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Archive for February, 2008

The Stupidest Web Shortcuts

By Emile • Feb 27th, 2008 • Category: Design, Software

Forgive the rant, but who the heck thought of using the Command+Left and Command+Right shortcut for Back and Forward in a web browser (I’m looking at you Firefox)???  I can’t even begin to count the number of times this shortcut has created necktie-in-the-shredder frustration and had me accidentally backing out of a WordPress post or […]



Wil Shipley may be wrong on development

By Emile • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: General

After attentively watching Wil Shipley’s erudite speech at the C4 conference recently, I was struck by his comment at 1:13 stating that users who are usually too cheap to update their Apple software are too cheap to upgrade and/or buy yours?! I’ve been chewing on that thought for two days now, and I’m not […]



Dragonfly Covered With Dew, photo by Martin Amm

By Emile • Feb 7th, 2008 • Category: General

What can I say but WOW:

Found via Neatorama



MAMP is the new LAMP

By Emile • Feb 1st, 2008 • Category: General

I don’t normally like to blabber about random downloads across the internet, but this one has struck my fancy. In place of the standard LAMP configuration of most web servers (Linux Apache MySQL PHP), there is a one-click freeware installer to do all of this on a Mac, thus the acronym MAMP and the […]