NVU Update v0.8.1
Filed in Freeware, Technology on February 11, 2005 at 9:55 amNVU has been updated to v0.8.1. This updated brings back the Help Contents menu entry and fixes a critical issue which broke most HTML4 pages. The release notes and download links are available here. NVU is a cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux, Linspire) and easy-to-use Web Authoring System built to rival other programs [...]
Browse Happy
Filed in Technology on February 10, 2005 at 6:30 pmTo all of you who still use Internet Explorer, give it the boot and browse happy. Why? Because Internet Explorer (even in Windows SP2) is just plain unsafe, targeted far too often as a gateway for system attacks, and viciously ignores certain web standards. As for my Mac friends, please stop using [...]
Happy Anniversary!
Filed in General on February 9, 2005 at 10:48 pmHappy Anniversary, Darling! You mean the world to me!
The Giant’s Shadow Looms Over All
Filed in Nostalgia on at 2:15 pmShadow of the Giant is Orson Scott Card’s next installment to the Ender’s Game series. It looks like we’ll be finishing up the Bean Quartet and moving one step closer to that rumored linking book between the Ender and Bean Quartets. You can read the first three chapters here. If you haven’t [...]
Updated MSN Search Rankings
Filed in Humor, Technology on February 7, 2005 at 4:25 pmJust in case you haven’t laughed enough today, it seems like I’ve moved up in the world since my last rant about MSN Search (Beta). My current results are: #22 for a search of “latitude/longitude distance calculation”, #6 for “SNES games”, #5 for “recommended snes games”, #2 for “Tux HeadPhones”, #2 for “msn [...]
PodBrix: Your Custom iPod-Toting Lego Man
Filed in Humor, Nostalgia on at 3:59 pmI stopped playing with my Legos a long time ago, but PodBrix has really caught my attention. What would I do with a “PodBrix Minifig - 1K Brix”? I’d add some Apple flavor to my old Lego sets, or just brag to all of my friends about having one.
PUM: Emergency Repairs
Filed in MacMerc on February 6, 2005 at 11:10 amAre you seeing some strange behavior on your Mac? Is your Mac not getting past the boot phase? Is it difficult to get to Disk First Aid? Have you lost your OS X install disk (shame on you!)? Then you had better hope you have AppleJack installed. Join me for this week’s Power User [...]
Favored Freeware: Thunderbird
Filed in Freeware on February 5, 2005 at 10:01 amThunderbird is a simple to use, powerful, full-featured, and customizable email application. Thunderbird supports IMAP and POP mail protocols, as well as HTML mail formatting. Easily import your existing email accounts and messages. Built-in RSS capabilities, powerful quick search, spell check as you type, global inbox, deleting attachments and advanced message filtering round out Thunderbird’s [...]
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