From the monthly archives:

March 2007

Reader Shawn Blanc pointed me to a great post of his covering ecto, a popular desktop blog publishing client for OS X. Shawn goes step by step through using ecto and explains the features. Personally, [click to continue…]

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Disclosure: This is another one of those paid-reviews-trying-to-pay-off-tuition things.
It’s a rather well-known fact that Microsoft’s attempts at integrating a top-notch firewall into their operating systems have come up short. If their integrated “firewall” was any good, they wouldn’t have made it so easy to disable it to use a real firewall and would have [click to continue…]

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By popular demand, Apple has introduced a new and extremely useful feature called Complete My Album into iTS. Frequent iTunes Store buyers will have no doubt found themselves in the predicament when they’ve bought a single for a yet to be released album. A few weeks or months [click to continue…]

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Pete Cashmore seems to believe that the current changes YouTube is undergoing tonight will be much more than just the maintanence they claim. The potential changes would include a new way to organize videos and facilitate user stickiness where they stay around [click to continue…]

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Over the next few months, Yahoo! Mail users will begin having unlimited storage at their disposal. From the news pieces I’ve come across, the attachment size limit of 10MB (20MB for Y! Mail Plus subscribers) per email hasn’t changed. So much for emailing large movies of your [click to continue…]

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Time Lapse Video of Downtown Atlanta

March 26, 2007

I put my old school Firewire iSight to good use by recording a time lapse video of downtown Atlanta, as seen from my bedroom window. I started recording at 3am last night and stopped it at 10pm tonight. I used the iSight’s magnetic

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Things Geeks Do When Bored

March 26, 2007

On the flight back to Atlanta today I was without my laptop, which is at Apple’s repair depot for who knows how long, and started to think of things geeks tend to do when they get bored. I had considered making a “you know you X when..”-type post similar to one of my favorite posts, [...]

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Apple TV Hacked, Plays Everything

March 23, 2007

Well that didn’t take long at all. Someone on the something awful forums was able to get his Apple TV to play videos in various encoding formats by adding codec support with Perian (a codec pack for QuickTime). Apple TV essentially runs a stripped down version of OS X.

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Review: MacUpdate Promo

March 22, 2007

Mac users are well aware of MacUpdate, the definitive resource for discovering new software titles and version updates garnering the attention of more than 3 million people each month. However, there hasn’t been much coverage of their latest project, MacUpdate Promo, so I’ll be going over it in this paid review.

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Google IG Gets Themes

March 21, 2007

Google silently added themes to personalized homepages today. Not including the basic Google theme, there are 6 themes you can try out. Interestingly enough, they are dynamic and change according to “your local weather conditions.”

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Apple TV Now Shipping

March 21, 2007

After a near month-long delay, Apple has begun shipping their Apple TV units which provide a long-needed connection between the media on your computer and your high-definition TV. Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal took the Apple TV for a spin.

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How To: Flickr Slideshow Badge

March 20, 2007

I love flickr and I’ve always yearned for a unique and interesting way of displaying my recent flickr photos on my site. Yeah, I could always just grab the standard flickr badge and style it up nicely with some CSS kung fu but in the end it will still be a bunch

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Refresh Houston/WordPress Meetup

March 18, 2007

Tomorrow night I’ll be attending a Refresh Houston meeting down here in Texas. There will be a special appearance by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg as well. If you happen to be in the area, please stop by and meet us. Otherwise, you can keep an eye on my flickrstream to see what went down. [Upcoming.org [...]

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How To: Optimize Your CSS Even More

March 18, 2007

Over the summer I wrote a post called 5 Ways to Speed Up Your Site that went through some basic tips for getting your site to load faster. I mentioned enabling gzip compression in WordPress and using services that remove the whitespace

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ActiveCollab, Basecamp and Goplan Comparison

March 17, 2007

Derek has posted an excellent comparison of three popular online project management and collaboration services. The most interesting of which, to me at least, was Webreakstuff’s new Goplan. I just moved over the random ideas I keep on my Basecamp account to Goplan. Which do you prefer?

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