Month: July 2006

Custom, “one of a kind”, metal artwork for your home and Harley.

Windows batch file directory replication

Keeping track of how you spend your work day isn’t easy, but it has many benefits. Last week’s article, Map your time, covered how to create your ideal schedule, and then compare it to reality. But how do you keep track of everything you do in one day? Yo

This is the current home for my little Google Calendar client. Inspiration for this app came from the OS X program Gcal.App. This is a small web browser that defaults to the Google Calendar page, and is rather stuck at that page. As everyone knows, a pict

Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles

The thrust of the news is this: straight-to-video BABYLON 5 adventures…involving B5 characters in an anthology format…should arrive late next year. Written and directed by JMS.

$1495.00, this little 110cc bobber,

BabySplat is “DonationWare”. If you find BabySplat to be of value to you and you would like to make a donation in support of future versions of BabySplat, please mail whatever you feel is appropriate to the address found in the Contact link. A donation is

Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text.

What it is: The Uncle Mark 2006 Gift Guide & Almanac is simply the very best guide for anyone vexed about technology, in search of good purchases, or who simply wants to know the answers to life’s incessant questions. Free.

The Junxion Box makes it easier for any device with Ethernet or Wi-Fi to connect with the latest data services from leading U.S. wireless carriers.

EVDO News, Tips, Products, Downloads, Benchmarks, EV-DO Forums, EVDO Coverage, EVDO Router

Wonder how difficult it would be to make a Duct Tape version…

* Fits SLR camera with short lens.
* Adjustable, detachable thickly
padded shoulder strap.
* Belt loop and handle for
easy carrying.

* Adjustable, detachable padded shoulder strap.
* Memory card holder included.
* Bump proof design.

* Briefcase style.
* 2 detachable inserts for SLR camera.
* 8 pockets for extra accessories.
* Adjustable, padded shoulder strap.

I’m so tired of seeing so many products with the same features that nobody wants. It’s bad enough to let feature requests from users get out of control, but when we start adding features just because our competitors have them, we’re all screwed.

Cool gadget bags and cases.

Motorcycle Racing School

The usability of two Web page layouts was directly compared: one with the main site navigation menu on the left of the page, and one with the main site navigation menu on the right. Sixty-four participants were divided equally into two groups and assigned

Why so much hunger? What can we do about it? To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught. Only by freeing ourselves from the grip of ­widely held myths can we grasp the roots of hunger and see what we can do to end it.

There are many free web browsers on the market. One of the best is Mozilla Firefox. Often referred to as just Firefox, it includes features such as pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, and increased security. Firefox’s design allows the user to extensively c

MTGoogleMaps is a Movable Type plugin that uses the Google Map API to embed Google Maps in your own web pages.

MTMaps is a Movable Type plugin that makes it easy to create Google Maps from your Movable Type blog entries. It’s perfect for
* Photo Blogging
* Travel Blogging
* Reviews
* Urban Diaries
* Collaborative Blogging
…or any ot

Inspired by Khoi Vinh’s post about using a background image of a grid for layout, and a subsequent post over at Smiley Cat about the same thing, I decided to knock up a quick Photoshop style Layout Grid Bookmarklet

MySQL Quick Admin is a MySQL database managing software tool. MySQL Quick Admin helps you manage your MySQL database without requiring you to know the actual Query Language. Experience fast querying with an easy to use interface.

Blade Engine is a free game engine and construction kit aimed at making Visual Novel easy to construct. It is fully localized into English.

If you’re looking for a CBR and CBZ reader for your favorite OS, look no farther. Comical is an easy-to-use, featureful GUI comic book viewer, written in C++ using wxWidgets. It’s open-source, so feel Free to contribute!

The Windows Image Viewer ‘CDisplay’ was written to ease the viewing of images in JPEG, PNG and static GIF format. This was partly down to the existing programs currently available being too general purpose and thus awkward to use when simply wanting to v

Inspired largely by DHH’s RailsConf keynote, I recently set about refactoring IconBuffet.com. Specifically, I wanted to embrace the SimplyRestful plugin and see how much of the application could be re-cast in terms of resources, as opposed to RPC—with

Rails AJAX controls are very handy, and the InPlaceEditor is probably one of the easiest and most neat of them all. But, it doesn’t do autocompletion. I’ve rectified that situation. The plugin provides a few new helpers and a new JavaScript-file that exte

Quotes collected from various sources including Marc Hedlund, Richard Bird, email signatures, and the crew at 37signals.

This is a basic tutorial of Excel.

Joe’s Goals is a simple yet powerful tool to make tracking your goals the easiest part of accomplishing them. Use our simple single page interface to setup daily and weekly goals and track your overall progress and score. Setup negative goals (or vices) t

OS X Web Browser

It’s an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will “interact” with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.

Patterns for PHP is a repository of Design Patterns implemented specifically for PHP. Tired of seeing Java implementations? Just want to see what Patterns are all about? Then come on in, browse, and if you wish, contribute to the growing number of Design

JamJar is a group collaboration service that offers graphical spaces to share and
store digital content. You can easily access the content anytime, anywhere.
It was designed for small groups to easily:
• Plan events
• Exchange ideas
• Manage