Yearly Archives: 2010

BlogBuzz May 29, 2010

14 Mac Applications I Use Every Day

I made the switch to Mac OS X a little over two years ago when I bought my first MacBook (which is still working fine as my main computer, I might add). I find that my workflow has improved, and I’m more efficient in…

Facebook Privacy Scanning Bookmarklet

Unless you’ve been living under an internet-devoid rock, you have probably noticed the recent uproar over Facebook “privacy.” The social media giant made some changes, with various confusing privacy implications that have everyone panicking. By default applications can access some personal details (that you…

Apple, Amazon, Napster, Netflix Sued Over Online Music Distribution Patent

Ars Technica is reporting on a new development in the tech patent lawsuit war. Apple, along with Amazon, Netflix, Napster, Microsoft, Rhapsody and a few others, is being sued by Sharing Sound LLC over their infringement of the patent “Distribution of musical products by…

CloudApp: Share Files Fast

CloudApp is a nifty application that lets you quickly and easily share files. All you have to do is drag a file onto the menu bar. Once the file is uploaded to the “Cloud,” a short URL to the file is automatically copied to…

BlogBuzz May 22, 2010

Coming in WordPress 3.0: Custom Editor Stylesheets

I generally prefer to write my posts with WordPress’s visual editor, as it gives me a better idea of what the post will look like as I write it than the HTML view does. But it still looks different than the final post will…

Google Font API

Google is taking on projects like sIFR and Cufón with their new Google Font API. A simple line of JavaScript lets you load a font family from their directory of open source fonts, allowing you to safely reference it within your CSS. Here is…

A Standard to Specify a Canonical Short Link

There has been a small push to create a standard way for a web page to specify a preferred short link for use in places like Twitter. Something like the rel="canonical" trick that tells search engines which page on your domain is the one…

Transmit 4: The Ultimate Mac FTP and S3 Client

Panic Inc has released version four of their popular Transmit FTP client. To simply call it an “FTP client,” though, doesn’t do the software justice. Really, it’s a file transfer application. It can interact with FTP and SFTP servers as well as Amazon S3,…