Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
RubyOSA (via TUAW) a Ruby/AppleEvent Bridge (tags: AppleScript Ruby dev OSX todo) More Internet Preference Pane for OS X that allows you to configure what application handles the downloading of different file types. (tags: freeware Mac OSX software UI tools) MenuMeters via Raging Menace – a preference pane for OS X that allows you to […]
Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS Yahoo!’s CSS-based grid system for flexible, componentized layouts… (tags: Yahoo webdesign webdev reference essay framework CSS) VoodooPad online documentation (tags: VoodooPad reference) Locomotive (tags: OSX Ruby Rails dev freeware software todo)
The complete work of Charles Darwin (tags: biology evolution reference research science Darwin history) Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists via SitePoint Books (via /.): a book on website design/development from a lifecycle approach, leaning heavily on checklists (apparently) – – sounds worth checking out if only for the best practices (tags: webdesign […]
Issue: Poor wireless performance in areas of the house. Complicating Factors: Accounting for the “expected” signal decay (i.e., through several walls), there are 4+ WiFi networks detectable from our house. While not positive, it is relatively safe to assume that one of them is causing interference on our channel. Solution: Change channels. Methodology: U.S. standards […]
When we left off, we had basically concluded that Microsoft Word was out of the running. Content creation was relatively easy but the output was ugly (technically-speaking) and the publication problem itself was totally unsolved. So (I said to myself) what about iWeb? The disclaimer (of course) is that (1) I’m admittedly biased toward the […]
Dear iTunes crew: Enough with the meta data already… Skip Count? Last Skipped? Jeez… I thought *I* was obsessive about this stuff but then along came these and I just… I just don’t know what to say. On the other hand: Thanks for getting “Album Artist” in there. That solved a lot of problems. (While […]
How-To: SSH tunnels for secure network access via Engadget: a pretty good tutorial on how to set up SSH tunneling (as well as what it’s good for); includes a link to a tunnel manager for OS X. (tags: ssh OSX terminal geek howto security tutorial) libwpd a library for importing and exporting WordPerfect ™ documents […]
Lingon Peter Borg’s launchd manager/editor (tags: Apple Mac OSX launchd opensource software) Wired Top 10 Films in the Public Domain (tags: CreativeCommons publicdomain copyright video film) iTunes Cheat Sheet (tags: iTunes reference visualization)
Let’s continue and see if we can’t identify a contender or two. In our last episode, we laid down a few ground rules with respect to the application we envision as our goal by digging into the context of our subject-slash-target audience. In this episode, let’s think about our content creation tool and give only […]
When we last saw our hero, he was pondering the question: “How do I teach web publication to a scientist and/or university professor? Someone who is obviously smart but also technologically UN-savvy?” It is a tough question. As we previously discussed, the question is not just “how do I most easily make an HTML document?” […]