Last month, my brother and his wife got us a new toaster. Our toaster was old and crusty, but it had a simplicity that I liked. It had a dial for temperature and “toast” lever. You pressed the toast lever and when you heard the bell, BING, the toast was done. It was a small…
Jack Slocum just pointed out a new EXT application called Filespots. This is interesting on many levels. Just from the homepage you can see how they have mirrored the exact Vista windows explorer user experience. The nice folks at Filespots were kind enough to give me a username and password. I immediately started to check…
I recently red an article on Ajaxian about a Craigslist Mashup. Take a look at this thing. This is awesome. I can’t stop using it. It’s so much better than craiglist by itself. It gives the google map, and remembers the last bunch of views. The thing I don’t like is the visual design. It’s…
A new version of the jQuery Easing Plugin has been released. On the one hand, it’s still the best plugin ever. On the other hand, they changed all the names. Now they are a little more “techie”. easeInCirc, easeInOutSine. Am I supposed to know what that means? I am sure there is some math involved. …
In my never-ending project to upgrade Katie to the latest greatest technology, I have come up against an old piece of software. Microsoft Outlook 2007. The time has come to retire this vestige of 20th century programming. The thick client must go! Thin Web client must come in. Gmail is providing the Email part. Google…
Updated Once Latest Greatest (8/27/08) I have been working on an email template to use for a future design tool. Emails, if you don’t know, are not as easy to design as web pages. They are viewed in a wider variety of clients. Some of these clients are downright evil. I feel like I have…
I finally lost my patience with LunarPages. The downtime was just getting out of control. I put down $95 and got a Bluehost subscription (12 months). Lunarpages made me wait 10-30 minutes for their technical support and then refused to do anything about it. The intermittent failures were just unbearable. I am going to switch…
http://mike.teczno.com/img/right-triangles/RightTriangles.swf Grab the fingers with your mouse and walk the image across the page. No real world usefulness, but it’s sure fun.
WordPress 2.3 is out. I downloaded it and upgraded. Bam! I was going to wait for the fantastico upgrade, but decided to just push the envelope. The upgrade process is so smooth and pain free. I really have to hand it to those guys, this is a great product. I admit I haven’t used all…
Ethan’s teacher, Mr. Fidner has this posted on the classroom wall. He also has pictures of inspirational people like John Lennon and Ghandi. I like Mr. Fidner. I consider myself a crazy one. Here’s to the crazy ones.The misfits.The rebels.The troublemakers.The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.They’re not fond…
Another great find! Check out this plugin for WordPress to manage categories with Ajax. I have a few hundred uncategorized posts from before I knew to manage them. I have always been hesitant to deal with them. Now, with this plugin, it’s finally fast enough to deal with! Hooray! I am having a good technology…
Just what I wanted for the holidays! As previously blogged, I had been having trouble with the latest versions of WordPress because they switched from Latin to UTF-8 character set. I found a fix, which basically said, “Leave it as Latin”. But finally, I found a 1-step UTF-8 Converter Plugin. GENIUS!! It didn’t just work…
I recently received a comment that said my sprites were breaking in Opera and Safari 2. I don’t have a mac, so I can’t test Safari 2, only 3. Safari 3 works fine. I checked my Google Analytics to see how many people used Opera and it turns out to be around 3%. So I…
I recently have been working on a new API Browser for jQuery. It’s been a pet project in the back of my mind for some time. I thought I could create a better mousetrap, if only I could get over the programming hump. So finally, last week, I took a few tentative steps forward. First,…