It’s All Greek To Me: 15 Lorem Ipsum Resources

Written on February 14, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 14 people have commented

Web designers, font purveyors, professional paginators and even application developers need sample data to test their layouts, creations and algorithms. “Lorem ipsum” has been the de-facto standard when placing non-distracting text into test areas and has been shown to exhibit characteristics of standard lettter, word and space distribution. While one could just keep a copy [...]

Media Temple Caters to iPhone

Written on August 08, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 3 people have commented

Joining the ranks of iPhone-specific web applications, is the web hosting company, Media Temple (mt). Their angle is to offer iPhone-toting customers, access to control panel services for their (mt) hosted websites.
Buy Domains, pay bills, reboot your server, and a slew of other options await the (mt)/iPhone crowd. I don’t rock the [...]

Snapz + Skitch = Jing

Written on July 19, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 3 people have commented

Alright, so while the title of this post is more or less accurate, the polish and full suite of capabilities are not there. But Jing certainly does a nice job of combining the power of Snapz Pro X’s video capture abilities with the simplicity of Skitch to grab screen captures.
Jing’s image editor is [...]

Challenge: Make a Better .Mac

Written on June 28, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 7 people have commented

So for everyone who’s ever complained about the .Mac service, someone is finally trying to do something about it. The notMac Challenge is offering up a choice bounty (at least $10k!) for anyone who can develop a .Mac alternative that’s as easy to use as Apple’s offering, but robust enough to be useful for [...]

Screencast: Leveraging Services

Written on June 15, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 23 people have commented

Services are a part of OS X that many users either don’t even know about, or forget to use. They are a powerful bunch of actions that you can apply to your workflow - mostly in cases where you’re working with text.
In this Screencast, I’ll show you firstly, how to trim that over-grown hedge [...]

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