May 2005 Archives

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Original Star Wars producer sets the 9-12 movie stories straight.

The First Bluetooth Headset for your iPod AND your phone!

NeXT OSX Finder navigation

Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments don't hold up

The top 10te. “new” hot colors according to the Pantone Color Institu

NPR Shows as podcasts

The Backpack API is implemented as vanilla XML over HTTP. It does require that you send an additional header, which will identify the format of the data being sent. That header is X-POST_DATA_FORMAT which should be set to "xml".

I hardly find much in the way of new music on the radio. Haven't for years. And we've already analyzed how iPods have become the new radio.

DoGA project started in 1985 by university students in Japan, to support the newly born culture of CG animation.

The difficulty of grid systems in web pages, the compromise of columns.

Image-buttons displaying text can be replaced by text-only links. For these buttons are formated as inlines, they can be placed within the text, as well as treated as text — you can put them into lists, justify them (center, right), float them etc.

Index of MT API documentation

A story relating my frustrations trying to use Movable Type to build a simple events calendar.

FFView is a fast OpenGL-powered picture viewer a la ACDsee (2.x). It is aimed at letting you read manga or other comics onscreen (windowed & fullscreen mode). Features include fast prefetching, smooth panning, voice commands, 2-page mode, the ability to b

ExifRenamer is a tool for renaming digital photos, movie- and audio-clips of almost every camera vendor.

SmallImage is a simple and efficient tool to batch process JPEG files, resize them, recompress them, remove embedded profiles and make them ready for the web or store them efficiently.

JetPhoto is a full-featured freeware to store, organize, view and share digital photos, as well as publish photo albums onto Web. JetPhoto contains a Mac software - JetPhoto Studio, and a PHP-based Web service software - JetPhoto Server. It's easy to use

This article provides some common routines that you will use very often when using Active Data Objects (ADO) together with Active Server Pages (ASP). With little or no modification the routines can also be used in e.g. VB, Delphi, VBA etc.

The CSS cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing all selectors (as of CSS 2.1) and properties. It includes a visual example of the box model, unit reference for CSS units and the various media types CSS makes allowance for

Dojo is an Open Source effort by an invited set of contributors to create a UI toolkit that allows a larger number of web application authors to easily use the rich capabilities of modern browsers.

Growl is a global notification system for Mac OS X. Any application can send a notification to Growl, which will display an attractive message on your screen. Growl currently works with a growing number of applications.

Kaylee: You are a nice man, Captain. You always looking after us. You just gotta have faith in people.

it's a file-sharing program that utilizes ZeroConf (JmDNS libraries) for computer detection and shares files easily about platforms with simple drag n'drop. The GUI is done in SWT (allowing native graphics) and the program is written in Java.

Only in Kentucky, well Summersit, KY.

read multiple RSS feeds, post new entries to Movable Type.

I like to keep track of everything I write around the web on my own weblog. This script grabs the RSS feeds from the sites I have write access to, parses out the things that I wrote today, and posts them to my own site. I run it from cron every night. The

Dive Into Greasemonkey is a book about programming with Greasemonkey, a Firefox extension for customizing web pages.

Looking for no-nonsense advice on the best online sources for motorcycle parts?

In this tutorial I demonstrate how to style a Definition List, which is equally suitable for menus, but is a little easier to understand.

A mosaic of global land cover from Envisat's MERIS instrument. The same sensor is to be used as the basis of ESA's GLOBCOVER project to creating the most detailed land cover map ever. For this mosaic a total of 1561 orbits taking place over the period May

This article is a case study of the use of Perl and XML/RDF technologies to channel disparate sources of data into a semi-structured repository. This repository helped to build structured OLAP warehouses by mining an RDF repository with SAX machines. Chan

A location-based social networking system

RSS feeds and their templates

For a few months, I had deliberated adding a WYSIWYG Editor into the Movable Type entry screen and when Typepad implemented an editor into its interface I got jealous. So, here's a way to implement the very powerful HTMLArea into Movable Type (currently o

MT::REST is a Perl package that provides Movable Type support for REST-style access to all of Movable Type's core functionality via an extensible framework using only methods inherent to HTTP and a simple XML vocabulary. REST queries and results can be va

Metaphors for Designing Fair Intellectual Property Laws

"your failed business model is not my problem..."

It is a common scenario to have a list of entries sorted by date of publication. As this list may be rather long, it is reasonable to group entries and mark each group with a distinct group header. If you want to group by day, you can use the MTDateHeader

TigerWiki is here to track all of the great changes found in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. TigerWiki isn't exactly a "tips & hints" site, as much as it is a way to find and track all of the cool new features of Tiger. And unlike sites like Mac OS X Hints, TigerWi

This document provides an overview of Dashboard and the widgets that exist in it. It walks you through the creation of a sample widget, discusses optional features that may be implemented in a widget, and touches on native code integration through a widge

the challenge was to build a lockpick device by using computer parts, and of course we did it, and it works pretty well and really fast.

Use this website to create a PDF file which can be printed and folded to create a paper CD case. For folding directions, see the about section. To add more tracks, a mailing address, or graphics to the case, use the advanced form. Mix CD cases created wit

The GIMP is the most popular free alternative to Photoshop - available for alot of platforms. Photoshop users have big problems switching because they have a hard time locating Photoshop's features in The GIMP.