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Firefox 1.5 is out!

By Emile • Nov 30th, 2005 • Category: Design, General, Software

As if you didn’t know! Now go get it… I’ve been using the newer 1.5 version and it certainly is more responsive and has the nice candy of being able to re-order tabs.



37 Signals Shows Commitment To Education Market

By Emile • Nov 19th, 2005 • Category: Design, General, Software, WWW

37Signals and their blog Signal vs. Noise is certainly one of the more interesting blogs around. Fueled by their very buzzed about products (you KNOW what they are right?), the blog receives a fair amount of exposure and feedback thus making it a vibrant and worthwhile discussion forum.
Frankly, I’m inspired by their success. […]



I’m not FileMaker stupid after all

By Emile • Oct 28th, 2005 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General, Software

Thank you, oh thank you! To be quite honest, this is something that has struck me for quite some time and I’m gladly not nuts and another (obviously, VERY smart) FileMaker developer named Mikhail Edoshin has blogged about it.
Nearly as long as FileMaker developers have been adamant on establishing and using naming […]



FileMaker Tooltips As Data Delivery Vehicle?

By Emile • Oct 20th, 2005 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General, Software

I’ve always liked tooltips, the ingenious little popups that fade in and out of existence when users place their mouse cursor over certain hotspots on the screen. Generally, they give you more information about a link or describe the purpose of an obscure icon. And recently, in reading an interview with Shaun Inman […]



For users of FileMaker 7 Server

By Emile • Oct 12th, 2005 • Category: FileMaker, General, Software

The Unofficial Apple Weblog over at tuaw.com has an interesting post on a possible quirk of using FileMaker Server 7 and the ability to backup to a mounted network or external hard drive. The issue may actually be limited to the blog poster, but the solution using AppleScript and folder actions is certainly worth […]



A FileMaker Wishlist

By Emile • Oct 10th, 2005 • Category: FileMaker, General, Software

I’m certain I’m not the only one who has hopes and desires for FileMaker. But without skimming the FileMaker newsgroup, other forums, or being privy to the submissions of suggestions by users to FileMaker, it’s difficult to know exactly what FileMaker users and developers want.
I’ve assembled a list and I’m willing to add more […]



A virus-free Mac is not impossible

By Emile • Oct 1st, 2005 • Category: General, Software, WWW

It beckons the thought that at least some OS X users have a moderate amount of foresight, but it does something that is nearly unheard of in the Windows world: provides free virus protection. As a question though, if there are no Mac viruses, what exactly is it searching/scanning for? The only answer […]



The future of Wordpress?

By Emile • Sep 28th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General, Software, WWW, Wordpress

The future is coming, the question is really what will it be and where will we end up? I’m absolutely fascinated by the progress on Wordpress, the community that has sprouted up around it, its proliferation of web standards, and the future of web apps. Wordpress isn’t the root of things like AJAX, […]



FileMaker 7 is dead. Long live FileMaker 8 !!

By Emile • Sep 5th, 2005 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General, Software

I’m feeling waves of ease as I no longer have to bite my lip on FileMaker 8 because of a big NDA agreement. To my delight and surprise, I was able to preview FileMaker latest incarnation at the NY FileMaker Group meeting two months ago. Software companies always deliver the sales pitch that […]



Slick Point Of Sale systems ??

By Emile • Jul 31st, 2005 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General, Software

Anyone have any good links to intuitive and functional POS systems? I know of ShopkeeperFM and a couple of others whose name I can’t recall, but generally I’m not impressed.