One aspect of forms that is kind of interesting is that a PDF “form” is really a bundling of an application, and the data that the use is creating with that application. I can’t think of any other mechanism that merges these two things. Traditionally a form is a request for information. You get a [...]
I don’t understand the new iTunes pricing model. Even songs on the same album can be priced differently: Albums in Canada used to be $9.99; now some new albums are $11.99 or $12.99. I know they aren’t Apple’s idea, but these pricing games are going to hurt sales.
The first article in this series invited you to clean some of the metadata in your iTunes library. You can visit that article here. This time we’re going to refine the set of songs that we want to work with. Notice I said “songs”. If your iTunes library is anything like mine, there are a [...]
The Xbox 360′s hardware has been a disaster since day one. I love my Xbox 360, but a lot of that love is in spite of all the things the 360 does to make me hate it. I’m on my 5th console (although this one seems to be a good one – I’ve had it [...]
An interesting post by Eric Sink at SourceGear on some quirks you run into building a cross-platform version control system. I like this one: Under Linux, checkin a file with a name that ends in a dot. Check it out under Windows. The trailing dot is probably gone. Now check the file back in and [...]
I was recently traveling with my laptop and wanted to listen to some music. Most of my music is on a server at home, but when buy new music from iTunes or rip a CD, the default place for it is the Music folder on my laptop’s hard disk. I move music to the server [...]
Garmin has released a map update, their 2010 update. Yes, it’s April 2009, but that’s what it’s called. So how new is the data? Well, the previous update didn’t include any of the Costco stores in Ottawa. This new update includes one – only one – of the three Costco stores in Ottawa. And it [...]
I’ve been managing a fairly large music library (~80 gig) with iTunes for a while now, and I’ve come up with some techniques for managing the music library that I think work pretty well. I’m going to write a series of blog posts with techniques for managing your iTunes library, including trying to surface some [...]
The discussion forums that Adobe runs for our products, at http://forums.adobe.com, have just been upgraded. I don’t know what technology they were based on but it was pretty dusty. The new stuff looks good. Drop by the new LiveCycle Designer ES forum if you have any Designer questions. It’s your typical “not official support” community [...]
I added ads to some of the posts on the Ottawa Events site RSS feed. It looks like there are almost 300 subscribers to that feed, and it’ll be interesting to see if I lose any to the ads. They’re fairly small and unobtrusive (and because the content is so focused, seem more relevant than [...]