August 29, 2005. Junk mail filters have become a standard feature for email applications. RSS readers are a bit different—you have complete control over the feeds you subscribe to, so it seems logical that there’s just no need to filter the data. But I’m not convinced. I subscribe to quite a few feeds. At the moment, 112 of them. I have 3905 unread items, and that’s a nightmare to deal with. I don’t… Read more »
August 29, 2005. AudioScrobbler (now Last.fm) is a very cool site that helps you discover new music and share what you’re listening to with others. You just download a plugin for your music player, and it reports what you’re playing to the site. The site then displays what you’ve listened to recently, as well as what you listen to most. It also gives you musical neighbors—others that share similar music tastes…. Read more »
August 4, 2005. I’ve added my first (publicly available) widget to the Mac Goodies section. The gorgeous icon used for the widget was created by RimshotDesign. Check out the Goodies section over there for some great desktop pictures and icons. The Bluetooth widget was created in an attempt to clean up my menu bar. I had a few icons up there that I just didn’t use often, and on my 12” iBook there’s only… Read more »
June 7, 2005. Often times “404 not found” pages aren’t particularly helpful. They tell you that the page is gone, and not much else. The more tech-saavy know a great trick to help find what you’re after: just lop off a hunk of the URL. Perhaps you had a bookmark saved at this address, for example: http://tenseforms.com/tundra/winter.html You open your bookmark, and sadly, the page no longer exists. But… Read more »
May 17, 2005. As an avid Mac user for 18 years and counting, I figure it’s time I added a Mac OS X section to my journal. I’ve also added a Mac Goodies area to the site, featuring some Automator actions I’ve just created. For the unfamiliar, Automator is a new tool in Mac OS X 10.4, also known as Tiger. Automator is similar to the much older AppleScript technology in that it makes repetitive tasks easier…. Read more »