Sending email to Me.com now works. I hope this portends an early release of push .Mac MobileMe email.
I currently have OmniWeb 5.8 sp1, Safari 3.1.1, and Firefox 3 installed on my Macbook Pro. One of the features of OmniWeb and Firefox that I like is the smart address bar that can pull from keywords and titles of web pages, like so:
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Does Safari have this capability? I tried Saft but I did not see any such capability.
I’d never heard about the Today app until reading about it on TUAW. If you want the functionality of Entourage’s My Day without the cost, then Today looks like a solid choice.
Talk about your über-geeky: Joel at OmniGroup has posted his method of tracking characters in OmniFocus. Fourth edition D&D is a sea change in the way powers, abilities, and just about everything else, and his method is interesting. Again, über-geeky but so crunchy.
Tzvi informed me today that Firefox 3 supported ICC v2 and v4. For someone who dabbles in photography, this is good news - photos should look the same across browsers and platforms. When checking the color.org site on ICC and browser support, however, I found that the images still did not display correctly. It turns out that ICC is off by default. To turn ICC support on, go to about:config, set gfx.color_management.enabled to true, and restart Firefox.
There, now photos will look as good in Firefox as they have in Safari/OmniWeb.
I know there are sites like Don’t Forget the Milk and TaDa List. The problem with those is you are dependent on connectivity. 3G iPhone or not, there is no getting to your list if you are stuck with no signal in the metal box monstrosities of a supermarket. Syncing notes to your notes may be possible come 11 July, but putting shopping lists in Yojimbo seems like overkill.
One of two SplashData apps announced today is SplashShopper for the iPhone. I only wish I had this one on Sunday so I would have remembered to pick up bread crumbs.
The other app is one I have used on Palm OS and Windows Mobile and highly recommend. I don’t like carry my membership cards for every hotel, rental car, and frequent flyer membership program, nor can I remember every bank account number. That’s where SplashID comes into play. I store a lot of this data in Yojimbo but there is a certain elegance to SplashData. Untless there is two-way syncing with Yojimbo when the App Store launches, SplashData will be one of my first purchases.
Sick of hearing about Yojimbo? Want something that syncs across Mac, Windows, and Mobile? Check out Evernote. I won’t go into explaining it here since the site explains it all. If it interests you, though, let me know and I’ll send you a beta invite. While I do like Yojimbo, having access to my notes from any browser and my iPhone is quite enticing. If they can add encryption, a Services menu option, and a “Print to PDF in Evernote” a la Yojimbo, it will be a serious contender. Update: I just noticed that Evernote adds a menuling from which you can paste and screenshot into Evernote. Nice touch.
1994: 3.5″ floppies and the original Colonization. I missed it, but earlier this week Firaxis announced Civilization IV: Colonization to be available this fall.
Last weekend was my 20th high school reunion. Saturday night was dinner at Fogo De Chão and what a dinner. The meat is served by an endless parade of “gauchos” with skewers of meat that they slice on to your plate until you indicate you need a break with a red STOP card. The salad bar was equally impressive - important for the vegetarian guests - but if you’re there for the prix fix meat smorgasbord, don’t go heavy on the greenery. No, not every cut of meat was a epicurean tour de force, but that’s the beauty - there’s more on the way. Highly recommended for my carnivore friends, and also recommended by my vegetarian wife.
The requisite photo with the new camera
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We’re looking to hire a slew of people for the following roles. Drop me a line if you or someone you know is interested and wants more details.
- Unix SysAdmins
- Oracle DBAs
- Perl/PHP/Web developers
- Windows/Exchange admins
- Unix/DNS admins
- Unix/Weblogic admins
