There are several different ways to design a website or a software application. Some people like to start with Photoshop or Illustrator and create the complete design. Others like to start with…
I had to watch this twice to actually get the jokes! If you’ve ever watched the venerable Jim Lehrer of The Newshour With Jim Lehrer, you’ll know this Southern gent is all business. So when he…
Instead of using Apple’s MobileMe account and losing control over your data, you can instead use dotmac for data synchronization and iDisk-like storage space. It requires a machine running either…
iPhone/iPod touch only: Yahoo OneConnect is a free application that brings a handful of communication and social networking tools to your iPhone or iPod touch. Off the bat, the most notable…
Stephen Band:
Parallax turns a selected element into a ‘window’, or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in…
Mac users, and specially the user interface purists among them, have always had a problem with Apple employing various non-standard theme elements in different parts of Mac OS X. In Tiger,…
Not getting the bit transfer rate you used to at home? The New York Times covers how to troubleshoot a slow home network, including rebooting your router and changing the Wi-Fi signal’s…
My thanks to iPodRip for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. iPodRip is a $20 Mac utility that lets you recover songs and playlists from an iPod — so you can use it for tasks like copying music from…
In the August/September issue of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Bulletin, I wrote an article about The Information Architecture Behind Good Web Forms. Here’s a…
So you’ve taken apart that Ikea desk, moved it into your new place, and now have no idea how to get it back together. When the paper manual is long lost, hit up the IKEAFANS’ site…
Sometimes one display just isn’t enough for our myriad multitasking needs. When you don’t have the money to buy a second display, but do happen to have a spare Mac lying around, …
Linux only: Wine 1.0, the first stable release of the Windows API recreation tool, is available for most major Linux distributions. Wine has been focused solely on bug fixes for some time…
Even if you are a regular Firefox user, you still may not know about the advanced…
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