March 2005 Archives

• 31 Mar 2005

  sIFR Slash Dotted

  Interesting SlashDot thread on sIFR. I have it installed in this blog to run headlines and dates in a preferred font. Granted, I'm not wringing as much out of it as I could. Then, again, this site is perpetually under...

• 30 Mar 2005

  Macs, Reloaded

  I'm quite fond of Paul Graham. He clearly gets it. In his latest essay, The Return of the Mac he writes about the how hackers embrace Macs. Of course, this is something I've been touting about Macs all along except,...

• 20 Mar 2005

  Easy, Breezy Favicons

  Wow, not too long ago, creating favicons required tinkering with obscure graphics converters and resampling palettes. Now, it's this easy....

• 19 Mar 2005

  MSFT to Introduce New Fonts in 2006

  Sick of verdana and trebuchet? Well, coming in 2006, Microsoft will be releasing six new typefaces -- including one by Luc(as) de Groot -- as part of their OS. Luc de Groot designed one of my favorite typefaces, Thesis. And, not so surprisingly, Calibris, one of the six new typefaces to debut in 2006, looks very similar to Thesis Sans...

• 18 Mar 2005

  Rounded Corners in CSS?

  Yep, it IS possible! Banish those sharp corners and adopt curvier, friendlier corners! Here's a short list of tutorials: » Nifty Corners: rounded corners without images » Sliding Doors" Box--Rounded Corners for All » CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners &...

• 17 Mar 2005

  TextDrive

  I met TextDrive's CEO, Jason Hoffman, in Boston recently. Really nice guy. Impressive company. I recently wrote about TextDrive's insane lifetime hosting offer and recommended them to a client. The client, too, is impressed....

• 17 Mar 2005

  Amaztype

  Latest viral Flash application from Yugop: Amaztype. Amazing indeed....

• 16 Mar 2005

  Google Thinks Different

  An homage to Apple Computers, albeit a short-lived one. Not sure why it was pulled down quickly though I suspect Google needs to show the public that they're platform agnostic....

• 10 Mar 2005

  MT Spam Plugin

  No, it's not MT Blacklist. Introducing MT-Keystrokes v0.1.4, an MT plug-in that uses human keystroke input to determine whether the comment was entered by a person or auto-generated by bots....

• 1 Mar 2005

  TextDrive's Hosting Deal

  TextDrive has an insane limited time offer: $399 lifetime hosting plan. Since the first hugely successful offering — dubbed the 'VC200' — in June of 2004, TextDrive has grown rapidly, now serving over three thousand domains, and has come to...