February 2005

iClock 2.1.7

One of my favourite utilities is iClock, which is now a permanent feature on my menu bar. Today it was updated to version 2.1.7. With iClock you can do many things, including: customise the Time and Date display in the menubar in hundreds of ways change the colors separately of the Time and Date display [...]

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Momentuos Lifemaps

I’ve been busy with a couple of web sites this month, apart from updating and upgrading my own. Lifemaps is a straightforward blog, while Momentuos is a photo gallery for specialty greeting cards. Both have been fun and interesting, and as usual, I’ve learned a lot.

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An inspiring evening of web standards

Last night the New Zealand chapter of the Web Standards group met in Wellington. A bit of history John Allsopp showed us how new media emerge from their ancestors: cinema from the stage, photography from painting, television from radio and cinema, the web predominantly from print. We’re in at a very exciting period of development [...]

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CommunityNet Aotearoa: new research resource

Another ‘How-To’ guide, on Community Research, has just been added to CommunityNet Aotearoa, the information sharing website for New Zealand community and voluntary organisations. The guide links to selected resources on research methods, tools, recent papers, upcoming conferences, self-evaluation of organisations and community projects, and turning research into action. Like other How-To Guides, instead of [...]

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The women of web design

I enjoy being part of the Wise Women mailing list where (mainly) women from around the world daily discuss web design topics. It’s been the inspiration of more than one post on this blog. Indeed, I’ve contributed several articles to the site, as a way of giving back to this invaluable source of information. As [...]

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How to create a password

We need passwords for everything these days — I have about a million, covering all my own stuff: bank accounts, blogs, computer, email, you name it, and a whole bunch of client stuff: ftp passwords, logins … Yup, passwords are a major pain, and thinking them up is always so hard. So it was interesting [...]

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