Posts tagged ‘blogging’
Caching out
September 9th, 2011 at 11:25 pm by Dr. Drang
I can’t say that it’s happened every day, but more days than not over the past week or two, this site has become unavailable. Sometimes I’ve noticed it myself, sometimes a reader has tweeted me about it. I know it’s not because of traffic, but beyond that I have no idea of the cause. I…
Evergreen
September 3rd, 2011 at 10:19 pm by Dr. Drang
The battery in one of the emergency lights in our office died a couple of weeks ago. We have five sets of emergency lights (those are the small lights that go on when the power goes out so you can see your way to an exit), and none of the batteries have been changed in…
Footnote popup interference
August 20th, 2011 at 11:30 pm by Dr. Drang
Last week I saw this announcement, written by Hans Petter Eikemo and retweeted by John Siracusa: @siracusa You can now read footnotes in in peace. http://t.co/H3ZySKU (Announcing the Footnotify Chrome and Safari extension)10:57 AM Tue Aug 16, 2011@hpeikemo Hans Petter Eikemo Eikemo is the developer of Footnotify, a Chrome and Safari extension for showing footnotes…
Scramble
August 19th, 2011 at 9:22 am by Dr. Drang
I woke up this morning realizing that David Sparks was going to link here today. The top post on the blog, the first thing David’s fans from Macsparky and Mac Power Users were going to see, was a post about hotel showers. Not putting my best foot forward. Now, a smart blogger, a focused blogger,…
AAPL
August 11th, 2011 at 11:17 pm by Dr. Drang
I stopped following Philip Elmer-Dewitt (@philiped) on Twitter today. I have nothing against the guy, and this isn’t a call for others to follow my lead. I’m just tired of Apple financial news. It seems like every Mac-related site I visit or subscribe to is spending more time telling my how much money Apple is…
Screenshot/upload utility - now with Flickr
July 8th, 2011 at 9:06 am by Dr. Drang
I wrote a little utility called snapftp a few years ago to streamline my writing of posts about software. These posts typically include a snapshot or two of the software, and the purpose of snapftp was to take the multistep process of taking the screenshot, resizing it to fit in the blog, if necessary, uploading…
Photo advice and a plea for tolerance
April 28th, 2011 at 9:37 pm by Dr. Drang
So I followed a Daring Fireball link to this post, where “marketing guy” Ryan Cash says the new white iPhone 4 is thicker than the black one. He may well be right, but the four photos in his post certainly don’t show it. The first one is taken from the wrong angle, as is the…
TV or not TV
April 19th, 2011 at 9:30 pm by Dr. Drang
Lots of virtual ink has been spilled in recent days on the likelihood of an Apple TV set. I’m not going bother looking up all the links; I’m sure you’ve seen most of them. But in all the talk of margins, commoditization, and the power of the cable companies, an obvious point is being missed:…
Baked or fresh
April 9th, 2011 at 10:49 pm by Dr. Drang
Much talk recently about “baked” blogs, blogs whose HTML is served from a set of static files rather than generated on the fly. I think it started with this post from Brett Simmons. More recently, Marco Arment has been talking about developing a baked blogging system on the Build & Analyze podcast. And of course,…
Colonoscopy
March 31st, 2011 at 11:56 am by Dr. Drang
It’s funny how reaction to the massive Mac Power Users podcast with Merlin Mann has been slowly dribbling out in the days since its release. Obviously, it’s taken everyone a while to make their way through its 2½ hours of packed productivity pr0n. I’ll have some substantive things to say about it when I’m back…
