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 »
April 27, 2005. With the recent design of Holly Tickner’s Tiny Forest, one of the biggest changes was largely unseen. Gone was the bloated, Dreamweaver-generated code, and in its place was streamlined, valid XHTML markup, using CSS for all of the layout (all hand-coded in BBEdit). It’s fairly common knowledge that good markup can improve search engine rankings, but this was a great opportunity to see it first… Read more »