- Dave Hyatt is soliciting suggestions on Safari’s user interface. As I write this, there are 526 comments, most of which either ask for
tabbed browsing
or link to this mockup of Safari MultiPage View. I put in my two cents about supporting thetitleattribute to allow authors to specify tooltips for everything (but especially images, links, and form elements). This is such a fundamental usability feature, I didn’t realize how much it mattered to me until I tried Safari and didn’t get them. - AdAware 6 is out.
The morning-after pill for the Internet
. Indeed. Moving to another operating system is the safest choice in the long run (which realistically means a Free Software operating system, unless you’re willing to buy all new hardware), but this is a required stop-gap measure for those of us stuck on Windows for whatever reason. (SpyBot Search & Destroy is a similar product which is also actively maintained.) - Adam Kalsey: SimpleComments plugin for Movable Type.
SimpleComments is a new plugin that will let you do just this: comments and Trackbacks are merged into a single list. Comment counts include the number of TrackBack pings, and best of all, you don’t need to learn new MT tags in order to do this.
- BusinessWeek: New York Times’ Web Site Plans Print-Like Ad Format.
NYTimes.com is striking out on its own with an individual format at a time when many online publishers are stressing the importance of offering advertisers a standard package of ad formats, so that one ad can easily run on many sites. Mr. Krebs says NYTimes.com is also committed to industry standards and that other publishers are welcome to use the new format.
We’re so committed to industry standards, we’re creating our own! I’m making that my new tagline. - Tabbrowser Extensions for Mozilla.
- Mac OS X Hints: An early review of iMovie 3.
It is now possible for a Mac user with a fast machine to create beautiful Video CDs in faster than real time.
Amazing! I’ve always wanted to work faster than real time. - Gordon Byrnes: Safari Enhancer.
Among the things enabled are a debugging menu that allows you to do such things as enabling keyboard and mouse shortcuts, changing what browser Safari identifies itself as, and changing how Safari handles Security. Safari also lets you specifiy a minimum font size, as well as allowing you to turn off underlines on links and handling direct bookmark importing from Netscape, Internet Explorer, Chimera, Mozilla, OmniWeb, and iCab.
- BBC: First notes for 639-year composition.
[As Slow As Possible] was originally a 20-minute piece for piano, but a group of musicians and philosophers decided to take the title literally and work out how long the longest possible piece of music could last. … “We, a group of theologians, musicologists, philosophers, composers and organists, met during a couple of years solely to discuss this question.”
No sense rushing it. - Dennis Mahoney: Why Won’t You Leave Me Alone?
Yes. You’re right. Transitional effects will make this presentation sing.
- Paul Ford: Kiki, the Legendary Goatrilla.
All hail the Benevolent Goat Masters!
Do you always use Movable Type on a 1024 x 768 screen? Add this CSS rule at the end of your
/mt/styles.cssfile:textarea.width500 { width: 786px; }- Kevin Fanning: #12 - #3.
Who is this loser Katie Raygun? She sux! What happened to kfan?
Which leads us to #2:the thing is, you are always just as ready as you will ever be.
Which leads us to #1: Raimi. Congratulations, kfan. - Michael McAllister: I am not DogPoet.
… she won’t let him send the cameraman away and he says “Right, well, what’s the point of living if you’re not on camera?” (He was being sarcastic. Just FYI)
- Apparently, I’ve become wizened and angry in my old age. And I’m only 30! Just wait ’til I have kids!
