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Secret Weapon Notes: Volume 8

By Emile • Jun 19th, 2006 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General, WWW

So here’s the eighth volume of Secret Weapon Notes, and I’m reaching out to you readers as to your thoughts on such posts. Are they worthwhile for you? I love them in that they nicely consolidate a diverse and random set of links into a nice digest format and half the time I […]



Who Needs Free Icons? They’re Free Here

By editor • May 9th, 2006 • Category: Design, General, WWW

For those UI designers, tinkerers, and lovers in general, you surely know about Icon Buffet’s free icon service. Basically, they serve up free and fun icons for any kinda of use (personal & commerical), to registered users (registration is free) and expect you to trade them between fellow designers, coders, UI enthusiasts, etc.So for […]



Message In A Bottle

By Emile • Apr 4th, 2006 • Category: General, Noteworthy, WWW

A hat tip to Don Carson Creative - this really is a splendid cartoon!!!

Illustration, Comics, Cartoons, WWW



Who would you want to be?

By Emile • Mar 23rd, 2006 • Category: General, Noteworthy, WWW

So the idea came up from a blog post on MikeIndustries.com and is along the lines of if you could sit with anyone at dinner… So to paraphrase:
Who would you most like to be? And in one sentence, why?
I would maybe add a dimension in asking who would you want to know - after […]



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 […]



Getting back at a scammer: The Powerbook Prank

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

Masterful… absolutely masterful…



This just in…

By Emile • Mar 20th, 2006 • Category: Blogging, Entertainment, General, WWW

I still don’t get podcasting… even the good ones. I find most radio broadcasters stale and unentertaining, and to think that there are more people (thousands, if not millions) that look to enter the fray just kinda boggles me. Podcasts aren’t visual mediums but purely aural ones that depend on not only what […]



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 […]



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 […]



Gmail Tips

By Emile • Feb 27th, 2006 • Category: WWW

A collection of some interesting and noteworthy Gmai tips for those of you fellow Gmailers out there.