dni

Daring Fireball: CSS Syntax Checker for BBEdit and TextWrangler

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Triumph Collaborates with Designer Paul Smith

Posted on 9/29/2005 by dni

Triumph Motorcycles Collaborates with Designer Paul Smith

The initial collaboration created ‘Triumph by Paul Smith’, a modern collection of accessories and jeans wear inspired by Triumph Motorcycles. However, as the partnership grew so did the creativity and nine Bonneville T100′s were customised with individual paint schemes designed by Paul Smith to complement the clothing and accessory range. These nine one-off bikes generated so much interest that Triumph and Paul Smith created two more original Bonneville T100 custom designs, nicknamed the “multi-Union” and “Live Fast”, especially for retail. Only 50 of each of these two Limited Edition Triumph Bonneville T100s by Paul Smith will be produced for sale globally.

With all the heritage that makes these brands great, this is quintessentially British design with an added Paul Smith twist.

Or, more importantly, how to get one

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iFirstAid: First Aid Advice Online via Your iPod

Posted on 9/27/2005 by dni

First Aid Advice Online with iFirstAid
Audio files of basic First Aid techniques. Knowing what to do can make the difference to a person’s recovery, and you could even save their life.

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Kiss the PalmOS and the Treo Goodbye

Posted on 9/26/2005 by dni

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) I am greatly saddened.

The reason the device was successful, in my opinion, was the simplicity of the PalmOS. It does a few simple things and it simply does them well. Originally the Address Book and Calendar. The addition of the phone was both a no-brainer and a home run. Lots of other companies tried, but they could not match the good, clean design of the Treo or the simplicity of the Operating System. Remember that bulky blob of a thing Qualcomm could never get off the ground? The pdQ. Blech. The Kyocera pdQ2. Ewww.

…the weight of Windows may come as a shock to existing Treo users.

Another step backward is the reduction of screen resolution from 320 x 320 to 240 x 240 because, you guessed it, Win Mobile can’t support the higher resolution.

I can’t imagine putting up with that garbage and overhead. Who needs it?

Count me out.

Arrrg!

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Bob Mould: Zen and Now

Posted on 9/23/2005 by dni

Bob Mould: Zen and Now. From Harp Magazine.

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What exactly is a LAMP environment?

Posted on 9/21/2005 by dni

LAMP: Setting Up Your PHP Server Environment Using Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP

Another good place to look is O’reilly’s ONLamp.com

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A good description of AJAX

Posted on 9/20/2005 by dni

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

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Portable Firefox

Posted on 9/18/2005 by dni

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

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mpg into DVD via iDVD

Posted on 9/18/2005 by dni

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

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About Time They Released Palm Desktop for Mac – Too Bad It Sucks

Posted on 9/7/2005 by dni

Palm Desktop 4.2.1 Rev C for Mac seems to have been written by the dimmest person at Palm.

Unfortunatly, I did not have the sense to look at Version Tracker first – where it has been vary fairly reviewed. Doh!

The software is, to put it mildly, a piece of JUNK. It totally hosed my Mac by changing all sorts of permissions. I tried to open Dreamweaver, for instance, and was asked to authenticate. Won’t even let me use it when I type the admin password. Huh?

Even after running AppleJack, I seem to still to be up the proverbial creek without a paddle. :-(

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Achile : GREAT SOX!

Posted on 9/5/2005 by dni

Achile : Home of my favorite sock company.

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Bob Mould wrestles with his muse

Posted on 8/23/2005 by dni

Bob Mould wrestles with his muse: from the Boston Phoenix

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