Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
Read Wired’s piece on the 37signals guys last night and then saw it again this morning via DF. Haven’t looked around too much to see what others are saying but the DF emphasis seems to be on “ginned-up conflict” vs. doubled revenue in ’07. Coming away from the article last night, I find myself with […]
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OS X 10.4.11 is out. Included in the update is Safari 3. Initial, 30-second impressions? Well, Safari can finally rock-and-roll with all of the WordPress editor features. So I’m happy about that. (Now to bring all of my Camino bookmarks back over…) Everything else looks like bug fixes, patches, security updates, compatibility improvements, and the […]
Back at the beginning of October, I decided to take the plunge and “switch” from using iCal more/less exclusively for my calendaring to using the web-based Google Calendar more/less exclusively. The reasons for the switch (even as just an experiment) were myriad and had built up slowly over a period of about two years. The […]
Mentioned in passing the other day, Simile Timeline is a neat little API for building rich timeline visualizations with annotations. Though the documentation is a bit thin at the moment, the core code is not too difficult to figure out 1 and if you start with a straightforward example (like this one) then you can […]
WordPress 2.3 upgrade here at F_D is … well, it’s more-or-less complete. The Extended Live Archive plug-in had some compatibility issues so it was discarded for the simple and effective “Compact Monthly Archive” plug-in. At least for now. At least until I can roll-my-own archives plug-in 1. On the flip of that, switching to the […]
F_D in transit to WordPress 2.3… Plugging in the new native tagging API was a snap (10 minutes max). There’s a built-in migrator for existing Ultimate Tag Warrior tags (bonus) so getting this rolled out to the live environment should will go nice and smooth. The bummer part is with the “conflict” reported on the […]
jQuery makes JavaScript webdev so easy it’s almost stupid; 5 minutes of experimenting with the jCarousel extension followed by 10 minutes of wiring it up and then 10 minutes of CSS followed by 5 minutes of jamming it all through SVN 1 and a home-rolled Twitter marquee is born. Been on a good consistent writing […]
Hold down cmd+ctrl when you hover over a link in VoodooPad; you’re in for a treat: Just more evidence that this is the greatest application available today.
I didn’t exactly “get it” with the iPhone but this week’s release of the iPod touch has me convinced: when the much-rumored, ever-coveted “tablet Mac” comes, it’s going to be an iPod. It’s going to be a big iPod (form-factor-wise, x- and y- but not z-axis-wise) with some extra, even fancy features — but it’s […]