Here is my list of my favorite free Mac software: Audacity Chicken of the VNC Galerie NetNewsWire Lite Chax
Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
What’s in your menu bar?
I change the items in my menu bar every few months. As of March 8, 2006 this is what I had: From left to right: GizmoProject: VOIP client, $5 month for an incoming phone number, portable to any computer iKey: keyboard macros DeskTopple: hides my desktop’s icons (a bit better than Backdrop) NetMonitor: shows my […]
Internet Blog Serial Number
My IBSN (Internet Blog Serial Number) is 46-00-43-9745. Of course, I can’t tell if this is a serious undertaking, or a spoof, but the number itself is random. You can choose your own! And you can get a bar code too. Oooohhhh! Update: 2008-01-06 5:45pm: It’s a porn site now, so I removed the link. […]
Web Browser Usage
While cleaning my office, I found some ancient web server logs. I started playing with them and realized I could run a web browser chart to see how popular various web browsers really are. The site these logs are generated from is a small site that is not actively updated any longer. I don’t want […]
to www or not to www?
I know there are some efforts out there to get web sites to stop using the www, but I still believe that a web site should resolve to the same place no matter if the user is entering planetmike.com or www.planetmike.com. Just now, I ran across two sites that don’t come up at all if […]
I found a Tiger Security Bug!
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Apple Front Row
The new iMacs with the embedded iSight camera also have a nifty piece of software called Front Row. It allows easy access to audio, video, movies, and photos. To make it work on other Macs, check out How To Install Apple’s Front Row.
CSS Typography
An interesting article, detailing lots of information about using CSS to format typefaces used on web sites: CSS Typography.
Network Solutions and Firefox
I just tried to renew some domains at Network Solutions (for work, not for me) using Firefox 1.5 under OS X. All I get after logging in and making a selection is a blank screen. Great.
My first Flash movie
Wow, my first Flash movie. Let’s see how this turns out. I’m working my way through the “Getting Started with Flash” ebook that came with Macromedia Studio 8.