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Archive for February, 2006

Dick Cheney and his “aimless” head

By Emile • Feb 28th, 2006 • Category: Design, General

This is just too ridiculous (as in funny):
February 28, 2006 - JUST when Dick Cheney thought it was safe to rear his “aimless” head, someone goes and immortalizes the veep’s quail-hunting mishap in an action figure. HeroBuilders.com yesterday launched a “You Don’t Know Dick” doll, complete with shotgun, scowl and “retractable-spike kick shoes” - just […]



Gmail Tips

By Emile • Feb 27th, 2006 • Category: WWW

A collection of some interesting and noteworthy Gmai tips for those of you fellow Gmailers out there.



The Microsoft iPod

By Emile • Feb 27th, 2006 • Category: Design, Entertainment, General, WWW

While working on some more serious and less frivolous posts, I came across this post at The Unofficial Apple Weblog - the video is hysterical, but the veracity of the punchline is alarming. Hit play and see for yourself:



Adobe Lightroom Beta 2 is out

By Emile • Feb 14th, 2006 • Category: General, Photography, Software

Adobe’s effort to engage the professional photography community with a new tool is now reaching the second version of the public beta. You can read more and download it here.



The ultimate FileMaker desire… currently.

By Emile • Feb 14th, 2006 • Category: General

It just occurred to me: consolidation of a pre-7 multi-file solution into one nice and neat single-file/multi-table solution. This task is still FAR TOO cumbersome and quite frankly, just a pain in the ass. And there is simply no reason for it.
Illustrator and other professional apps always painlessly upgrade your original files to […]



Don’t buy flowers… make them!

By Emile • Feb 8th, 2006 • Category: General, Noteworthy

Save your money this Valentines day and maybe show a little creativity…



The best way to learn XHTML??

By Emile • Feb 7th, 2006 • Category: General, WWW

Anyone have any ideas on the best way to learn XHTML? This coming from a partly self-reformed former HTML tables kind of guy. Books, links, etc. are all welcome.
Thanks!



One of the coolest business cards I’ve ever seen

By Emile • Feb 7th, 2006 • Category: Design, General, Noteworthy

I can’t put it better than that. See what I mean.



Why Blog?

By Emile • Feb 6th, 2006 • Category: Blogging, Entertainment, General

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
- Nora Ephron (in The Huffington Post)
I looked at that and just thought: Wow!
Would it be fair to answer the question: “Because I Can.”
I try not to take large political stabs at anyone really on this space of the web, there are more […]



v6: This is your iLife…

By Emile • Feb 6th, 2006 • Category: General

So after giving myself the time and space to play with iLife, I’m happy to say I’m impressed. It is a solid upgrade but one that will not be necessary for all users. There is something for everyone.
iPhoto
On my PoweBook G4, 1Ghz with 1g of RAM and a photo library of 7400 images […]