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| Sunday, August 13, 2006 |
| Test |
Checking out the new Windows Live Writer (beta) WYSIWYG blog writer. My cat: 
Inserting picture works great. check out my new blog (unstarted) .... inserting links works wonderfully. This feels like cheating. It seems to be an extension of what publishing to blog using Office 2007 beta does. But much more centered around blogging. It even has it formatted exactly how my blogs posts look. Here is a screenshot as I'm writing it.  When I typed up a post for a wordpress blog I could see my cursor but with this blogger one I can't. I wonder if that is due to my theme, blogger or just a bug? Cool idea, especially if you do a lot of blogging offline since you can save them as drafts. You can also insert a map, only option is Windows Live Local but perhaps that will change? All in all, as long as this post publishes I think I"ll use this for awhile. That has always been one of my biggest problems with blogger. Their WYSIWYG editor blows. UPDATE: Ok, turns out there are different views.... weblayout can't see my cursor normal I can. The views are nice. You can see it in your blog, much faster than bloggers preview too, and you can see the html it is creating. Also wandered around the options and it lets you customize the html of images, feed items, snippets, and links as well as has the ability to have plugins. Labels: beta, download, review, test, windows live writer |
posted by mpcc @ 8/13/2006 11:47:00 PM   |
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| Thursday, August 03, 2006 |
| Electronics Protection |
I bought some screen protectors from Shieldzone.com. I will be using them on my new phone (RAZR V3m) and my iRiver. I read a review about this stuff from Techgurls. It looks pretty cool, apparently it's tough enough that even the army was originally using it.
I just ordered it so hopefully I'll get it sometime end of next week. More info to come...Labels: iclix, iriver, review, tech |
| posted by mpcc @ 8/03/2006 11:13:00 PM |
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| Sunday, July 30, 2006 |
| Reading books |
I'm currently reading 2 or 3 books, among other things. Two of them happen to be the same publisher O'Reilly... while the last one is SitePoint. Head Rush Ajax and Head First Design Patters and Build your own site the right way using XHTML and CSS So far I'd recommend all of these books. All three of them teach through example and none of the pages are complete boxes of text, you see how the code effects the page.
The book on XHTML and CSS is definitely for beginners, I skipped the first chapter and a half. It goes so far as assuming nothing, even that you know what a browser does. I almost put it down at that point but I kept with it. I taught myself CSS online just looking at what others had done and feel that to make sure I was staying within standards and all a basic book might be a good idea. And this book does what I want. The writing is entertaining and I can almost here a British dude narrating it! Though that's more to do with the fact that I heard about the book from a British podcaster but, that's later.
On to the Head Rush/First books. I like the way they are very graphical and example driven. You lean what you need as it is needed and each example involves more plus what you have used in the last chapter. I also think it's great for anyone who has problems with short attention span. There are little quizzes along the way and it's a very practical way of learning instead of the theoretical approach you might get in other books.
As you can see I'm on a webdev kick. I think it's really interesting and plan on applying what I"m learning to some forms and a site that I help that is currently all in asp. I think Ajax would be great for it and even help keep down user error.
I'm always open to other book recommendations, in pretty much anything.Labels: ajax, books, css, review, tech, web design |
| posted by mpcc @ 7/30/2006 04:47:00 PM |
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| Sunday, July 23, 2006 |
| toread |
How do you mark those sites that you don't really have a category for or you want to go back to it reletively soon?
Right now I bookmark it with del.icio.us and tag it as toread along with any general tags I can gleam from the parts I have read. This works just fine with me and I think I'll stick to it even after checking out toread.cc.
The idea behind this site is to, using a bookmarklet, email a cached version of this page to your email, "bookmarking by email" as they put it, to read at your leisure. It's a good idea I suppose but personnaly I'd rather it didn't take up inbox space.
The company that does this looks like a japanesse company and possibly also have RSS Readers, but no english version I could see. I'd like this toread site better if you could send it to an RSS feed instead. But then it'd be another del.icio.us.Labels: bookmarklet, review, tech |
| posted by mpcc @ 7/23/2006 04:42:00 PM |
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| Saturday, June 24, 2006 |
| Iriver Clix |
I'm so excited! I just bought the Iriver Clix. I can't wait to get it. It's beautiful on the web and CNET was actually positive about it just gripping about the storage size. Which for CNET is pretty minor. I also bought the FM tuner/car charger along with it. That's my "practical" buy with it. I'd like the Wireless Cradle with Speakers that doubles as an alarm clock but with the FM tuner I'd be able to charge it in the car so traveling and such will be awesome. Hopefully it will live up to my expectations!
If you're reading this twice sorry, it got deleted for some reason.
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| posted by mpcc @ 6/24/2006 04:15:00 PM |
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| Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| Freeware Review: tinySpell |
My spelling sucks. Case in point; blog entries, and IM. But I have found a little freeware program called tinySpell that spell checks everything that you type. Whether it's an email, blog entry, web address etc. If you type any letters, it will spell check them. When it finds a word misspelled it makes a little ding sound and if you hit ctrl + ; a little menu pop-ups with choices for the corrent spelling. Looks very much like in word when you've misspelled something. Very handy. You can't change the sound which is kinda annoying but it has decent options and settings are easly accessed through right-clicking on it's icon. One key feature is disable/enable. It literally will spell check everything including passwords. If you hit ctrl + on a password that it doesn't feel is spelled correctly you can see the original "misspelling" and any options to "correctly" spell it. How many people have a password that is in the dictionary or doesn't use characters? At least if you're smart. Could be very usefull if you wanted to find out someone's password and it just happend to be the last thing they typed.
All in all a good little program. It's making my webmail emails easier and IM conversations not quite as bad. Not to mention this blog won't be nearly as horribly done first time around.
~~~ program found in a recommendation from: sara.word
~~~~~~~~Link to program~~~~~~
TinySpellLabels: download, review, software |
| posted by mpcc @ 12/20/2004 01:56:00 AM |
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