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Archives for January 2005
Mac Designer's Config
Mac Designer’s Config is a great post from a designer new to the Mac world, who is interested in the tools and configurations used by other designers. As I plan to make the full switch myself this year, I find the information and discussions within the comments to be very enlightening. There are several applications listed that I haven’t heard of, so I am even more excited to try them out when I have my own set up.
Transforming bad material into suitable illustrations
Movable Type E-Mail Vulnerability
If you are running any version of MovableType, you need to install the newly released patch which closes a hole that “malicious users to send email through the application to any number of arbitrary users.” If you do not want to mess with a full upgrade, just install the plugin. It took me less than three minutes to download and install it on my MT site. A simple fix to a giant problem.
Photon
Photon “gives you the power to manage your Movable Type, TypePad, Blojsom and WordPress photo-blogs in the familiar surrounds of Apple iPhoto.
SilverSpider Play List 1.2 Released
As I posted earlier, SilverSpider Play List 1.2 has some major new features, including the ability to specify images to be used for specific albums, auto-pruning of the play list file and the ability to override the Artist name when querying Amazon.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
One note, it will probably be a while before I release another version, as I have accepted a new job, and will be pretty busy for a while. But, please send your feedback and I will keep track of it for future revs.