ISSN 1496-3221
December 12, 2001
I was in a tidying mood tonight and discovered that I had ten Adobe applications, full versions and updates alike, that had never been registered. I’d better get on that first thing in the morning. I’d reallt hate to miss out on great benefits like technical support, early notification of product upgrades, new product announcements, … More
December 12, 2001
Alright, who was the wise guy that said that 6.x browsers were nothing but the berries? Everybody’s flavour favourite, the emphatic A List Apart, does what it does best and describes a couple of annoying bugs in them there next generation page parsers. They certainly aren’t the end of the world, but you should be … More
December 10, 2001
Stop it man, you’re making my brain hurt. Left coastal friend Noel has done it again. First it was his font metrics parser and now it’s this. Dynamically editable text displayed on an customizable arc path, again using Flash. Would somebody just hire this guy. Until that actually happens, here’s something else for you to … More
December 9, 2001
Thanks to everyone who sent it suggestions regarding my quest for an MP3 batch processing solution. It’s looks like the way to go is to use iTunes. By specifying a custom import configuration and changing the default music folder, I can suck in as many of my existing ripped tracks as I want and then … More
December 8, 2001
Something came over me this morning, somewhere between my first tall latte and my second cup of regular brew. I went ahead and installed the Mac OS 9.2.2 update. One of the component revisions in this update is the bumping of AppleScript to version 1.7, and true to Apple’s form of late, it’s very thinly … More
December 7, 2001
I’m looking for a piece of software that will let me batch downsample a wide variety of MP3s to 56 kbps mono. Mac only, of course. Any suggestions?
December 7, 2001
Brilliant. Enhance the functionality and usability of online forms using a few extra tags and attributes to the various form elements. A mildly aged tidbit over at Gazingus shows us how. These simple additions are so obviously useful, that there is really no excuse for not doing it on every site you work on. It … More
December 7, 2001
Following up on my post about using proper ligatures on web pages, eagle-eyed blog scout Jerry Kindall brought up a couple of very good points. Points which had been completely obscured by my own typographically-induced fog of discovery: “[Using ligatures makes] it nigh-impossible to search for words like “aesthetic”on your site, should one want [or] … More
December 6, 2001
And now class, let’s visit the Microsoft Crash Gallery, which is currently exhibiting some of the advances in the user experience afforded by Mac OS X. Expect nothing less from your software. Via myapplemenu
December 6, 2001
A fluke? A strange burp in the log file data? An inexplicable traffic spike? No, nothing like that. It’s completely explicable after all. The available domain name of the week ended up being politely metafiltered yesterday. Now, back to your desks everyone.