Gadgetopia

Funny you should bring up Vermeer Technologies. While trying to beat a Visual Studio web project into working yesterday, I did a little network sniffing to find out what FrontPage and Visual Studio actually do to make things work. I'd always thought it was WebDAV that made them go, but ...

Microsoft Efforts Don't Slice Spam: News from PC Magazine: Microsoft is embarking on an ambitious anti-spam campaign, but many are accusing Redmond itself of making the problem worse: "...Microsoft itself is taking heat for assisting the targets of its actions. Apparently much unsolicited e-mail comes from the company's own services ...

ImageWell: Neat idea for a little utility. It's lightweight image editor designed specifically to modify images then post them to a server. Via Reinvented who call it a "bloggers best friend." ImageWell is the easy way to edit, rotate, crop and resize your image and upload it to your iDisk ...

Macromedia - Contribute: Contribute 3 is out. Macromedia claims "300 enhancements," but I can't find a list. There's an impressive list of features here, but it doesn't break out what's new in this version. I did see some neat stuff that I hadn't seen before, like FrontPage Extension compatibility, WEBDAV ...

While Google is busy trying to allay fears that their free 1GB mail service is too intrusive, SpyMac has already implemented it. And without the content scanning and advertising that Google is planning! Spymac's free membership includes: 1 GB e-mail account, 350 MB combined storage, personal blog, forum, gallery, auctions ...

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but I got to thinking today about the major protocol and language that drive the Web HTTP and HTML and I reflected on the fact that this pair is essentially frozen in time. There hasn't been a major update to either of ...

WS_FTP Professional 2006 - What's New: Ipswitch just released the lastest version of WS_FTP, one of the most venerable FTP clients around. They come out with a new version every year, and I keep wondering what else they've thought up each time around. Looking over their feature list this year, ...

It's time for applications to start running off of remote configuration files. By this, I mean have applications store their settings in a file they access via an HTTP call, instead of on the local file system. Take NewsGator, for example. At the office, I add and remove subscriptions daily. ...

If you've read this blog, you may have picked up on the fact that I'm a bit of an open-source advocate. I far prefer to use open-source solutions wherever possible. By and large, open-source doesn't get enough credit. I've run Linux and KDE as my primary work environment on my ...