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October 23, 2000
Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse, now we’re all doomed to enter the era of slideware. Hold on to your Photoshop palettes, kids. That breeze you’re feeling on the back of your neck is the self-replicating democratization of a million indecipherable business graphics careening willy-nilly through slide sorters around the globe. … More
October 23, 2000
Apple: The message isn’t even medium. Given the obese history of inaccurate platitudes and persistent hallucinations propagated by a blood-thirsty media, I have never understood why Apple doesn’t just pull up to the intersection, slam on the breaks, and toot its own damn horn once in a while. Apple has always had lots to brag … More
October 22, 2000
Nuts. After just over a month without a reboot, this server of mine decided to take leave of its stability. With the monitoring software I have running, it tries desparately to restart on its own, but after a couple of tries at forcing certain apps to launch against their will, the whole box needs a … More
October 21, 2000
On Friday, Mike asked me if we could go get a coffee and chat sometime on Monday. Of course I said sure. Besides the fact that he’s been trying to convince me to take home prime pieces of his computer collection, I’ve had the sense that certain external forces have been carbonating his view of … More
October 21, 2000
I’ve mentioned this before, so bear with me. Gravité is one of my favorite, absolutely less than useful, Mac-only GUI-abusers. I’m not just saying this to repeat myself. The point of this post is to mention that it’s been updated. Now with asynchronous “crash” sounds. What more could you want?
October 21, 2000
Both Photoshop 6.0 and ImageReady 3.0 apparently support WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring & Versioning) workgroup integration, but do you think I can find even a shred of documentation for it anywhere on the Adobe site? Other than brief mentions in feature comparison lists, Adobe is placing WebDAV functionality squarely in the “on a need to … More
October 20, 2000
Dear Jane. Please be aware that I have fixed my “it’s”.
October 19, 2000
I know, it may sound like crazy talk, but I actually updated the Spiral Logo Critique tonight. No, really… I’m not kidding. A half dozen brand-spanking new, corporate offerings for all to peruse. Presented with finesse and care to appease the voracious design gods. Lightly-toasted to enhance the flavor. Spread the word. Share with your … More
October 19, 2000
Introducing another sure way of losing several more hours of your life sitting in front of the computer. AdFlip is like AdCritic for the dead tree set. Take it from Miss Fluffy Rice, she knows about classic advertising. Via dansays
October 18, 2000
I can’t nail the reason to the door quite yet, but XMacL could prove to be a very valuable resource in the near future. Especially with pointers to nuggets like Xpublish and FileMaker XML Central. All implied usefulness aside, doesn’t the name XMacL sound like noise that someone makes while eating sticky, chewy crumb cake?