MecuryNews reports that Adobe has asked employees to take paid vacation days this week as it is closing its North America operations for the week. This comes as the second week the offices has closed this year, with a third week looming sometime later in the year. This is in addition to the normal time [...]
While I love Safari 4, Firefox is certainly a great browser and a significant upgrade is available today. Features include: New rendering engine for faster page loads New Javascript rendering engine – for blazing fast Javascript performance. HTML 5 support Geo-awareness Improved Search Improved Privacy Controls Several other features Just to hit on a few [...]
According to FoxNews, the US has finally started the long process of removing troops from Iraq and returned control of the country back to its people. The Status of Forces agreement signed in November 2008 began the withdrawal and nearly 7 months later, the people of Iraq have control of their country. The US has [...]
If you have ever used Mint for your site statistics, you have a pretty good idea of the high quality software coming from Shaun Inman. However, Shaun has outdone himself this time with a completely different take on RSS feeds and news management. Shaun’s motivation for developing Fever: What if, instead of mentally processing hundreds [...]
Finally, you can have subscription calendars sync with your iPhone/iTouch using OS 3.0 and MobileMe. Open iCal In the Calendar list, under Subscriptions, Control-click (or right-click) the calendar you want to copy to your iPhone or iPod touch In the menu that appears, select “Copy URL to Clipboard” Compose an email message to yourself (to [...]
Seems like I have seen quite a few posts about fonts used for programming in the last few days. Part of that simply might be in response to Apple’s announcement of Menlo, a replacement for the Mac’s defacto monospaced font dating all the way back to System 6, Monaco. Taking that one step further, Hive [...]
For all those out there thinking of upgrading to WordPress 2.8, you definitely should. The built in upgrade process introduced in 2.7 makes upgrading a breeze, and with the speed improvements, rewritten widget engine and management, and the theme browser, 2.8 is a nice upgrade indeed. As always, make sure to make a backup of [...]
For MobileMe users out there, Apple has announced a nice addition to your iPhone available with the iPhone OS 3.0 update as a free app from the App Store. You will have access to all the files on your iDisk on the go. Features such as sharing are available, and you’ll even be able to [...]
I updated to the final version of Safari 4 released during yesterday’s WWDC 2009 Keynote and came to a shocking discovery: turns out that the tabs that were controversially placed on top in the window’s titlebar have now moved back to their previous location below the toolbar. I’m slightly upset about this for two reasons. [...]
I wanted to congratulate the engineers at Apple for dishing out some well deserved awards this year. The top 3 applications winning awards in the Mac showcase category were Versions, Things, and Billings 3. All of these apps are simply astounding. I use Billings 3 for my freelance work and I save a lot of [...]