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Archive for September, 2005

Lets all go deaf

By Emile • Sep 30th, 2005 • Category: General, Music

In keeping pulse on Apple, you will no doubt, continue to hear about the recent dispute brewing between Apple and music companies seeking to kill the 99¢ price on iTunes for all songs. It’s easy to follow on the NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, MacWorld, PlaylistMag, and I’m sure a slew of other publications. […]



New official REALbasic forum

By Emile • Sep 30th, 2005 • Category: General, WWW

In case anyone missed out, REAL Software has announced the public release of their new forum at http://forums.realbasic.com/. This is a great idea and one I’ve pondered for ages. You’d think with the proliferation of cheap PCs, Linux, and the free phpBB package that this would have happened a while ago. […]



The future of Wordpress?

By Emile • Sep 28th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General, Software, WWW, Wordpress

The future is coming, the question is really what will it be and where will we end up? I’m absolutely fascinated by the progress on Wordpress, the community that has sprouted up around it, its proliferation of web standards, and the future of web apps. Wordpress isn’t the root of things like AJAX, […]



FileMaker 8 Server Released

By Emile • Sep 26th, 2005 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General

FileMaker Inc announced the release of version 8 of FileMaker Server, inline with the recent upgrade of the FileMaker product line. What I’m most interested to learn of is how this performs on multi-processor systems relative to single processor systems and if we can theoretically setup a RAID of Mac Minis to be multi-processor […]



Spotlight redux: Building a FileMaker Search Engine

By Emile • Sep 24th, 2005 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General, Noteworthy

This technique isn’t a lifesaver, but it could be. People have been asking and I will be showing have already shown it to the NY FileMaker Pro User Group, so here it comes in a nutshell for all the other users and developers:
It’s a global field in the header part of a layout, and […]



Securing Mac OS X Tiger

By Emile • Sep 23rd, 2005 • Category: General, WWW

An informative article passed through the ‘Labs recently c/o Stephen de Vries via Slashdot, who mentions a whitepaper, privided by Corsaire, on securing Mac OS X Tiger. It’s an informative read and I recommend taking the time to read/scan it. Some of it is not new, but it is certainly useful nonetheless. […]



I Concur: “Embrace The Scroll”

By Emile • Sep 22nd, 2005 • Category: Design, Elvgren, General, Taft, WWW, Wordpress

Echoing the rebirth of thought in web design, I read (along with much of the rest of the design blogosphere apparently) an interesting if somewhat controversial postulate in web design: “Embrace the scroll”
A Brief History
For those not privy to the discussion, after the initial revolution in web design when pages/sites went from LOOOOOOONG pages of […]



“The fat lady has sung” aka Opera is FREE!

By Emile • Sep 20th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General, WWW

In case you haven’t read around the web yet, that not-so-oft mentioned other web browser is now free and is, at the very least worth, a download and a run. I am, of course, talking about Opera, so go download it.
Your thoughts on the Opera interface would be appreciated as comments, there are things […]



Testing K2

By Emile • Sep 12th, 2005 • Category: Design, Elvgren, General, Taft, WWW, Wordpress

No matter what most of us think or say, the Kubrick theme and its relevance to Wordpress can’t be easily ignored. Due credit to Michael, over at his site Binary Bonsai, who has elevated the blogging artform hand-in-hand with Wordpress. Kubrick’s second revision known as K2, is no-less important and just as clean, […]



“Help, I Need Somebody”

By Emile • Sep 7th, 2005 • Category: Design, General

Cliché? Yes, but it helps lay the question on how users figure their way out of SNAFUS in applications they use.
There are loads of different ways of presenting a Help Section to users of a website or application. While there are a number of options on Windows for authoring Help modules, predominantly including […]