Month: August 2005

Yahoo! Launches Beta Publisher Network For Small- and Medium-Sized Publishers

I've been waiting for this for a while. Now that Yahoo! has an offering comparable to AdSense, I can eat our own dog food. Actually, I've had YPN ads on my blog for a few weeks now; I was part of the alpha testing. The first...

Productivity

The effect of stress on the brain

Fascinating stuff on how stress can affect the brain. The most interesting part for me: Gary Evans and environmental psychologists at Cornell found that low-level noise in open-style offices seems to result in higher levels of...

General

Mozilla Corporation

Interesting. The Mozilla Foundation has announced the creation of the Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary that will continue the development, distribution and marketing of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird....

GeneralMac

Mac program: MenuCalendarClock

Just found a great piece of shareware/freeware (basic features free; advance features cost money) that puts a nice little iCal integrated pop-down calendar into your menu bar. I had been wanting something like this for a while,...

GeneralTreo

Treo: Shortcut5

From treoAddicts If you miss the ability to edit your own shortcuts on the Treos (my Treo 650 lets me invoke the pre-defined shortcuts using the shortcut symbol, e.g.: s+Alt+Down+Down+Down+L+U = â€œLunchâ€ but...

Treo

Treo: Stuck Shift Key

From treoAddicts: A few weeks ago I started experiencing problems where my Treo 650 would become totally unresponsive - none of the keys would work. Even a reset didnâ€™t help. I was convinced my Treo had died but I...

GeneralRuby

Setting up Ruby on Rails to work with Apache and FastCGI

Up until today, I had only been running Ruby on Rails apps inside the built-in WEBrick web server, which is really slow. Today, I set up my Rails apps to work with Apache. If you just run them as CGIs inside Apache, this is also...