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Archive for May, 2005

The Saga Is Complete

By Denis • May 30th, 2005 • Category: General

More to come on that



PalmOne Seemingly Gets It Right… Finally!

By Emile • May 28th, 2005 • Category: Design, General

It’s been too long, but finally it seems PalmOne has gotten their act together and ironed out the issues and staleness with the Palm Pilot product line. With the addition of a 4gig drive, it seems like a great little device to use as a PDA and file-transfer bucket. It’s even Mac-compatible (hey […]



Stop Ashlee Simpson: Pretty Funny!

By Emile • May 24th, 2005 • Category: General

There’s nothing to say but, go click on this link:
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?StopAsh



Functionality Apple Forgot

By Emile • May 20th, 2005 • Category: Design, General

Finally! Somehow, I stumbled upon (using the StumbleUpon FireFox extension - no pun intended) a site listing various greast OS X menubar items. As I scanned through the full lot, recognizing favorites like Meteo and MenuMeters, I noticed two particular apps that caught my attention:

1. iTunesRating
2. Deviant
Deviant’s description of “Link your desktop to […]



Plugin Mania

By Emile • May 18th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General, Wordpress

I’ve been installing and testing plugins all over to further customize the blog until I feel it’s up to par. Consider these the corporate sponsorships!

Chris J. Davis’ Rate-It plugin - adds some sweetness and personality
IImage Browser - an AWESOME way to manage image uploads for and Wordpress writer
MonthChunks
Customizable Comment Listings
Super Archives - I can’t […]



Humming along with Tiger…

By Emile • May 18th, 2005 • Category: Design, General

Oh druther, so I seemed to be a bit of a pessimist when it came to gripes about whether or not to install Panther. Truth be told, I’ve had no problems running the full suite of applications I usually sport: Office X.2004, FileMaker 6/7, Photoshop 7, Macromedia Suite 2004, Suitcase x1. I haven’t […]



SWL goes down ! Relax, not for long…

By Emile • May 16th, 2005 • Category: General

but it did temporarily cause worldwide panic. The ensuing riots and protests could only be qwelled by my public speech, soothing the masses to return to their normal everyday lives.
Umm actually, there were some registrar problems which rendered the site unaccessable for the 13th and a little of the 14th. Regardless, it has […]



FireFox Security Holes

By Emile • May 9th, 2005 • Category: General

“It seems Mozilla’s Firefox, the undisputed darling of the alternative browser set, isn’t immune after all to the slings and arrows suffered by other popular interfaces.”
On Saturday the Greyhats Security Group punctured the browser’s aura of invincibility after it released details of two flaws that allow a malicious site to execute arbitrary code.
The advisory explains […]



Tiger reboot - 10.4 here I come

By Emile • May 8th, 2005 • Category: Design, General

Any new writeups may come to a halt as I’ve spent the day backing up most of the SWL systems to, alas, install Tiger. Cough, cough … almost contrary to what I said earlier.
Everytime I step in to the Soho Apple Store, I can’t help but think of the Apple Retail VP who said […]



Elvgren-ed out!

By Emile • May 6th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General

I’ve switched the default theme for the blog back to the Kubrick-based default. This mostly has to do with having seen enough of Elvgren’s ladies. You can still preview the theme using the by clicking here.
From a UI perspective, the random image script is great but tends to wear and […]