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06.11.08

Handle Your Business, All Open-Sourcey Style Open Source Reviews (1)

We’ve been looking for an online substitute for Quickbooks for some time now, mostly because we run our business off of three computers and the one that has all the invoice info. always seems to be the one that’s 1) farthest away and 2) not turned on. Here’s a great list of online invoicing […]
05.16.08

Making a Social Music Site in Drupal, Part I Open Source Reviews, Projects (4)

I had an idea for a website the other day: I play the guitar, and I have a terrible memory. So, when I come up with a song idea, I usually record it on the computer before I forget it. I assume I’m not alone, and a lot of other people have a bunch […]
03.06.08

Internet Explorer 8: Does Not Suck Web Design (0)

So I downloaded the IE8 beta 1 last night. It’s not bad. Seems pretty promising, in fact, although a couple of the new features are less than intuitive at first glance. As a disclaimer, Microsoft is pretty clear that this beta is aimed at “designers and developers,” so I’m sure there will […]
02.15.08

Opcion: Open Source Font Viewer Open Source Reviews (0)

I‘m kind of a font-whore, and as such, it takes me about a year to go through all of them one by one. There seem to be a lot of crappy font managing programs out there, but here’s one that seems a little better: Opcion Font Viewer, written by Paul Chiu. Opcion’s best quality […]
12.18.07

Make a client login area with AjaxExplorer Open Source Reviews (5)

Not that kind of explorer.

Here’s a good way to make an easy client login system: AjaxExplorer. AjaxExplorer is designed to be an FTP/file management system; upload it to your server, run the install script, and you can browse files (screenshot) just like they’re on your computer, as if you were in some sort of windows-based […]
12.11.07

2 Pass-it-on wordpress plugins Wordpress (3)

I can’t stand to read a big, long article on a computer screen. This, combined with my printer that devours SIX (6) Fifteen Dollar ($15) Ink Cartridges every couple months or so, is the reason that I have to eat belly lint and Ramen noodles for dinner every night.
On a related note, it’s a […]
12.05.07

Good site design:book by its cover Good Advertising, Wordpress (3)

A little while ago, I found a good article highlighting 25 Minimalist Blog Designs. Here’s one that didn’t make the list, but should’ve. Book By Its Cover, run by Julia Rothman, is a beautifully designed blog that reviews books on art and design with occasional author interviews.
Gee, two columns, justified to the left, […]
11.29.07

21 “free” photo galleries Web Design (7)

I’ll give you a hint: you already have these photo galleries included in your dirty, stolen completely legal copy of Photoshop CS2. These galleries give you a way of easily making web pages that hold lots of thumbnail photos, each linking to a full size version of the image.
We’ve been looking for a good […]
11.21.07

Internet explorer is a jerk: css hacks Web Design (15)

Internet Explorer 6 is a jerk. It’s one of the first things I discovered upon coming to web design from the video world. Video production has its weirdness, but once you render something, you don’t have to worry about people’s TVs changing your font sizes or column alignments behind your back.
Anyway, I’ve been looking […]
11.18.07

stick it to the robots: email munging Web Design (4)

I’ve always been reluctant to use my actual e-mail address on a webpage because of all those stories about evil robots that scour the Inter-puters for the ‘@’ symbol and want to sign me up for a lifetime of male enhancement or low-interest mortgages.
On the other hand, I like it when sites include the […]
11.10.07

Stop complaining. Start kvetching. Wordpress (1)

This one’s for those of us who like Yiddish, complaining, and complaining in Yiddish about crap we don’t like. I have nothing bad to say about Wordpress (although I haven’t been using it that long), but I just found an interactive kvetching feature that not only lets you bitch about a Wordpress-related problem, you can […]
11.09.07

the internet’s broke Open Source Reviews (0)

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We’re a little slow getting our Open-Source reviews off the ground, due to a problem with our Godaddy Hosting Account that won’t let us make any new MySQL databases. I don’t know what the crap that means, but it means we can’t install any new programs on the server until it gets fixed. They do […]
11.06.07

i heart the Internet Web Design (0)

I made my first-ever blog post last week–the one about ways to embed a form on a webpage. I talked for a while about Zoho Creator, which is a cool system for taking form data and putting it into an online database. It really does kick ass, but I wondered whether a company […]

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