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iPhoto plus Photon plus MT
A helpful little walkthrough by Doug Bowman at Stop Design on using Photon (a $10 program by Daikini software) to export photos from iPhoto to a MovableType blog. Very useful.
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PHP Newbie Mistakes
I definitely found this article useful. I’m a PHP hack. I’ve been coding with it for a few years, I make it work well, but I’ve never been that technically excellent with it. PHPitfalls: Five Beginner Mistakes to Avoid from Digital Web.
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Image Rotation
A List Apart has two handy articles on how to make a very simple and clean image rotator for your Web site. The first one is a very simple image rotation script in PHP. The second is a bit more complex, but more feature rich image rotation script also in PHP. Very handy.
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Internet Explorer ‘too risky’ says Businessweek
I’m about a week behind in posting this (I got lazy), but I thought I’d put it here for posterity. Businessweek columnist Stephen Wildstrom says that Internet Explorer is too risky to use In late June, network security experts saw one of their worst fears realized. Attackers exploited a pair of known but unpatched flaws […]
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Spyware
I have noticed recently a rash in complaints about strange things happening with people’s computer (lots of absurd pop-ups, switching of the default search engine, massive amounts of porn, that they didn’t put there, showing up in their temp files and browser history). If something like this (or other weird things) apply to you, you […]
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Flash Slide Show
Todd Dominey, designer of the beautiful PGA championships Web site released his source for a very useful piece of flash. Flash Slide Show.
Quick Take
Virus Alert
This is the most clever virus I have seen yet. Bagel.J I got an e-mail that looked like this today (on my @rockisu.com e-mail account). Hello user of Rockisu.com e-mail server, Our antivirus software has detected a large ammount of viruses outgoing from your email account, you may use our free anti-virus tool to clean […]
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4096 Color Wheel
A Web safe color picker. Very handy. 4096 Color Wheel
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Firefox
I’m a little behind on this one (the news came out earlier this week, I was just too lazy to blog it): Mozilla has renamed Firebird to Firefox. Regardless of Dave Shea’s comments that Firefox sounds like an ’80s hair band, I think it is a sweet name. Although, it no longer sounds like a […]
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Web Browser
I realize that the majority of the population, and about everyone who reads this site, doesn’t give any thought to their Web browser. (For those of you who REALLY give it no thought… a Web browser is the program you are viewing this page with, RIGHT NOW.) Most of the world (I would say roughly […]
Reflection
3-D desktops?
I have been thinking about going Linux for a while now. Mostly because of my increasing loathing of Microsoft products. Microsoft products tend to be fairly poorly planned/constructed/maintained. Most often, instead of improving a product they abandon it in favor of a new piece of software or a new edition of it (Win 3.1->95/NT->98/NT4.0->ME->2000->XP-> I […]
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Web Page Optimization Analyzer
Good page speed analyzer. Breaks everything down nicely. Web Page Optimization Analyzer