August 2003

Tofu

Tofu Tofu is an experiment. It adresses the common problem that people don’t like reading text on the screen. In Tofu, text is arranged in columns, like in a newspaper. Furthermore, each column is only as high as your window, so lines don’t move about vertically. You just scroll from column to column horizontally, and [...]

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New HTML Validator (beta)

The new “Zeldman Made Us Do It!” edition of the W3C’s free online markup validation service includes human-friendly error messages that you can customize, and a “fussy parsing” mode that catches technically kosher but problematic patches in your markup. [Via: Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report] I tried it on a broken page and it [...]

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OS X tougher to crack than Windows

[Via: myapplemenu] Mac OS X is much tougher to crack than Windows. This whole article is an excellent, easy read about Macs and viruses. These points caught my eye: While creating a Mac OS X virus is not impossible, Janz said, the degree of difficulty here is at least 9.5 on a scale of 1 [...]

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US youth charged over net virus

BBC News: Technology: US youth charged over net virus. Authorities in America have charged an 18-year-old youth with spreading the crippling MSBlast internet virus. Jeffrey Lee Parson of Hopkins, Minnesota, is accused of “intentionally causing and attempting to cause damage to a protected computer”. The teenager is suspected of releasing a variant of the so-called [...]

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APOD Grabber new version

APOD Grabber is a little application that gives you the ability to quickly and easily view, browse, and download images from NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day web site. APOD Grabber also shows you all the proper credits, explanations / descriptions, and provides a link to the viewed image’s specific web page. You can also [...]

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iDress 1.3.4 fixes NZ Addresses

iDress 1.3.4 – VersionTracker new in this version includes: Fixed New Zealand address formatting bug.

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