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Mike

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Real-time HTML editor helps coding and learning (Download Squad)

Sep 25th 2006 7:17PM No hand-coding is bull - myself and most of the coders who work for me spend more time re-coding the garbage that designers give us - which is typically outputted by Dreamweaver... Once it's in HTML, then we get to add all the ASP.NET, PHP, CFML, and/or AJAX/javascript - and typically need to hand-tweak whatever those editors output too.

If our designers spent one tenth as much time worrying about HTML as they do about color combos - this tool would be great for them. If only because they don't seem to ever preview their design in anything other than their "not-quite-a-browser" Dreamweaver design-view.

-Mike
www.sinpies.com

Bleezer: blog anywhere (Download Squad)

Sep 25th 2006 7:08PM Oh, and here's a decent, but slightly old, review of blog editting software: http://lifehacker.com/software/blogging/desktop-blog-editor-comparison-190652.php


-Mike
http://www.mrtweak.com

Bleezer: blog anywhere (Download Squad)

Sep 25th 2006 6:59PM Bleezer may not be the fastest or coolest-looking blogging tool, but it is a great app from the functionality standpoint. It's still worth checking out Qumana and Performancing (and please ignore Live Writer), but this little app is java so it runs the same everywhere (except my old Palm PDA. Hint ... it would be nice if the Bleezer people are listening).

-Mike
http://www.mrtweak.com

We now know what Windows Vista will cost (BloggingStocks)

Aug 30th 2006 5:57PM Vista is a bit more than an incremental upgrade, although most of the added features are available as free software to anyone who cared enough to search for it.

What will be interesting to see is how many Windows users will buy the off-the-shelf/upgrade versions of Vista - compared to haw many Mac users have been buying the truly incremental OS X upgrades.

Foreign lawyers to be taught by ONU (Blogging Ohio)

Jul 31st 2006 4:45AM Not only are accounting firms outsourcing the paper-pushing overseas, but now corporations and big firms can outsource the legal boilerplate tasks too...

If an advanced degree won't help me find a job, I guess I just hope I can drive a fork lift for IKEA once http://www.ohikea.com brings them to Ohio.

-Mike, http://www.mrtweak.com

More bloggers wanted! (Weblogs, Inc.)

Jul 31st 2006 4:33AM Originally Weblogs, Inc. got a big boost in search rankings by being a blog network that interlinked heavily and started to spread around a lot of Engadget's PageRank. Now that they're a bigger source of news on the internet than most major newspapers I'd bet that they're really just consolidating things to a few major sites that will cover a whole range of topics - probably because AOL's big-name advertisers are more comfortable with it and will pay more per page view that way.

Good luck getting Tablet PC, Windows, Yahoo, or any of those other blogs restarted. May as well start your own blog network instead.

-Mike

Following the Rich Media money (Blog Maverick)

Apr 23rd 2006 1:55PM The model isn't any different than that of the radio industry. The two things that put high-volume internet broadcasting below the profitability line are: 1) radio (like TV) has periodic ads, while internet video only tacks ads onto the front or back of a video, if any ads are not just on the website; and 2) broadcast/bandwidth costs increase linearly with increased viewership - in radio they're freactinally exponential.

Yahoo Index Update (The Search Engine Marketing Weblog)

Apr 5th 2006 3:31PM There doesn't seem to be any significant information regarding this update and its effects. ...amazing how Yahoo is neglected when they only deliver 10-20% of Google's traffic.

I've noticed an increased level of traffic from Yahoo in the last week, but with about 100 pageviews/day I don't have enough clickthroughs from Yahoo to backward-engineer their algorithm changes. Based on slightly improved ranking on a few high-ranking keywords, I suspect the update was largely a spam and dead-site cleanup.

The new Yahoo! Home Page design(s) (The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog)

Mar 15th 2006 6:47PM Looks like the design is by famous-amongst-the-Adobe-Flash-crowd Hillman Curtis: http://www.hillmancurtis.com/hc_web/site_design.shtml. He's always had a good idea of how to present a lot of info on-screen, so it might actually be a useful redesign once you can get used to it.

Hi-tech flies the friendly skies (Weblogs, Inc.)

Mar 15th 2006 6:16PM I agree. It's not any harder to fake an RFID tag than it is to steal a passport, since the encrypted data can be duplicated in its entirety without decryption. Of course, it may even be possible to read through the shielding in the new passports and copy the data without ever stealing a passport.

Worth noting though are: 1)The encryption is weak (and better encrypted tags are more expensive, wonder which ones airports will use...), so any info about you stored on the RFID tag could be decrypted easily (from: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/0317rfidcrack.html), and 2)RFID tags can carry viruses and most RFID software and databases aren't designed to combat this security threat (from: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060315-6386.html).