Category Archives: Computer machine

I know, I know.  Finally.

My profile (I think).

Hey, if you want to keep on being my friend, click this link, then click the download link, then never use Internet Explorer again.

All right?

On a related note, the new website is coming along nicely, if you don’t count the entire day I just wasted getting it to work on a certain non-standards-compliant browser. If you have any design suggestions, or if you’re not a fan of the warm, soothing earth tones provided by the color brown, feel free to comment. Hurry, though — I want to be done with the site by the end of the week.

UPDATE:  Forgot the link.

I just spent a lot of time reworking the Salt and Light website to make it easier to navigate.  The nearly-finished front page looks quite nice in Firefox and Safari.  I figured it would need a little tweaking to work in Internet Explorer, but to my horror, I found out tonight that IE totally mangles it.  So I’ve got a ways to go, unfortunately….

I find coding websites to be one of the most rewarding yet frustrating things that I know of.

In the last week, I’ve found several programs and utilities that are proving indispensable for my new computer:

• Eudora Mailbox Cleaner — Transferred my e-mails from my Windows copy of Thunderbird to Apple Mail.
• Feisar iSync plugin — I bought the Sony Ericsson W300i plugin to sync my new cell phone’s address book with my Mac using Bluetooth.  (iSync doesn’t include a profile for the W300i.)  This beats the pants off of using a USB cord.
• USB Overdrive — Allows me to program the buttons of my Logitech MediaPlay Cordless Mouse so that they actually work properly.  (Logitech doesn’t make any Mac drivers.)
• SizzlingKeys — Allows universal keyboard shortcuts for iTunes.  In combination with USB Overdrive, now I can get my mouse buttons to properly control iTunes, no matter what program I’m using — I simply assign the mouse buttons to these shortcuts.  SizzlingKeys also pops up a transparent notice whenever a new track comes on, which is pretty snazzy looking.
• Mail Act-On — I was seriously debating whether to dump Apple’s Mail program since it doesn’t allow me to write HTML e-mails (with bulleted lists, etc.) and has been involved in the suspicious disappearance of some of my e-mails.  However, this utility is really sweet and has probably tipped the scales in Mail’s favor.  It allows me to hit a hotkey [`], then any other key to which I have assigned a rule.  For example, I hit [`] and then [k] to move a selected message to the “KSBC” folder.  This is a godsend for when I need to use the trackpad and struggle to drag e-mails to the right folder.
• Mail.appetizer — Displays pop-up notifications when new e-mails arrive.  The nice thing is that it shows a picture of the sender, too, if I’ve put one in my address book.
• Firefox — Duh!  Windows users should have this browser installed, too!  Apple’s Safari browser is too bare-bones…though it does have the advantage of handling PDF files in-browser, which Firefox can’t do on Intel Macs….

Just thought you’d like to know!