Two essential apps to make Windows a little friendlier: ShortPopUp and ChangeIcon (or here). ShortPopUp is an app you put in the quick launch area of your task bar. It works a lot like the “Apple Menu” under older versions of the MacOS, enabling you to create hierarchical menus to quickly launch pretty much anything. [...]
Some thoughts on religion from jimformation.com, along with a lot of great quotes from Thomas Jefferson (good reading for those who would try to co-opt him).
It’s nice when a film you don’t expect anything from turns out to be good. Such was the case with the last two that I watched, Abandon and 8 Mile. Abandon is the directorial debut of Stephen Gaghan, who made his name for writing the screenplay for one of my favorite films, Traffic. 8 Mile [...]
I’m fairly handy with Adobe Premiere, but we recently got a copy of SonicFoundry’s Vegas, and I’m really impressed with it. It’s especially nice for me since I’m such a fan of Acid (their audio editing app). Vegas is like a lite version of Acid with a really powerful video editing layer on top. It’s [...]
My favorite text editor for Windows is EditPad Pro. Before I was willing to pony up my registration fee, I used EditPad Lite, which contains a good subset of features in the pro version. The makers have ported EditPad Lite to Linux and are in the process of porting the pro version as well. That’s [...]
OpenOffice 1.0.2 is out. Haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, but 1.0.1 was pretty solid. Mozilla 1.3 is out. I’ve been using it at work but haven’t grabbed it at home yet. There are some nice improvements to the email client (’mozilla mail’).
Okay, I still haven’t got my new design rolling, but I have taken a bunch of screenshots for my new design gallery, which should go live very soon, maybe this week. I’ll probably add a new front page to the site that branches it off into the design gallery (for, you know, potential employers) and [...]
Eight years ago today, Gina and I were married at city hall in NYC while there on a spring break vacation. There are no words with which to descibe my pleasure in being able to say that, except perhaps these: [tips glass] here’s to eight more!
Looks like Wrox press and Friends of Ed are going to close down. That’s really too bad. I’ve used books by both of them, and have always been impressed with the quality.
Been surfing a bit with Camino (formerly Chimera) on OS X. Great little browser.
Saw Road to Perdition last night (Sam Mendes’ follow up to American Beauty). Breathtaking.