Ah the glory of technology: get classic SBemails on your computer or iPod automatically, all via a simple RSS feed.
I, being the Apple nerd that I am, have it setup in iTunes.
Check it out, no really, check it out.
The Adobe-sponsored Travel Abroad Program tour continues, this time with the wife getting in on the act.
Est-ce que n’importe qui parle français?
The Adobe-sponsored Travel Abroad Program has kindly decided to sponsor my ambitions to travel more. As proof of my first journey, I provide the following photograph:
Perhaps a tripod and self-timer are in order.
For the one or two of you OS X users that check this blog from time to time and usually do so with Safari, please allow me to introduce you to Shiira. What is Shiira, you ask? A better web browser, I say.
Shiira is built on top of WebCore, the engine that runs Safari. This means that if the pages you usually browse load fine in Safari, they will look, act, and render fine in Shiira, too. So why use it? The subtleties, that’s why.
Tabs are pretty standard in modern browsers these days, but why won’t Safari let me re-arrange them the way I want? No idea. Shiira to the rescue; I can drag my tabs around in any ol’ order I want. Yippy. That alone is worth the price of change (which is free, by the way). But there are other subtle touches in Shiira that make this a worthwhile browser. Instead of opening links in new windows, I can have all links open in new tabs (that’s why we have tabs, right?). When I close a tab, instead of showing me the next tab over from where I was, Shiira takes me back to the tab that I was on previously. How freakin’ cool is that. Shiira gets me. Dig it.
Other subtleties are nice, too. The interface is not metallic. The interface is much smaller and less cluttered. There is a little button on the tab bar to allow me to add a new tab for those like my father who have no idea how I work such magic (Apple - T still does the job). It allows me to use my bookmarks from Safari. The download manager is handled in the sidebar instead of that stupid little window that opens and stays open in Safari.
Shiira does present a few limitation that sort of drive me nutty. My in-browser spell checker is gone. Safari’s bookmark manager is the best I’ve seen and Shiira’s sidebar is a poor excuse. The sidebar does not automatically close when I’m done with it.
Overall, Shiira is a great alternative to Safari and offers plenty of reasons to set it as the default browser in OS X (which, interestingly enough, you must do in Safari preferences - go figure). All two of you should check it out.
xBox 360’s going for thousands on eBay? May I respectfully say:
you’re all freakin’ IDIOTS!
Have you checked out this podcasting stuff yet? Me == totally addicted. My wife and I used to struggle for the remote control anywhere there was cable because I wanted to watch Leo Laporte on the now defunct TechTV and she, well, didn’t. Now, armed with iTunes 4.9, I have all of Leo’s podcasts at my fingertips anytime I need a good nerdly fix.
So this post is nothing more at an attempt to syndicate a podcast for my own learning. The podcast itself is easy to make; the bugger is getting it setup so anyone can find it an listen to it. I guess we’ll see if it works, no?
Enjoy, and try to not be too offended.
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