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Yahoo OneConnect Brings Free SMS to Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download]

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:35:25 -0400

Yahoo OneConnect Brings Free SMS to Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download]: 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…

jParallax

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:26:16 -0400

jParallax:

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…

iLeopard kicks Aqua out of Mac OS X and restores consistency

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:24:38 -0400

iLeopard kicks Aqua out of Mac OS X and restores consistency: 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,…

Troubleshoot a Slow Home Network [Wi-Fi]

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:15:39 -0400

Troubleshoot a Slow Home Network [Wi-Fi]: 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…

iPodRip

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:15:41 -0400

iPodRip: 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…

The Information Architecture Behind Good Web Forms

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:09:03 -0400

The Information Architecture Behind Good Web Forms: 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…

http://www.windmeadow.com/node/38

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:36:54 -0400

http://www.windmeadow.com/node/38

http://rasterweb.net/raster/code/src/gmailpop_pl.txt

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:28:03 -0400

http://rasterweb.net/raster/code/src/gmailpop_pl.txt

Download That Ikea Manual [Furniture]

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:33:17 -0400

Download That Ikea Manual [Furniture]: 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…

ScreenRecycler lets you turn another Mac into a second display

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:42:47 -0400

ScreenRecycler lets you turn another Mac into a second display: 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, …

Wine 1.0 Runs Hundreds of Windows Apps Flawlessly [Featured Linux Download]

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:56:17 -0400

Wine 1.0 Runs Hundreds of Windows Apps Flawlessly [Featured Linux Download]: 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…

12 Hidden Firefox Settings

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:23:30 -0400

12 Hidden Firefox Settings:

With the Firefox Download Day almost over, there is likely to be a whole load of new Firefox users as of today.

Even if you are a regular Firefox user, you still may not know about the advanced…

Discover which programs prevent disk image ejection

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:09:52 -0400

Discover which programs prevent disk image ejection: One of my least-favorite error messages is the one that says a volume can’t be ejected because it is in use. The vague advice to “try quitting applications” often leads me on a wild goose chase —…

Setting up an SSH Tunnel

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:49:06 -0400

ssh -L :localhost:

An Interview With 280 North on Objective-J and Cappuccino

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:05:02 -0400

An Interview With 280 North on Objective-J and Cappuccino:

Ajaxian has an (audio) interview with the team at 280 North regarding (a) Objective-J, their Objective-C-like superset of JavaScript, and (b) Cappuccino, their Cocoa-inspired web app framework.

The Machine That Changed the World

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:04:14 -0400

The Machine That Changed the World:

Andy Baio of Waxy, Simon Willison, and Jesse Legg have tracked down and digitized a 1992 documentary The Machine That Changed the World, a tour of computing before the Web:

The Machine…

Meerkat: simplified SSH tunneling

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:32:44 -0400

Meerkat: simplified SSH tunneling:

Filed under: Software, Security

I would wager that most of the people who know they need an SSH tunnel also know the Terminal commands to make it happen. But if those people happen to…

Senuti Copies Music from Your iPhone or iPod Touch to Your Mac [Beta Beat]

Thu, 29 May 2008 21:04:33 -0400

Senuti Copies Music from Your iPhone or iPod Touch to Your Mac [Beta Beat]: Mac only: The newest beta release of previously mentioned Senuti—a utility that copies music from your iPod to your computer—now supports the iPhone and iPod touch. Just install…

Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs

Thu, 29 May 2008 21:04:33 -0400

Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs: Effective web design doesn’t have to be pretty and colorful — it has to be clear and intuitive; in fact, we have analyzed the principles of effective design in our previous posts. However, how…

InformIT: Interview with Aaron Hillegass > Interview with Aaron Hillegass

Thu, 29 May 2008 01:27:26 -0400

InformIT: Interview with Aaron Hillegass > Interview with Aaron Hillegass: Scott Stevenson interviews Aaron Hillegass about the new edition of Aaron’s book, programmers’ fear of the NIB file, and why there aren’t more Macs in corporate America.