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Getting back at a scammer: The Powerbook Prank

By Emile • Mar 21st, 2006 • Category: General, Noteworthy, WWW

Masterful… absolutely masterful…



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…



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.



FileMaker vs. Access

By Emile • Jan 10th, 2006 • Category: General, Noteworthy

The debate has been longstanding in the FileMaker community about how FM is substantially better and easier than Access. I’m not here to rehash a seemingly silly and hardly useful flame war, but with the pending (a year from now can be considered pending for Microsoft ) release of Office 12, FileMaker Inc, […]



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 […]



More Privacy On Your OS X Machine

By Emile • Mar 6th, 2005 • Category: General, Noteworthy

Tired of ads from places like doubleclick and such? Put a blocking proxy into play to stop it. Setting up a proxy server is now easy and free.
I recently came across a decent little freeware proxy called Privoxy. This wonderful little piece of Open Source Software even comes in an OS X distribution. Install […]