Image Tricks
This looks like fairly useful image manipulation software. I fear I’ll end up killing a few hours testing it in the next few days/weeks.
(tags: osx software)
2006/9/6
Linkage on 2006-09-05
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2006/9/2
Tiny URLs
As an aside:
When using Firefox, or any other browser which supports such a thing, you can add a quick-search bookmark with the following properties for easy use:
| Name | it.is-here.com |
|---|---|
| Location | http://it.is-here.com/cgi-bin/magic.cgi?action=add&url=%s |
| Keyword | url |
| Description | Type “url <some url>” to be presente\d with a short-cut url. |
So when you’re on a page with an annoyingly long URL you can then simply go to the location input, insert url before the actual URL and hit enter, which automatically sends you through the process of generating a short-cut. Can’t make it much easier than that, I think.
Enjoy. 
Update: Alternative (and more generally useful) approach, pointed out by Kalle:
| Go to it.is-here.com |
| Right click in the “Add a url” input field, to get the context menu. |
| Select “Add keyword to this search” from that menu. |
| Type something in for the name field and “url” in the keyword field and hit enter. |
I learned something new today, yay!
2006/9/1
NetNewsWire 2.1.1
What the hell?
I’d been using a beta version (2.1.1b2) for a while and wondered if there had been any news on that front. I double-checked that there were no entries I’d overlooked in the RSS feed of the NetNewsWire Beta forum on NewsGator’s website.
Curiously, I decide to check the actual webpages for a change and notice that unlike what the RSS feed indicates, there are at least one or two posts after August 6. In fact, there’s a newer beta (2.1.1b4), which I immediately download and run. Backups, what backups? I trust Brent. 
Then for reasons I don’t recall I decide to browse to the top level of the forum and notice that the forum is marked read-only because 2.1.1 has been released, with a referral to an announcement in a different NewsGator forum. Strange that there was no posting saying so in the forum itself, and no post on Ranchero or Inessential.com, where I’d have expected a mention on at least one of them. What’s more, most of the pages on Ranchero still refer to NetNewsWire 2.1!
The release has been over a week ago, but MacUpdate and VersionTracker both list 2.1.1b1 as the most recent release of sorts.
What gives, who is dropping the ball here?
Update: See comments; It was Brent being so busy with 3.0 that he forgot to properly announce the new version.
Linkage on 2006-08-31
Flushes and blushes over Bush speech
Read it and try not to laugh, I dare you! I’m not sure it’s actually possible.
(tags: politics television bush humour)
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