Switching from Vienna to NetNewsWire For the last year I’ve been a faithful Vienna user for reading RSS feeds on my mac. It’s a fantastic program: very intuitive, open source and full featured (including tabbed browser, skins for reading feeds, good search tool and AppleScript support). Recently I decided to try NetNewsWire. Now free, but […]
Buffy humour
I watched a bit of Buffy season 2 over lunch and dinner yesterday. I used to have season 2 recorded on VHS from a Fox8 marathon. I have the DVDs now, but hadn’t watched them before. Buffy had just killed Angel, run away, her friends were wondering where she was and the credits rolled. Then… […]
Diving into WordPress 2.5
I’ve almost finished upgrading to WordPress 2.5! It’s cool It’s a pretty exciting upgrade. The admin interface is completely reworked and very pleasant to work with. There’s already a good post, 10 things you need to know about WordPress 2.5, about some of the feature changes. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a bulk edit […]
Google’s new G’day MATE
Check it out! Google has brought out a very cool new product called Google G’day. It uses MATE technology to take the data that the Google bots have spent the last however-many years trawling and some funky, fuzzy prediction parameters to tell you what the internet is going to look like tomorrow. Perhaps some of […]
Wallpaper feature on Smashing Magazine
I was very excited when I heard that my wallpaper would be featured on Smashing Magazine’s April Calendar Wallpaper post! I decided to contain my excitement until the post came out and I could point you to it. There’s some great stuff there. Very cool idea to incorporate a calendar into a wallpaper: it’s practical […]
Top GIMP tutorial sites
After some discussion at Creative Curio I was starting to think that building a site similar to PSDTuts for GIMP tutorials would be cool. I haven’t seen much in the way of GIMP tutorial sites that I really like; except for Meet the GIMP, but video tutorials are different in my mind. Before I go […]
