Boing Boing gets credit for bringing this to my attention. Straight Line Designs creates some of the most unusual furniture I have ever been delighted to see. Coincidentally, their Flash animation is stunningly wonderful! I wish I had that talent. The intro page is cute but the main site menu make wonderful use of both […]
Load Acrobat Reader Faster
Forever Geek has a great tidbit on how to make Acrobat load faster on Windows. This made a world of difference for me: Find the Acrobat Reader folder. On my system, with Acrobat 6 installed, this is C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader Open the plug_ins folder. Move all of the files and folders to the Optional folder […]
Big Brother is Watching in Chicago
From Slashdot we learn that Big Brother, and everybody else, is watching if you commit a crime in Chicago. Check out ChicagoCrime.org to see where the bad guys are operating in the Windy City. Possibly more practical is this Cheap Gas hack. Hats off to Google Maps, which is providing the underlying mapping data for […]
Stock Photography, Images, Animations, Graphics
Looking for images for your web site? Be they photographs, animations, or graphics, here are a couple of good places to look. iStockphoto has a wide variety of stock photography with some graphics. Prices are incredibly cheap, just $1 for low resolution stuff that is suitable for web sites. Animation Factory has a huge variety […]
On-line Photo Galleries
I have two favorite on-line photo galleries, depending on whether you want to host the photos on your own server or let someone else handle the heavy lifting. For free stuff on your own web server / web site, nothing beats Gallery. This works great until you start to fill up the disk on your […]
Fond Memories of Amdahl
Deadprogrammer’s Cafe has a wonderful posting titled Amdahl : Business in the Front, Party in the Back which includes photos of a board out of an old Amdahl 470 mainframe. That was the first “large” computer that I ever used, at the University of Michigan in 1976. Ahhh… those were the days. 😉 Those of […]
Bug Fixed: One Reason Why Open Source is Cool
Ever wonder about why people like me continually rave about the wonders of open source software? One reason is because bugs get fixed really fast. Witness some of the security flaws in Firefox which were reported recently and patched within a few days. Here is a more personal example. I had been having a problem […]
Ease of Self-Publishing
Blogging continues to fascinate me on both the technological and the social levels. I noticed an article in Wired News this morning titled Bands Embrace Social Networking. Apparently lots of musicians, from indies through established bands, are using MySpace’s music section to self-publish, bypassing the radio stations and MTV. Add to this the rise of […]
Google Delivers
Google impresses the heck out of me. Obviously, it provides an awesome array of features, stuff that you can get from it. Underlying all of that stuff, however, is an incredible chunk of software that “understands” what you want. Google “knows” a lot about what is out there. When you type a query, Google matches […]
Hillarious Firefox Promo Videos
Ever wonder why so many of us think that Firefox is great? Watch these videos. There’s nothing more that I can say…. 🙂
Pay Microsoft Twice
Microsoft today announced the beta test of Microsoft OneCare. In case you haven’t heard of OneCare, this is Microsoft’s anti-virus “solution.” Doesn’t it seem odd that MS builds insecure software and then wants to sell us a second product to secure it? Isn’t this like buying a brand-new-but-broken safe from the store and then paying […]
Asterisk@Home (and Office)
I started using Asterisk@Home for an office phone system a few weeks ago. Very cool! Basically, Asterisk is a phone system (a PBX) that runs on a PC. If you can imagine something that an full-up office phone system does, I can do it. Asterisk@Home is a project to make Asterisk easy to install.
Starting Out With WordPress
I’m usually an “early adopter” but seem to be coming to the blogging world a bit on the late side. Better late than never, though. WordPress was easy to install and that both impresses me and doesn’t surprise me. What does surprise me is that Verio bothered to provide a vinstall for it on my […]
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