I just spent a little over 2 hours putting together an iPhoto book. I craftfully pulled different photos in and out while adjusting various page styles to make everything flow nicely from page to page.
While working on my last page, I decided to remove an image I didn’t want, when all of the sudden I couldn’t see my iPhoto book. It was gone and I wasn’t quite sure where it went. I wasn’t even given an alert screen - iPhoto just removed 2 hours of my work.
AHHHHHHH - F&#$ you iPhoto! Give me back my book.
After quite a bit of yelling, my wife expressed the same thing happening to her only a few weeks ago.
Again, I yell AHHHHHHH - F&#$ you iPhoto!
posted on November 24, 2005| 9:39 PM EST
I used to be that guy who kept up on all his web feeds and discussed what he learned with his wife and co-workers daily. For some reason, life started to get busier than normal and reading feeds slowed down.
Now-a-days I find myself looking over at my news reader while working away to only see the unread feed counter going up and up. Of course I do my best ever week to set aside a time to scan everything over for something big but even that has been hard when 12 hour days are considered taking it slow.
Things at work are getting even busier now but side projects are down to one. So tonight, while Jodi has decided to hang out with her girlfriends, I’ve decided to take an honest effort to get back on the wagon.
Since I’ve been home, I’ve cracked through almost a hundred posts and on last count - I have 568 more to go. The goal is to read them all and get things under control. Once I can do that, a daily routine of spending 30 minutes will be set to maintain feed control.
Do you have this same problem?
posted on November 18, 2005| 9:18 PM EST
For the past few Sundays, Jodi and I have missed going to church because we didn’t want to wake up Jessica from her night sleep. Today she didn’t wake up until around 9:30 (EST).
This is nice because we get some extra rest ourselves but we do end up missing church. What’s been nice, however, is the ability to get messages online. Central (our church) has been putting Quicktime video of their messages online and Mars Hill updates their site with new teachings each week as well.
We’re still able to attend church but at home as a family. We can listen or watch a message/teaching and have discussion on it as a family even though we missed attending the brick and morter church.
So if you’re group is debating on putting your messages online - do it. You’ll be impacting more people that you realize.
posted on November 13, 2005| 1:13 PM EST
After using a site that was never meant to stay online as long as it did - it was definately time for a change. So we locked ourselves in a room and gave ourselves a face-lift.
Improved XHTML, CSS and Accessibility are just a few things we’re extremely proud of. We’ve also simplified our services, added our hosting services and gave a peek into our upcoming products section. We still have a few things to tweek but the majority of the website is done.
So what do you think?
posted on November 10, 2005| 10:32 PM EST
This is an email that was sent to me and a few people from Jon Pott - I’m totally ripping off his email and putting it on my website because it has some great stuff in it. I hope you’re ok with this Jon :-)
The line between “regular” applications that run on your computer and web-based applications continues to blur. A few co-workers recently sent out a few links to web-based things that are traditionally applications that run locally. I’ve played around with writely.com and so far I’m pretty impressed.
One of the primary advantages of doing things on the web, of course, is that you can access them from anywhere. In the case of writely.com, for instance, I can start a document on my machine here at home tonight, and work on it tomorrow at work, without sending the document to myself or otherwise saving it and transporting it from place to place. The document is saved on writely’s servers, so I can get at them from any web browser, anywhere, anytime.
To add to the pile of web-based goodness:
http://writely.com -
Rich originally sent this one out, but I’ve been using it and so far it’s great. It bears mentioning again — VERY handy for the right kind of work, and it allows collaborative work so multiple wirtely.com users can edit a document (if you so choose).
http://zimbra.com
Zimbra is probably the most ambitious web-based application I’ve seen. It’s actually a suite of applications that promise to rival Outlook’s abilities in the areas of contact management, group scheduling, e-mail, and so on. Particularly impressive are its e-mail management features, with respect to searching, cross-referencing, and tagging. Watch the flash overview, then play with the hosted demo. There are some performance issues (load time is a little slow), and I don’t know about full browser compatibility, but this is very ambitious and impressive so far.
http://strongspace.com - Do you back up your data to an external hard drive? Good for you. What happens if your house burns down? Or if your drive AND computer are stolen? Both copies of your data are gone. Strongspace provides storage for your digital life, and pricing is based on how much you use. 4GB is $8/month, and the plans go up from there. One option: Zip up everything you want to save and upload the zip file every now and again. Otherwise, for the command-line-enabled, rsync directories out to the strongspace server. And, it’s all encrypted. No (horrible, nasty, insecure) FTP for you.
http://thinkfree.com - You know Microsoft Office? Imagine that on the web. At least that’s what they claim to be doing with thinkfree.com (the online edition — there’s a run-on-your-machine edition, too). Spreadsheet, word processing, and presentation software, (supposedly) full import and export capabilities with Office documents, and PDF exports built-in. It might not be fully buzzword-compliant because it’s Java-based and so has to be run as an applet vs. AJAX, but it’s still a web-based application, at least to some degree.
http://meebo.com - meebo is a web-based instant messaging environment. It can grab info from your current AIM, MSN, Yahoo, GTalk (etc.) account and serve as your instant messaging client. I don’t think it makes sounds, so you have to check the window every now and again, but… well, I guess you can’t have it all. Yet.
http://roundcube.net - Roundcube is an AJAX mail client. It’s still in alpha, but looks promising.
http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/ - Webnote is a web-based pile o’ post-it notes. It’s klunky right now and a little unpredictable, so I’m not sure how useful it will turn out to be, but it’s an interesting proof-of-concept for web-based aplications.
posted on November 9, 2005| 12:11 PM EST
