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Archive for May, 2006

Secret Weapon Notes: Volume 5

By Emile • May 26th, 2006 • Category: General

Yahoo Small Business Insights has a great intro article to Getting Started with Site Building. It’s great for all of those stubborn clients who want to put the entire site in caps.
Acid-etched, stainless steel, oil-lamp projectors really couldn’t be any cooler
The View Source Chart Firefox extension looks to be a useful tool for breaking […]



Some nifty Google web search features

By Emile • May 21st, 2006 • Category: General

In fiddling with Google’s Da Vinci Code search, I discovered that Google
can perform currency as well as unit calculations/conversions in addition to a slew of other features.
You can read more about it here: http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator



24+ Hours After The Apple Store Fifth Avenue Opening

By Emile • May 20th, 2006 • Category: General

So I came, I went, and I almost, almost bought. The draw of Apple’s new store is quite magnetic. In this interview on CNBC, Jobs goes behind a tad of the history of the store and onto current Apple products, AMD chips, the iPhone, and more. Hit the Play button below:

Some History

767 […]



I’m broke but Michael Heilemann is not

By Emile • May 20th, 2006 • Category: General

maybe even piss-poor broke, but apparently Michael Heilemann of Binary Bonsai and K2 fame is freaking rich
Follow either of those links and you’ll figure out how rich you are too.



Go get the free FileMaker Technical Resource Kit

By Emile • May 19th, 2006 • Category: General

FileMaker has offered the Technical Resource Kit for quite some time and they’re certainly valuable, AND FREE, and worth downloading. There are three packages available: Foundation Skills, FileMaker Security, and FileMaker Server & Networking.
You can read more and download them here.



Apple Store Fifth Ave Is Primed & Ready To Go [pics]

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

Some of you may not care, but to us NYC folks, this surely kicks ass. Gothamist has pics.



Secret Weapon Notes: Volume 4

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

I really couldn’t have said it any better. Found via Daring Fireball

Yahoo seems to be opening up in the spirit of Google. This Yahoo UI Library is an interesting idea at using “more than 100 CSS-based browser-tested page layouts, available under a generous BSD-style open source license”. In addition, you can read […]



Gas Up For 6-cents A Gallon

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

Dear SWL-readers,
I must apologize. The DNS refresh of scretweaponlabs.com took the site though a digital purgatory over the past couple of days and for all of you that beared through it and came back. I’m sincerely appreciative and would love to offer thanks for your patience.
The following came through to me via email […]



This is a test of the emergency broadcast system…

By Emile • May 15th, 2006 • Category: General

For those who may be following the travails of the site, this is more than a test.  But for you, it may just be a test or nothing at all.



Building A FileMaker Account Management Solution

By Emile • May 15th, 2006 • Category: General

FileMakerAdvisor has recently published a two-part article on building a flexible and customizable FileMaker account management solution that integrates tightly and nicely with FileMaker’s own Accounts and Privilege Set based system.  I’m still experimenting with the technique but you can find both parts below.
Build A User Account System - Part 1
Build A User Account System […]