Archive for May, 2005

Sydney Bristow Uses a Mac

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

I always knew there was some reason I liked Sydney Bristow… she uses a Mac! Yup, as evidenced here from season one episode 14 “The Coup”. The image below is the first such proof. In the screenshot below Syd is hacking into a casino surveillance system to change a photo in their facial recognition [...]

End of the Month Statistics

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

Today marks the last day of May so I’ll be gathering monthly website statistics today and tomorrow. Today I’ll be gathering stats regarding my position on the search engines. Tomorrow website traffic statistics.
A popular suggestion for dieters is not to pay too much attention to your daily weight. The body naturally fluctuates a little [...]

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Dashboard - Review

Monday, May 30th, 2005

Prior to obtaining Mac OS X “Tiger” I thought the most valuable feature to me would be Dashboard. After having Tiger purring for a few weeks I must say that I’m not a huge fan of Dashboard… yet.
My first impressions were not very good at all. Dashboard was slow… very slow. From the time [...]

Mac Versus Windows - Ground Rules by David Pogue

Saturday, May 28th, 2005

David Pogue of the New York times published a fantastic article (free membership required) a couple days ago regarding the timeless debate of Windows vs. Mac.
David Pogue lays down five ground rules to the debate. Most people already know which side I’m on, but I’ll try to refrain from injecting my own opinion. [...]

Printing USPS Shipping Labels on Mac - Safari & Firefox

Friday, May 27th, 2005

USPS has changed some of the software they provide for users to print their own shipping labels. The prior software had always worked well for me using Safari. I could purchase and print a shipping label directly from their site. When it came time to print, a java applet would load, process my credit [...]

The 70/20/10 Rule ?

Friday, May 27th, 2005

Okay, so I’m familiar with the 80/20 rule but I’ve now been introduced to the 70/20/10 rule. Apparently in the inner walls of Google the philosophy goes something like this:

70% of your efforts should go to your core product/service
20% to closely related side projects
10% to oddball projects

I’ve taken that and adapted it to my [...]

Alias Season 4 Finale Interrupts Regular Programming

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

The season finale for Alias was on last night… so our regularly scheduled programming will be a little delayed this morning as I continue to wait for my heart rate to drop to normal levels… stay tuned. [ S04E22 Alias 422 ]
Tim Flight
Alias Fan

Inbound Links: Finding Sites to Link to You

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Once people understand the concept of how inbound links can increase your search engine rank, the next question comes “How do I find sites to link to me?” Does your industry have any association websites? Are you a member of a chamber of commerce that includes links? Soon people exhaust the more obvious potential linkers [...]

Review: Xyle Scope - Mac Browser, Source Code Viewer, CSS Viewer, Web Multi-Tool

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

I just picked up a copy of Cultured Code’s Xyle Scope application. It absolutely rocks and is a must have application for any Mac website designer. Any web site designers on other platforms should switch to a Mac just for this application. A quote on their website sums up what is so beautiful about [...]

Review: Navicat MySQL Client - Now Supports SSH Tunnel!

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

Update #2 I’m using Navicat again for several of my MySQL database tasks, and still enjoy the product. They have also changed their upgrade policy so that users are entitled to all minor updates to the same major version. Very cool!
Update: While I still feed Navicat is a great program, their upgrade policy has left [...]