Rants, Raves, Reviews, Criticisms

31Jan Fonts

Anyone know of a really good program that will let me convert like 5000+ fonts from PC to MAC format. If I get that PB I’m gonna need my fonts!

31Jan Apple’s one-button mouse

Why apple makes a one-button mouse.

31Jan Enhancing Site Searching

An important part of an information architect’s job is to make it easier for users of a Web site or intranet to find the information they want. Usually the focus is on site navigation—the site’s structural design, hierarchy, page titles and labels, menu design, site map, and so on.
Another way to address making information on [...]

30Jan PowerBook G5 teaser?

Alright conspiracy theorists, time to figure out why exactly this little bit of HTML is buried in the source code at http://www.apple.com/powerbook/ :

<!—BEGIN AVENUE A—>
< img height = ”1” width = ”1” alt = ”” src = ”http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g5_powerbook” >
<!—END AVENUE A—>

Either we’re through the looking glass, people, or someone at Apple has [...]

30Jan Help Me Buy a Mac

Ok, so I’m interested in purchasing a PowerBook, but I’m SHORT on funds, so if you’d be so kind as to help me out

24Jan The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks

If you’ve been on any Web design mailing lists or forums in the last year or so, you will have heard (seen?) the anguished cry “I hate CSS!” Most often it’s from an experienced Web designer, frustrated by the lack of cross-browser support for CSS, lamenting the broken rendering of a site’s design.
Is this you? [...]

24Jan Wireless power

Mobileread.com is reporting that wireless power recharging of mobile devices may become commercially available by the end of this year. Various recently filed patents by Cambridge UK-based Splashpower Ltd. indicate how close the company is in realizing this technology.
Link

24Jan Mac Mini

Macworld has the first hands-on review of the new Mac mini along with nicely illustrated step-by-step dissection. It looks like the mini comes apart easily and (unsuprisingly) uses standard notebook components: a Panasonic DVD-R drive on ‘SuperDrive’ equipped models, Seagate Momentus 2.5″ notebook ATA-100 hard drive and a single, nicely accessible 184 pin DDR DIMM [...]

23Jan Two-thirds of net users could walk away from search-engines

Pew has just released an amazing-looking study on Internet search behavior. Two factoids from the exec summary left my jaw hanging:
Nearly half of searchers use a search engines no more than a few times a week, and two-thirds say they could walk away from search engines without upsetting their lives very much….
Only 38% of users [...]

23Jan Msn messeger

Its down when you need it