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Damn Software gnomes

Nick Bradbury bemoans silly, forgetful users:

It usually turns out that the person downloaded a trial version, installed it, then completely forgot about it. When they find it again, they assume that I somehow secretly installed it on their computer. Like I'm some sort of software gnome who visits people during the night, installing my products while they sleep.

Some people believe that there computer has an agenda of its own. These people worry me.

Hal, open the podbay doors.

Hey, Scripting Guy! Why no RSS?

Microsoft's Scripting Guys have a new feature called Hey, Scripting Guy!, in which they answer a scripting question a day.

Unlike most technical writers the Scripting Guys write in an easy, relaxed style that is informative and entertaining.

My only beef with the site (do people still use that phrase?) is that there is no feed.

Come on Microsoft, do you really expect me to visit this webpage every day? Perhaps Scoble can pull some strings for Philadelphia's Most Influential Blogger™ and get them to put up a feed, and perhaps interview them for Channel9.

I want my RSS (or Atom)!

A Few Macromedia Links for you

• An Easier Way to Create and Consume Coldfusion Components and Webservices with Dreamweaver MX
• CFC Best Practices: Component Functions and Function Invocation
• Building a Server Dashboard Application with ColdFusion-Powered Flex
• Case Study: The Development Life Cycle of a Flex Application
• Building an Object-Oriented User Interface with ColdFusion MX
• Introduction to ColdFusion Components

Five Habits for Successful Regular Expressions [Aug. 21, 2003]

I have to read this article.

I bought a book on Regular Expressions, and I know they will be very useful to me. Alas, I am not sure how to use them.

Maybe this will help: ONLamp.com: Five Habits for Successful Regular Expressions [Aug. 21, 2003]

Stupid Omniweb Tricks

Stevenf points out a neat feature of Omniweb. You can view source, change the source, and then see the changes reflected in the original webpage.

Read this entry to see what Steve did with this information: ~stevenf: View in Source Editor

I am going to have to try this when I get home.

NetNewsWire

This post is being brought to you by Netnewswire, possibly the best $40 I have spent on software in a good long time.

If anyone out there is reading this anymore, and you are interested in me posting more frequently, than give Netnewswire a round of applause. Not only is it a great RSS reader, but it is a fantastic blogging tool.

Check Off

Check Off seems like the program I have been waiting for. For awhile I have been toying with creating a web based to do list for myself, to track what I have to do and what I am not doing. I am going to give this application a try and see what happens.

SSH

An informative page about SSH tunneling over FTP

Free Fonts

More free fonts

I haven't looked around on this site, but it seems like it has lots of free fonts! Good enough for me.

Tabbed Safari

Think Secret is reporting tabbed browsing is coming to Safari! If this is true Safari will soon be my default browser of choice.

Check it out.