Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Tabloid Wars episode one is available for free download via the iTunes music store. If you haven’t watched it and missed all the reruns, you might as well go grab it. While you have iTunes open, grab the recently deployed éS Footwear podcast too. You’ll be SO in the know that you’ll have it before the iTunes podcast directory even has it listed!
As del.icio.us users increase their activity, especially del.icio.us users who ride skateboards, these home brewed RSS feeds will only improve:
Skate Video (go tag some video files):
http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:media:video+skateboarding
Or any video:
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Just the other day I was thinking how nice it would be if I could get my library book due dates into iCal. The library already sends out automated emails reminding you when your books are coming due, that’s a pretty nice starting point. Surely it would be pretty easy using apple mail to setup a rule that creates an iCal event. However, I use Entourage. It wouldn’t be worth the switch, but was probably doable using Entourage and maybe some applescript anyway. I forgot about it.
This morning I was peeping all the links in my del.icio.us network, as I love to do, and low and behold came across a piece of software called Library Books. Ten minutes later, I’ve got an iCal Calendar reminding me when my Library books are due!
I don’t recall how I came across the particular user who added the link of interest, probably a blog I enoyed, but at some point I was interested in what the user was linking and added them to my network. Add enough users who share like interests and over time, the network will actually begin to reflect your very thoughts! Wow, that’s exciting!
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Itunes enables you to subscribe to various podcasts, of course. A podcast is really just an RSS feed – get a feed w/ some video in it – and you’ve got yourself a dynamic, self updating, video resource. To hunt down new skateboarding videos for example, simpy add http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:media:video+skateboarding as a podcast.
The only problem is – there’s not that many videos tagged with skateboarding. At least not on delicious. There’s a few, & as delicious gains users, it’s worth it to add it as a podcast, but YouTube’s similiar feed (http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/skateboarding.rss) is looking much better. Twenty new skate videos in the last 12 days, over 2,000 total. The problem here is, naturally, itunes doesn’t support .FLV’s; which happen to be the up & coming format for video on the web.
With all those ipods & itunes users out there – you’d hope apple will try & support as many formats as possible. They of course, don’t have a record for this sort of thing – so keep your eyes open for third party software, or keep your FLV’s in your browser.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
What browser seems faster? Safari or Firefox? I’ve been using firefox on my mac for so long now, I decided to do a little webbernet surfing w/ safari this morning. It seems much quicker. Pages are rendering faster, there’s no delays when switching between tabs, I’m lovin it. I don’t remember it always being like this. Perhaps it’s the updated Safarai (2.0) that came w/ Tiger?
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Mozilla released firefox, Deer Park Alpha 1 with a slew of support for the latest & greatest.
What Web dev features in Deer Park Alpha 1 are you looking most forward to?
Some portions that I look forward to include, but are not limited to:
- The outline property – “Outlines may be non-rectangular” – how sweet is that?
- Multi-column layout – (of course, we all want this)
- (continued) Support of basic css3 selectors
- overflow-x and overflow-y properties
Unfortunately, as we continue to develop for IE on both the mac & pc, these techniques will continue to go unused. Who else wants a simple input[type="radio"] to work cross-browser? In preperation for the day these sweet joints can be utilized freely, let’s celebrate and declare classes that cleary overwrite our css3 selectors!!
Are you using the Deer Park release of Firefox yet? Have you read through the latest supported features? What’s YOUR future favorites?
Friday, May 13, 2005
Running into the bug mentioned on this css-discuss archive:
When the container div is set to the exact size of the background image AND the background position is other than 0 0 (px,cm,pt,em) then the background position is ALWAYS repeated, even if position-repeat has been set to no-repeat.
Here’s a related example of the bug (This one happens when the bg img is positioned to anything other than 0 0, and it’s container is smaller than the bg img).
This may be fixed in safari 2? We’re running 1.3 here.
Thursday, August 19, 2004
The seemingly obvious pyramid scheme know as freeipods.com, (yes that’s my referrer link) got a shot in the arm yesterday when Wired devoted an entire article to the fact that it’s legitimate.
Complete with semi-convincing external URL’s you’re now thinking, yeah – I’ll give that a shot, There’s no way Wired.com got it wrong. Is there? But Wouldn’t we have seen MORE people on the internet receiving their free ipods? The small handful of “verifiable cases” opens the floodgates of second doubts. My opinion is that the offer is in fact real, it’s just harder than it sounds to complete the actual requirements. It’s too good not to try, we’ve all got that email no longer worth hiding from spammers anyway, it’s the one you use on friendster and classmates.com.
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Mac OS X Update 10.3.5 – notice the updated ATI video drivers, only 9 months & a replaced card too late…
Thursday, July 22, 2004
macosxhints – Send SMS messages to mobile phones from iChat… This puppy works amazingly!! Text message recipient can even text you back, and BAM – pops right up in iChat. Great for people like me who no longer can afford a cell phone, but still nee to conduct some basic forms of long distance communication. TRY IT NOW.
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