Category: Review

Opera Mac Mini Review

6 Sep, 2005

The other day was Opera’s birthday and to celebrate they gave out free licenses. First off, if you have to pay for a web browser, it better be darn good. After some testing and general web usage, I’ve come to think that it’s just OK. It’s very streamlined and visually appealing. Plus there are many […]

Smiley Central

28 Aug, 2005

Are you obsessed with smilies? Well Smiley Central can help feed your addiction. While I was out at SES, the Ask people mentioned Smiley Central because it’s one of their projects. Now I wouldn’t usually trust something like this, but since it came from the Ask Jeeves company, I felt at ease. I got Christi […]

MN State Fair Recap

26 Aug, 2005

We had a great time at the Minnesota State Fair today. Started off with a pork-chop on a stick at 10 am and it was great. Also ate Australian potato skins, some of a funnel cake, mini cinnamon rolls with ice cream, had a beer, a malt, some pop and I think that was it. […]

Sin City is Stupid

20 Aug, 2005

We watched Sin City last night and were very disappointed. Christi and I were both really excited to see it. Sure it looked cool, but the movie sucked. We were not impressed at all. Just a bunch of people violently killing other people and smoking. I didn’t get it. Very big let down. Glad I […]

SES 2005 – Review & Photos

15 Aug, 2005

Just a week ago I was off to my first Search Engine Strategies Conference and as I look back, it was a great time. There was so much information floating around that it was hard not to miss some pieces here and there. From the new definition of RSS – Really Simple Stealing – go […]

GoogleDance 2005

10 Aug, 2005

It was my first GoogleDance and it sure was a lot of fun. Google gave us free pop, water, beer and wine to drink. There was everything from hot dogs to shrimp, soft pretzels, beer nuts and some cheesy potatoes to eat. For desert you could grab a root beer float, cookies, bars or Cold […]

Open winmail.dat files on a Mac

4 Aug, 2005

It’s bound to happen on a Mac. Someone will send you an email and tell you to check out the attachment. However, the only thing attached is a winmail.dat file. Good news though, you can open that file. TNEF’s Enough is a little freeware application that can open winmail.dat files and extract the attachment that […]

Multiple Virtual Desktops

29 Jul, 2005

Inspired by a post over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog I decided to check out a virtual desktop application called Desktop Manager. And I’m glad I did. Now it’s a little hard to explain, as I found out when trying to tell a friend, but I’ll try. You basically get to take your desktop and […]

Target Aquatennial Fireworks

24 Jul, 2005

Last night was the 2005 Aquatennial Fireworks sponsored by Target. Once again the show was spectacular and didn’t disappoint. Supposedly it’s the 4th largest fireworks show in the nation. You can see all my photos over at my Target Fireworks Flickr page.

Web Developers Dream Firefox Extension

19 Jul, 2005

As Firefox gets more popular, more developers are creating extensions for it. And some, like Aardvark, are just amazing. Aardvark allows the user to glide over a web page and see where tables, images, paragraph tags and div tags are. It also tells you the elements type, class’ or IDs. This is great for web […]