Engadget has a good article suggesting people load up their USB drives with spyware/adware cleaners, Firefox and so on for fixing up their family’s PCs during the holidays. Lots of good suggestions in the comments as well. Today I did my small part by introducing my dad to Firefox as an IE alternative :) [Via Mike at Larkware who offers... (more)
November 2004 Archives
NASCAR’s season-ending “chase to the championship” wrapped up last weekend and overall feedback seems to be positive. Last weekend’s race was pretty exciting at the end. At first I thought the constant “points as they run” updates on TV would be tiring, but it was pretty cool how close everyone was and how a few positions made the difference. Full... (more)
Continuing my recent experiments with Flickr, I recently installed Jim Flanagan’s MTFlickrPhotosets plugin for this site. The plugin brings in the ‘primary’ photo for each photoset with a link (those of use reading from my RSS or Atom feed will need to visit the site to see…). My CSS needs some more tweaking to make the images look decent, but... (more)
A new application of Flickr (online photo system): Flickr Screensaver (for Windows) will automatically download pictures from Flickr and show them as your screensaver. There are numerous options for filtering which images to show — yours, everyone’s, by tag, by group, etc. I’ve been really impressed with Flickr so far, in particular their emphasis on developer interfaces which have lead... (more)
It’s not often that Santa Clara University makes the front page of Yahoo! Sports, but I guess that’s what beating a #4 team will do for you. Go Broncos!... (more)
Cory Doctorow has just published a new short story on Salon.com — Anda’s Game. I haven’t read it yet, but based on Cory’s previous works, I’m sure it will be interesting. A unique twist is the licensing of the story under Creative Commons, making it redistributable in different forms. Along those lines, I dusted off my knowledge of the old... (more)
Not quite “real time” posting, but I finally uploaded some of the pictures I took at the NASCAR race in Phoenix, AZ last weekend. Grace and I spent five days down there and had a blast. We made it out to the track (Phoenix International Raceway, or PIR) for all four days and got to see lots of behind-the-scenes action.... (more)
Jeff from Writing on Your Palm recently wrote a “howto” for Palmcasting — basically explaining what Podcasts are and how to download them to a Palm device. This is a nice summary of the steps involved and references Pocket Tunes which is shaping up to be the best media player for Palm OS. I’ve written before about Zodcasting with the... (more)
A couple weeks ago I put together a way to create S5 slideshows from CityDesk. Shortly thereafter, Christophe Ducamp wrote to tell me he created a French translation of the same: CityDesk Slideshows in French. Very cool! Incidentally, my page was linked on both CityDesk News and Joel On Software which generated a sizable jump in traffic for a week... (more)
The end of the line is almost here for the Sony CLIÉ. Following the announcement this summer that Sony was exiting the US PDA market, I just received this message from the CLIÉ Handheld Developer Support website: Sony Electronics Inc. hereby announces pursuant to the CLIE(R) Handheld Development Membership Agreement that the CLIE Handheld Developer Website and all related services... (more)
I’ve always found useful the State of California election results page, in particular their live scrolling election results (a Java application, I believe). Today I noticed they also have a special page formatted for PDAs or small screens. Cool!... (more)
It was just announced that my employer has hired Lloyd Braun, previously head of programming at ABC: Lloyd Braun, who was behind shows such as “The Sopranos” on HBO and “Lost” on ABC, will try to convince movie, TV and music companies to distribute more content exclusively on Yahoo, company officials said Monday. (Yahoo! News) Overall this should be a... (more)
