This site was taking too long to load (each page is dynamically generated by the server), so I moved the “Friends” listing from the left column of the front page to the “About” page.
Hopefully everything will be a little bit more responsive (the front page takes about 1/2 as much time to load now).
WebMaster View raises a couple interesting points about the question a lot of people ask: ‘Why Blog’?
People like to hear what you think. People like opinions. People like to learn.
…Write with passion and everything else will fall into place.
??Via: Paul Scrivens via WebMaster View??
A neat trick in iTunes 4.5 that changes the little arrows next to each artist/album/title to search your library for that string instead of the iTunes Music Store.
Pop open terminal and input this command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES
??Via: Justin Williams??
Ben Fry made this neat thing called zipdecode that visually ‘decodes’ zip codes as you type them. It’s pretty neat because it shows you the logic that the post office had when assigning zip codes to different geographic locations. If nothing else, it’s something you could waste a couple minutes with. And it might be handy if you want to lookup where someplace is.
Daniel Vine came up with a remote browser-testing service so that those of us without Windows PC’s can test to make sure our websites look ok.
I checked this webpage out and while it’s not necessarily the prettiest thing (I forgot how horrible font handling was in Internet Explorer), it at least works.
Update: I just found out that this is the same guy who made the ever-so-cool iCapture, a similar program that shows how webpages look under Mac browsers.
Brad Choate opened up his Applications Folder showing the world what apps he uses on a regular basis.
I thought I’d just append a couple to the list:
Just a reminder that tomorrow is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s.
I hope y’all enjoy your free ice cream!
I mentioned this before in one of my Link Dumps but I had to bring it up again.
I mean, how cool is this:
A guy went and spent a good portion of his $2500 meal plan on bottles of Pepsi just for the free songs that Apple was giving away in their Pepsi iTunes Music Giveaway.
It’s too bad that he didn’t drink any of the Pepsi either. I’d at least go for the Diet—it’s definitely drinkable.
In one of the funnier remakes of the Star Wars Kid video, somebody merged the footage with scenes from Kill Bill (vol 1 and 2).
Via: Boing Boing
I can’t figure out why iChat is so slow nowadays. The window is unresponsive and takes a couple of seconds to do anything like scrolling or focusing the window. This is unacceptable to me. I’ve tried rebooting with no avail. It might be because I have a large number of contacts, but even so this is unacceptable given that I own a top of the line PowerMac.
Does anybody have any idea, or will I be forced to switch to Adium which is looking quite stable and feature rich at the moment.
Brad Froehle 