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Thursday, April 10th, 2008

On Twitter

I’m realizing that Twitter has given my blog a new lease on life. Making my tweets display on the front page definitely keeps the blog more on my mind since I use twitter and twitterific heavily these days. Pondering a Library Monk redesign now, but I have lots of other projects on the to-do [...]

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Friday, October 19th, 2007

Amazon vs iTunes

On a whim today I went looking for this album Spaced Out - The Best of Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner. Amazon has it in 256 kbps variable bit rate mp3, which is what I usually import CDs in. It’s $8.99 and DRM free.
iTunes also has the album but not in the iTunes Plus [...]

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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

MarsEdit

I’ve had a serial number for MarsEdit hanging around since early 2006.
MarsEdit just got an upgrade to version 2 and I’ve been slacking on the blogging front lately so maybe using MarsEdit will give me a jumpstart.

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Monday, June 11th, 2007

It’s getting chilly around here

Safari 3 beta for Windows. I’ll applaud any alternative to Internet Explorer. But with this and Apple’s website makeover, I feel like I’m in an alternate universe.

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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

OS X Software - Web Design

Cleaning out some of my bookmarks. Here’s some software I find useful.
Lynx Text Web Browser 2.8.6.1
Are your pages really usable? Try using them in Lynx.
Parallels Desktop
The best of both worlds
Saft
Nice extension for Safari
CSSEdit
The Best CSS editor for the Mac, at least that’s my opinion

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Written by Dan Greene, web designer and library geek. Topics covered here include Library and Information Science, Information Technology, web design, and maybe even a monk or two (more...)

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