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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 […]



Introducing InBloom, a new application from SWL

By Emile • Sep 11th, 2007 • Category: FileMaker, General, InBloom, Software

InBloom is the first-ever complete shop solution made to organize your store and run on your Mac, PC, or both. It’s the only inventory management, point of sale, check printing, contact & buyer management, and more solution that is networkable and customizable. You can use and create the sexiest reports & receipts you’ve ever seen, share data and network computers with multiple users, and it doesn’t require a whole technology staff to run. All you need is your computer and a printer.



Recovering FileMaker Passwords

By Emile • Jul 3rd, 2006 • Category: FileMaker, General, Software

For those who don’t know, Filemaker offers password and file recovery services in case you ever need to repair a version 7 or 8 file.  But recently, I learned of a tool careof Passware.com and LostPassword.com, called FileMaker Key. The tool resets passwords to any FileMaker file, though version 8, to an 8-character string.  […]



Zephoria on ‘Youth Speak or Web 2.0 Company?’

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

As per Zephoria.org :
When did “q” gain the right to replace “k”? Or “ew” sounds be represented with 3+ “o”s? And since when is “z “such a popular letter in English? And why are we dropping “e”s? And how did words get dots in them?!?!
People often complain to me about the youth speak that i […]



Google ≠ Netscape ???

By Emile • Mar 19th, 2006 • Category: Design, General, Software, WWW

I had proposed the idea that Google was becoming the new Netscape, on the heels of news that Google had acquired Writely and MeasureMap, and later learned that they had also acquired @Last Software, makers of the fun-yet-powerful Sketchup.
But in a seemingly odd cue of events, I stumbled upon a couple of articles that talk […]



More about XP on a Mac

By Emile • Mar 18th, 2006 • Category: Design, General, Software

For those who are less-enthusiastic or just don’t care about XP on Apple hardware, you may find company with other readers of the TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog). In the poll results pictured above, it a fair number of Mac users are indifferent to the possible presence of XP on Apple. For […]



A little post can go a long way.

By Emile • Mar 10th, 2006 • Category: FileMaker, General, Software, WWW

There are so many things wandering on my blogging plate that I’m going to let you see them all and sort the chocolatey goodness from the creamy nougat by yourselves:

I’m an Encouraging Creator c/o Personal DNA
FileMaker officially runs under Rosetta, while FileMaker Server does not (both of these statements obviously apply to running the software […]



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.



FileMaker 8 Developer Certification Is Here

By Emile • Jan 27th, 2006 • Category: FileMaker, General, Software

For those not “in-the-know”, and looking to perhaps up ramp their recognition in the FileMaker indutstry as a FileMaker expert, then look no further. You can now be certified for the version 8 toolset of FileMaker products which can offer recognition, reward, and competitive advantage.
There are several benefits to becoming FileMaker certified and you […]



Google, Gmail, and the Delete Button

By Emile • Jan 27th, 2006 • Category: Design, General, Software, WWW

Google idealism of “do no evil”, while admirable, is still not necessarily practical. What I mean by that is that Gmail users like myself have contended with the fact that Google thought, in their original release of Gmail, that 1gig of space is so profuse and excessive that users would never really need to […]