Best Tool for the JobBest Tool for the Job. The best of what's around. Software, hardware, tips, tools and trinkets mixed with glimpses into Marcus Vorwaller's (marcus |at| vorwaller.net) life.Colors in Safari and Firefox- November 30, 2004 I spent the last week in Washington DC, New Jersey, New York City and Providence, more to come on that later possibly. Right now I'd just like to point out something I'm probably the last to notice. This is the same image in Firefox (on the left) and Safari. I had no idea that the browser affected how colors were displayed on the same computer. Interesting and I must say somewhat disturbing. Also, I'd like to point out that my second least favorite instrument is the harpsichord. Second..http://www.marcusvorwaller.com/weblog/archives/000176.html OS X's Weak Spot - The Finder- November 18, 2004 Today I'm not going to mention how my G5 has crashed about 10 times in the last week, or how frustrating that it is that Mac's are so picky about their RAM that if it doesn't come from the mothership it's almost guaranteed to cause kernel panics and everything else to go wrong. I'm not going to mention how I have to reinstall OS X because I can't boot into the operating system (after trying every tip, trick and hack possible) and how AppleCare couldn't do anything but tell me to plugin my..http://www.marcusvorwaller.com/weblog/archives/000175.html Great Design- November 17, 2004 It's been too long since I posted anything about my family. I'd just like to point out that my wife Jenny is extremely creative... There was a contest at one of the blogs she visits to basically make an Elephant out of something soft. This is what she came up with: It's so simple, yet perfect. One piece of felt folded over that forms an elephant head, complete with large ears and a trunk. Add a whimsical pocket and little white bird and you have something that could probably be made in..http://www.marcusvorwaller.com/weblog/archives/000174.html Office 2004 For Mac - Office 11- November 13, 2004 If you've been happily using Office X for OS X and are thinking about upgrading, I have one suggestion. Don't. I did and I've had problems with every program. Word 11: For some reason even though the new document compatibility panel was introduced, Word 11 is less compatible with some documents than its predecessor. This is the same document opened in Office 11 vs Office 10. It's a simple RTF document that even the built in TextEdit handled fine. The image pretty small, but you can tell..http://www.marcusvorwaller.com/weblog/archives/000173.html Mission "Choose a Wiki": Accomplished- November 12, 2004 As mentioned previously, I finally decided to learn more about and choose a Wiki. It didn't take long to figure out that C2 was the best site for comparisons. After reading that site and narrowing it down a bit, it came down to three. Twiki MediaWiki PmWiki The features I needed for my purposes were; The ability to password protect pages and groups of pages easily. File uploads User registration RSS feeds Open Source Aside from that, I really only needed the standard Wiki features,...http://www.marcusvorwaller.com/weblog/archives/000172.html The Difference Between Linux and OS X- November 11, 2004 Last night, after several months of not having a Linux box, I decided to get one back up and running. I've been following some of the new developments with Gnome and Mono and have been impressed with how clean and usable some of the apps that have come out recently are looking. I've also read quite a bit about Ubuntu, a Debian (my favorite flavor of Linux) based distro that is designed for usability and runs Gnome 2.8. I downloaded Ubuntu last night (in 17 minutes at 502 Kbps!, thank you..http://www.marcusvorwaller.com/weblog/archives/000171.html |