Macromedia and Adobe
Unless you live under a rock (or, you know, don't work in the Design and/or Web field), you've already heard about Adobe's plans to buy Macromedia.
astormWhen to Buy a Site
Good post over at Webmaster World on when/how to buy a site (from a business standpoint).
astormThe Dilemma of Advertising
I decided to run AdSense ads on “my” USGS site for two reasons. The first is an Internet classic, “Defray the Cost of Hosting”. The second was getting to know AdSense, since it’s the defacto standard when it comes to ad
astormApple Store
Looks like Rochester is getting an Apple Store, if this monster listing for a "Mac Genius" at Eastview Mall is to be believed.
astormNext Time, I’ll Pay Attention
Your IP Adress is: An older feature, disabled in this age of rugged, clumsy CMS systems.
astormApplescript Eval
The eval feature found in many modern scripting languages is noticeably absent from Applescript. It has the do script command, but because of Applescript’s screwy (to me) scoping, you can’t call user defined functions from within the do script string.
astormGoogle Maps
Despite the fact that the Google developers were too lazy to make it work in Safari, the new Beta of Google Maps is really nice. (Firefox/IE/maybe Opera only).
astormUSGS photography
I'm testing out some framework scripts with a new project. Lots of public domain photography to do with what you will. Have fun, and let me know if you manage to break anything.
astormApple Hardware Installation instructions
A very useful Apple support page that gives detailed instructions (PDF and Quicktime movies) of how to install certain hardware elements on your Mac.
astormOS X Routine Maintenance
One of the great things about OS X is it's based on the rock solid BSD operating system.
astormResetting the “Frontpage Extensions” password on a RAQ XTR
Oh how I love the Sun/Cobalt (discontinued, "end of lifed") family of
astorm.netrc and FTP
Here's the most straightforward description I've seen for using .netrc to help automate FTP command (in *nix land).
astormwebkit2png
A dandy little python script that will take a screenshot of (almost*) any website. It uses Webkit, so it’s OS X only.
astormPhotoshop Actions and Droplets
Before it falls off the front page, there’s a nice introduction to droplets and a Photoshop scripting plug-in over at ask metafilter.
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