Open Mic Night will be every 1st and 3rd Wednesday from July at The Fawcett Inn, Fawcett Road, Portsmouth, UK!
Boot Camp has been upgraded to version 1.1.2. Seems the Mighty Mouse's ball now works properly with this latest update.
This isnt the first time Ive had a rant about Illustrator or Adobe apps in general but as Iv’e been designing some logos in Illustrator this past week and its irked me on a few occasions I thought Id share my most recent disagreements with Illustrator.
Freehand > Illustrator?
Im off to the Mac Expo in Olympia, London on Friday. Maybe Ill see you there.
Expect pics up on my Flickr account when I get back.
London Mac Expo 2006
The iPod is 5 years old today! Uneasy Silence has a video of it's 'birth'.
I this a stupid idea? 'diggthisdesign' - a sort of digg but where people submit and 'digg' website designs rather than links. Or maybe it already exists?
Ive had a tweak of my RSS feeds (mainly because I'd discovered a problem with my current feeds, thanks Brendan) and added Brendan's sig2feed plugin and Steve Smith's Feedburner plugin. This now means that anyone using my regular feed gets redirected to my FeedBurner feed. Ive added some bells and whistles courtesy of FeedBurner - basically my 3 recent Flickr pictures and a daily synopsis of my de.icio.us posts. If you dont like these trinkets just post a comment complaining and Ill happily remove them as I know not everyone appreciates this stuff. Meanwhile, the Atom feed should remain unchanged.
Anyone interested in scifi and podcasts should have a look at Escape Pod - which does sci fi shorts; and Podiobooks - which serialises books into podcasts, and not all of them scifi.
When I had a look at various online feed readers about 8 months ago I dont think Google’s Reader even existed - it’s certainly not been particularly useable up until a few weeks ago.
Google Reader is far more user friendly now, with a clear layout and a clever AJAX (Im guessing) trick where it marks posts as read as you scroll through them. Theres also a neat little bookmark bar ‘Next »’ button which Ive been using a lot lately. It steps you through your unread posts from post to post in the actual web browser, viewing the original site, rather than formatted by and in the feed reader - which is nice.
I just wish I could use it in combination with NetNewsWire in the same way that I do with NewsGator, as I dont think I could move entirely away from NetNewsWire. I tried it with FeedLounge and whilst that is, Id wager, the best web based reader out there, it does cost money and I still had to go back to NetNewsWire after a few months using FeedLounge.
So come on Google and NetNewsWire developers - work together.
Google Reader is more legible
1 year, 9 months old - Monday, October 9th, 2006 mid-afternoon
Tags: ajax, feedreader, googlereader, greader, Web
Not that I ever used it after signing up, but it takes a surprising number of clicks to cancel a MySpace account.
Great corner at the start of this video of the 2006 Chinese GP.