An interesting article on colors on the web, Color it effective: How color influences the user, from Microsoft.
Constructive Criticism
I got quoted in an article at Lockergnome. Cool.
Odd HotSync Error
I just tried to sync a large file to my 512MB SD-card. And got this nice, helpful error message: ” – Unexpected error number 16385.” I don’t know which is worse, that I got an error at all; or that the error I got wasn’t the one that the Palm was expecting.
Google Suggest
A very cool addition to Google, it’s Google Suggest. Don’t ask me to explain, just try it and be amazed.
UnsubscribeNow.org spam?
It seems very odd to me to run a anti-spam service and advertise it via spam. And even odder still to not follow the very law that your site is supposed to help consumers with. (yes, I ended that sentence with a preposition.) Be careful of these kinds of services, opt-out through a third party raises difficult issues.
We got an iMac G5
We just got an iMac G5 from the Apple Store. Definitely check out the Special Deals section of the Store. We saved $350 there. The machine itself is really nice, it’s super quiet, enormous LCD screen.
Of course, the bad thing about totally ditching Windows is having to get all new software. I’ll post a list later this week of what we end up with.
Making Favicon.ico
I can never remember how to make a favicon.ico for my websites.
Simply make a 16×16 Windows bitmap at 72dpi. The settigns should be Windows bitmap, 16bit. The file is named favicon.ico at the top level of the web server’s file directory.
Removed MacMerc from my Feedreader
I just removed MacMerc from NetNewsWire, the program I use to read RSS (newsfeeds) from several dozen web sites a few times a day. MacMerc sometime recently started putting an advertising image at the bottom of each article. This has the same effect as a web bug (aka web beacon). Regardless, it’s quite annoying, so I simply won’t read that newsfeed anymore.
Open Source software Quote
This tidbit came from the OpenOffice.org newsletter:
Partners Weigh In On Firefox, IE Faceoff
“”It’s much more than a browser share war. It’s a war for
open standards, and the forces opposing Microsoft are much
heavier than a company,” said Sam Hiser, a consultant and
developer for OpenOffice, an open-source competitor to
Microsoft Office. “For Microsoft it is about preserving
their nefarious capability of dictating Web page design
habits, which are dependent on Microsoft’s browser.
Firefox represents a challenge to such a racket.” “