What Do I KnowThe daily dish of Dominey Design.Vista- July 22, 2005 Get used it it folks -- according to Engadget, which lifted their news from ActiveWin.com, the next version of the Windows operating system will be named "Vista." This replaces the beloved "Longhorn" everyone has been poking fun at for the past few years, and Engadget readers are hardly pleased with the new name. In its defense, "Vista" is nowhere near as masculine or aggressive sounding as "XP" (which was just as nonsensical as Macromedia's "MX" and just about every other "X" product out...http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/002331.shtml The new Daily Show set- July 19, 2005 Last night I tuned in to the Daily Show on Comedy Central for the first time in...I don't know, a couple of weeks...and immediately noticed how different everything looked. Surely Stewart was broadcasting from LA or Hollywood I thought, for the lighting was cold, the set was bare, and the air had the vibe of David Letterman broadcasting from LA, or Leno in New York. In other words, downright uncomfortable and awkward. After a couple of minutes my wife asked what the deal with the set was, and..http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/002322.shtml Dominey Design redo- July 7, 2005 It's been over two years since my 'official' business site, Dominey Design, has been updated. I've had plenty of reasons to update it, but all my time and energy has been going towards client work, my first software product, and of course maintaining the site you're currently reading. Well today that finally changes with a small redesign of Dominey Design. A lot has changed since the previous version was launched in 2001 -- personally, professionally, and creatively --- and I felt the time was.http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/002290.shtml Nvu- July 1, 2005 Now available for download is Nvu 1.0 -- a 'complete web authoring system' for Linux, Windows, and OS X. It's free, and packs quite a punch in the features department -- integrated FTP, site management, tabbed documents, spell checker, in-line preview, css editor, and numerous wizards for building tables, forms, and other elements. Web developers comfortable with the interface of Macromedia HomeSite will definitely appreciate Nvu, for it feels a lot like it. You can browse an ftp directory on..http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/002277.shtml |