Finally – “Microsoft backs down” as Wired puts it. My own opinion – I’ll believe it when I see it. My skeptical money is that what M$ will end up calling compliance will be something different from actual compliance as developers need to actually utilize cross-browser standardization. As I’ve gotten more freelance and development work [...]

Merlin Mann of 43folders.com posted this to his blog, and as a mac newbie, I’m also posting it here for further exploration. Some of these I know about and some are new. Merlin said it’s a good list, so I’ll try at least some of these. http://techmagazine.ws/mac-software/

This from MacBreak weekly – a podcast I’m listening to right now, so I’ll have to find the links for it later. Evidently one easy way to get a color palate is to find a piece of artwork or image – or take picture of something with a nice sense of color you’d like for [...]

The original post uses the “W** 2.0″ buzzword, but I’ll just call it a lengthy (not complete, although complete is probably impossible) list of APIs for interesting/innovative use. If you don’t know what an API is, here is the wikipedia page. Here’s the link to the list of APIs. I know of a few they’ve [...]

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We’ve started using Google docs and calendar for weekly household budgeting. The privacy issues I guess don’t really bother me. About all anyone would see is that we drop $130 frequently at Trader Joe’s were someone to take the trouble to find out. The important stuff is all offline. That said I found this kind [...]

I found this article that features several different forms of data visualization that might be of interest to a colleague (or it might be on the basic side for her). Some of these are just funny little web 2.0 “mashups” (wincing as I use that word). A few I’ve actually seen before, but one I [...]