Category: Tools

Here is a much bigger list of Weblog tools.

Tom Fürstner is annoyed that Frontier for OS X does not work well with AppleEvents and Cocoa applications. I don’t know if that is a Cocoa issue or an issue with an outdated implementation in Frontier. Anyway: He was not really in love with the FTP implementation in Frontier, so he found a way to…

Derrick Story describes applications to record movies with iSight: iRecordnow is a little application that allows direct video recording from an iSight webcam. BTV does this as well (and more).

If you’re running a weblog these tools might be interesting to you: BlogchangebotBlog Change Bot is a blog monitoring service which updates you via AOL Instant Messanger when a blog you are interested is updated. It is available with the screen name blogchangebot on AOL IM. BlogPlanetWith BlogPlanet, updating your blog while you’re on the…

I just learned about the addedValues Plug-In for Manila. It is a successor for the metaData Plug-In (and obviously a complete rewrite). Looks very interesting!

FlyingMeat offers a $10 shareware called VooDooPad that offers a Wiki-style notes system. Runrev releases Revolution 2.1 – a software development enviroment that offers true “write once run everywhere”.

PC Magazine reviews the Weblogger.com Manila service: Weblogger isn’t as simple to use as the other services we reviewed, but it offers a superb level of template control for business professionals. You can stick with one of the themes or customize all the elements on the page

Horst Prillinger demonstrates that Apple iSight camera is adapting the color balance according to the objects it photographes. This is causing an annoying effect. DV cameras have this »auto white balance« as well, but I think they do a much better job than iSight.

Gordon Meyer had a good experience with Tinderbox while listening to a talk to Douglas Engelbart. If only Tinderbox would have more scripting-power it would be a superb tool for live-blogging.

The current reference in the »How small can a blog tool get« contest: Xblog.

This is ridiculous. So who can explain me that the biggest Software company in the world while implementing a worldwide authentification system leaves a public accessible script can be used to hack any Passport account in seconds? Unbelievable.

What I like about OS X is that there is extremly good, well crafted and well designed software (at affordable prices). Just to name some: Proteus, Snapz Pro, NetNewsWire, Tinderbox, BBEdit, Spring Desktop, Transmit, Launchbar.

Dave Winer is working on Trackback for Manila. Trackback is an automatic reverse linking between weblog entries and was first introduced by MovableType.

There is someone called Bob Bradley working on a implementation Rendezvous for Windows. It is a technology that allows self-configurating TCP/IP-networks and -services. It was outlined by many people under the codename ZeroConf and Apple is the first major OS vendor to include it in MacOS X.

FmPro Migrator – Migrates FileMaker to MySQL and Oracle (including images). [freshmeat.net]

I took a first look into Typo3 today. I tried to add a user and create a page. I think it is a powerful system, but the user interface is just ridiculous. It’s really something a feature fanatic developer can come up with. Contribute is nice (and an OSX version is ahead), but it is…

Jake Savin is moving forward with Manila. Very good. It was just few weeks ago that I noted Manila was not updated for quite some time. Lawrence Lee is very responsive to the community if there are ideas how to improve. He also offers quick help if there are problems. What is very encouraging here…

PictureMe is just the missing link between iPhoto and the MacOS X addressbook. You can add addressbokk portraits from any picture file via drag&drop. I always wondered why Apple did not include that into iPhoto from the beginning. It’s so obvious.

I just gave Phoenix for OS X a try. It seems to be a very nice browser, stripped down to what a browser should have. Mozilla got such a bloated heavy beast. Phoenix still consumes more than twice as much RAM than Safari and still more than Mozilla. It also has some bugs and interface…

»Our research seeks to bring modern information management and retrieval technologies to the average computer user in order to make computers a more compelling place for users to interact with their information.« According to Katharina, Haystack is a kind of »Google for the Desktop« with an own user interface to access the database. [feedme News]