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Archive for April, 2006

Designing the comments section of your blog

By Emile • Apr 27th, 2006 • Category: General

Over at smileycat.com, there’s an interesting showcase of both comment lists and individual comment forms.  Presented in a long gallery format, it makes for a VERY interesting design comparison and highlights some of the funky things people do in their own houses around the web.
The comment form design showcase can be found here.
And the comment […]



Google’s SketchUp Now Free!

By Emile • Apr 27th, 2006 • Category: General

In a great and positive move, Google recently released a new and FREE version of SketchUp. The new application highlights some of the wonderful basic features of SketchUp and lets users build 3D models and render them in a sketch view, as well as add them to Google Earth. There remains a Pro […]



Secret Weapon Notes: Volume 1

By editor • Apr 26th, 2006 • Category: General

I’ve been close to changing the format of the blog, for the better, to enhance the posting frequency quality. But, there more to come on that on a forthcoming post.
In the meantime, discuss:

FileMaker Inc. has released updaters for FileMaker Pro 8, FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced, and FileMaker Pro Server 8. You can get […]



Apple Releases Sick Laptop = Auction to drop my old 17″ G4 from a 10-story roof

By editor • Apr 24th, 2006 • Category: General, Noteworthy

But in case you haven’t yet add Apple’s Hot News RSS to your subscription list or read any other Apple related site for the past 24 hours then you wouldn’t know that Apple has updated their 17″ Powerbook G4 to a 17″ MacBook Pro powered by an Intel chip.
I’m not going to bore you with […]



Getting Google to help you with SEO (for free)

By Emile • Apr 23rd, 2006 • Category: General

In exploring the labs section of Google, I recently uncovered a pretty neat little tool entitled Google Sets (http://labs.google.com/sets).
Lets first discuss the fact that I don’t understand why Google has to use unaliased text in their logo on a page that is hit by who knows how many millions of users. All it is, […]



The Death Of Mac OS 9

By editor • Apr 21st, 2006 • Category: Entertainment, General

I remember this conference most especially for Steve Jobs line to the attending developers:
“It’s not dead for them [Mac users], but it is for you.”



Is this really Origami

By Emile • Apr 18th, 2006 • Category: General

c/o Origami Joel on Flickr…
It’s downright unbelievable!!!



Entering The Animatrix

By Emile • Apr 17th, 2006 • Category: General

Netflix provided a great downtime treat this weekend. I queued and received The Animatrix which was the Wachowski brothers Anime-inspired and homage to Japanese mangas. Cross the cultural divide of how Japanese culture views these movies as art rather than cartoon is both fascinating and enlightening.
The DVD features 9 animated shorts ranging in […]



FileMaker Layout Mode Update

By Emile • Apr 14th, 2006 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General

Just a quick update that if you do not join the Flickr group, you will not be able to view the images in the pool.  In order to view the images WITHOUT joining the Flickr group, go to the following link:
http://flickr.com/photos/84279748@N00/sets/72057594085262702/



Introducing Layout Mode: The FileMaker Layout (flickr) Group & Gallery

By Emile • Apr 13th, 2006 • Category: General, Noteworthy

Back in the say of FileMaker 5, when we were thankful for the new emboss and engrave formatting tool in FileMaker, a website was created called LayoutMode.com
I don’t know who started this site, but the premise was simple and beautiful enough: if you design it, people will come to see it. It was created […]