Category Archives: useful utilities

IE 7 (the script) updated.

I happened across an announcement from a few days back that Dean Edwards had updated his IE7 script:
http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2008/01/ie7-2/
This is a script that Dean created several years ago to make IE6 more standards compliant. It was interesting at the time, but I never got around to using it.
This past week I’ve been dealing with some […]

Joyent Connector: HighRise Alternative GPL’d

Joyent just GPLv2′d Connector - their collaboration suite including; mail, calendar, lists, bookmarks, files, and tagging. I’ve been watching the Connector grow for a year or two now. While it never clicked with me [1], it always felt 1 feature short of being a Highrise - if not Basecamp - killer.
That missing feature was being […]

Recently Divorced Freehand users searching for romance with another Vector application…

Now that Freehand is officially dead I figure it’s time I start playing the field again and look for a new love. Here’s the list of potential candidates I’m aware of. Has anyone had a fling with any of these options? If so, please share your thoughts. And please add any that I’ve missed.

Adobe […]

Nobody Posted about CS3 yet?

Adobe officially Announced CS3 today, but I assume some of us have already had our peek at the new features they were rolling out in new versions of Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, etc. (Sorry Freehand and ImageReady Fans.)
If you managed to miss this somehow:
http://www.adobe.com/creativelicense/
Go ahead and Preorder today, but I don’t think they’ve […]

Batch Image Resizing for Anyone

I had a request today to set up a Sharepoint site on our network to publish photos of internal events. Sharepoint has a rudimentary photo gallery, so we figured that’d suffice. But then we got stuck on adding the right permissions and, well, Sharepoint is never easy.
Anyways, these are typically photos straight of a digital […]

Slicing the Census with Social Explorer

If you’re looking for a way to quickly compare population, unemployment, or say - median household income - check out Social Explorer
Here’s household income based on the 2000 Census - zoomed into the Twin Cities

’tis the season of giving. AND getting…

You a Mac geek? Feel like you should give a bit to charity this season? Do you also feel greedy and want some new toys of your own?
Fulfill both your giving and greedy side by purchasing a MacHeist software bundle. 8 great free applications from independent software developers. And as a bonus, if they raise […]

Image Tricks

I stumbled upon a nifty bit of freeware today: Image Tricks. It’s akin to a version of photoshop that only includes the filters menu. Perhaps more ‘fun’ than ‘useful’ but it’s still worth a download. (For OSX only).
I haven’t been posting many useful utilities lately, feel free to suggest any you’ve come across!

Another Dreamweaver alternative

Yesterday I mentioned RapidWeaver, a HTML editor worth taking a look at. In the past, I’ve mentioned NVU, an open-sourced clone of DreamWeaver. While NVU is nice, it hasn’t been updated in well over a year and is still missing some niceties.
Another new option I just ran across is aptana. Aptana is still in beta, […]

Random Mac links and some odds and ends…

My TiBook 667 finally has been upgraded to a shiny new MacBook. (If anyone is looking for a used TiBook with a few ‘issues’…let me know ;o)
The MacBook is great, and has that nice built-in iSight camera. Fun! Alas, I can’t record any video on it. Why is that? Well, as usual, that feature is […]