Update: By looking at my search traffic, I’ve come to realize that most of you are probably here looking for the Magnetix I-Coaster. Hooray for SEO. With a starting price of only $499 this 6.5″ x 6.5″ x 2″ box of G4 mac goodness is a great deal. With the…
I know there are a few tools like this out there for both mac and pc that let you do this, but here at work I use a program called Samurize to display system data, email status, and other information. The program itself is all about the information you want…
Today, my wife Amy turns 23 but that’s not all she has to celebrate. She just took the GRE today (yes, on her birthday – it was the first available date for January) and scored a 770 out of 800 on the math. In order to get into the Chemical…
It know that this is just sooo 3 years ago, but when I redesigned Jasongraphix, style switching was one of my highest priorities. I’ve been in love with the idea since I was first offered presentation options by “techno-facist” Eric Meyer on his personal site, meyerweb.com. Those days were the…
I feel like I’m much to old to be raving about a random toy I received for Christmas, but I’m really excited about the Blade Runner remote control helicopter that my parents got me. I remember last year around Christmas time, we got a lot of spam here at work…
There are few people who can inspire as much passionate commenting as Greg Storey. His latest post, Bronze is no exception. Today’s subject is the death of personal web design, or more accurately the lack of originality in personal web design. If you haven’t clicked the link and read the…
That was the first line of an email we received titled, “Your Apple Store Order”. Yes, we’ve shot the moon, gone for broke, and thrown caution to the wind. In a more literal sense, we just purchased a new 20-inch G5 iMac. OK, so we didn’t follow our plan at…
The following is an email from the VP of Accelerated Data Works, the company I work for. This is the kind of company policy that makes me wish I could stay here forever: Kent Tambling, purveyor of truth and protector of the company gruntle. OK, this trend of disgruntled former…
While perusing through the countless design/development blogs out there I came across Pointless Existence, and a very easy to implement method for reducing bandwidth usage for sites with Apache/PHP servers. Basically, the following code is placed at the top of your PHP pages: <?php ob_start(“ob_gzhandler”); ?> When the page is…