While working on my employer’s web site, I found a document that was built with really ugly HTML. I cleaned up the HTML, used [H1] and [H2] instead of [font size+2][b] and I am really pleased with the resulting pages. The old page had 15,397 characters. The new page has 14,784 characters. Granted that is […]
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Does anyone know a good contact manager for OS X?
My office uses Macs for everything. Almost everyone has a laptop (an iBook or a PowerBook). And everyone is running either Jaguar (OS X 10.2) or Panther (OS X 10.3). And we have a rather large list of people that we need to contact for one reason or another. For years, we’ve been using Now […]
CSS Div and Span names?
Interesting article at Stuff and Nonsense: What’s in a Name? Let me think about using the same names to [div]s and [span]s. I think it is a great idea. It would be pretty cool to use the PlanetMike style sheet on any other site someone out there is running.
New Toy of the Day: Tungsten-E
I just got a new Palm, the Tungsten-E. My old Palm (the V) was basically working fine, but the screen was getting marked up, and the memory was really small, only 2MB. The Tungsten-E has a beautiful screen, color 240×240 pxiels (vs 120×120 gray). Battery life so far seems to not be great, but I’m […]
Washington (DC) Apple Pi Redesign
The Washington Apple Pi is a Washington DC user group for Apple computers. They’ve posted details about their site re-design. Very interesting article.
Layout-O-Matic
Really cool tool (ha, I’m a poet and don’t know it!) for creating CSS layouts. http://www.inknoise.com/experimental/layoutomatic.php
Eudora 6.1 Scheduling Compactions of mailboxes
I have a ton of mailboxes in my various Eudora setups. Every month or so I compact all the mailboxes. I do this by option-clicking on the mailbox info box in the lower left corner of a mailbox. What I remember happening is each box getting instantly compacted. Now it seems that they will be […]
FavIconic
While trying to find a way to manage Safari’s icon cache, I found a cool program called FavIconic. It uses AppleScript to retrieve a site’s web icon and assign it to a .webloc file stored on your Mac. Very slick. FavIconic. It would be nice if FavIconic put in some kind of “no icon available” […]
Link Colors
Jakob Nielson just commented that visited and un-visited links should be different colors. OK, fine, that should be a given. What about links that are a different color to an off-site page?
ShareClip
I just found a really cool free program called ShareClip. It shares text from your clipboard with one other computer, in very near real time. It works on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. I will find this very handy as I continue moving from Windows to the Mac at home. ShareClip.