Cool, a stand alone version for the Mac of Apache, Mysql and PHP: MAMP.
Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
Run DOS on a Mac
I’ve never needed to run Windows on my Powerbook, but have needed to run some old DOS programs I wrote. So I would either use the Windows XP machine at work, or my ancient Windows ME machine at home. But today, I found an alternative: DOSBox. DOSBox is a DOS emulator for Linux, Windows (why?), […]
Interesting Tool
I’m experimenting with RSS Digest. It takes news feeds and allows them to easily be included on other web pages.
Can’t Copy to Paste from PDF
I am researching audio formats for the Internet Caucus and found an interesting quote in a PDF. I selected the text, hit copy and got an error box asking for the document’s password so I could copy and paste. What purpose is that? I wanted to use one sentence from the file. Instead I had […]
Finally installed Fedora Core 3
I’ve been running RedHat Linux 7.something on an old test machine at home for a few years. About a month ago I upgraded that machine to Redhat 9. Nice operating system, it seemed to work fine. So, what did I do? I just erased and installed Fedora Core 3. The install went much more quickly […]
.ico plugin for Photoshop
A very cool free! plugin for Photoshop CS: ICO (Windows Icon) Format. It’s very easy to operate.
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
You can either pay around $80 for the Handbook of Applied Cryptography, or you can download it from the author’s web site at http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/.
Microsoft doesn’t think things through
Microsoft has a web page describing the benefits of Windows XP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/experiencemore/default.mspx. But if you go that page in Safari (under OS X) the page cancels itself from loading. Yeah, that really makes me want to switch back to Windows. I found that MS page after googling a link mentioned in this article at Wired: […]
Pay an extra fee for your domain name
You don’t mind paying an extra $1 or so on each domain name you register do you? Good. That’s what ICANN thinks too. ICANN is the group that oversees domain name policy. Read ICANN partying like it’s 1999 for more on the subject. Me, I think it’s stupid to charge approximately 10% more for each […]
iPhoto Improvement
iPhoto needs to be able to do subcategories (sub-albums). I have many albums related to family events, it would be great to be able to hide them when working on an album related to my Travel photos. So I could have 4 or 5 main Albums (Family, Friends, Travel, Work) and then have albums under […]