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Septiembre de 2007

Joost 1 beta - descripción

por Ross McKillop en 29 de septiembre de 2007

He estado utilizando Joost por intervalos por cerca de 4 meses ahora. Más de que encendido. No es que no tuve gusto del app - era bastante pulido y absolutamente sólido para un beta temprano. Es que no había un heck de mucho a mirar. En un cierto punto sobre las últimas semanas, han agregado muchos de los canales/contenido, y la versión más última (1 beta) es incluso más pulida que antes.

Nota: Invita no se requieren más - Joost está abierto ahora a cualquier persona que desee firmar para arriba. Cabeza justa encima a joost.com y firme para arriba.

joost 1 beta
chasque para agrandar

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Mi barra de menú de Apple

por Ross McKillop en 29 de septiembre de 2007

Mac

Como parte del Lifehacker Demuestre su poste de la barra de menú, Estoy fijando mi menú del OS X pero con algunos más detalles que enviaré a la LH (sobre todo porque implica profundamente el ligarse al otro contenido aquí en Simplehelp).


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SmallScreenX - simule las resoluciones de la pantalla en OS X

por Ross McKillop en 28 de septiembre de 2007

Mac Diseño del Web y revelador

SmallScreenX es una versión del cacao de la utilidad de la “pantalla pequeña” para el viejo OS del Mac. Simula resoluciones más pequeñas de la pantalla, que pueden ser particularmente provechosas para los diseñadores de la tela. Esta descripción le da que un funcionamiento traga en sus características principales.

smallscreenx
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Cómo recuperarse previamente suprimió archivos en Windows

por Ross McKillop en 28 de septiembre de 2007

Seguridad Windows

Esta clase particular le dirigirá al usar Restauración 2.5.14, un programa libre que puede ayudarle a recuperar los archivos que usted pudo haber suprimido accidentalmente (y quitado de/vació el compartimiento del reciclaje). [tecleo a continuar…]

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Cómo instalar Thunderbird para enviar y para recibir su Gmail

por Ross McKillop en 27 de septiembre de 2007

Email

Esto es una clase particular solicitada para Marcelo. Le llevará con los pasos a usar de Gmail del sistema para arriba Mozilla Thunderbird cliente del email. [tecleo a continuar…]

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Cool Dashboard Widget: Conference Call Omni (sports widget)

by Ross McKillop on September 27, 2007

Mac

With the hockey season fast approaching, like many Canadians, I’m starting to get psyched. It’s not enough that I have the Leafs schedule added to my Google Calendar, I have to have them on my dashboard too. Enter Conference Call Omni. Oh and yeah, it works with pro football (and lots of other sports/leagues).

maple leafs via conference call omni widget
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How to monitor your Internet bandwidth usage in OS X, redux

by Ross McKillop on September 27, 2007

Mac

Thanks to Michael, who contacted me to let me know there was in fact a better solution to the one I first provided regarding bandwidth monitoring in OS X. And that solution is SurplusMeter. This brief tutorial will get you started using SurplusMeter. [click to continue...]

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How to take great screenshots in Windows

by Ross McKillop on September 26, 2007

Blogging Web Design & Dev Windows

Why MWSnap doesn’t show up on every “top Windows freeware” list, I’ll never know. Version 3 has been around since 2002 (!?). Admittedly, it hasn’t been updated since 2002 either - it still works perfectly well in XP (I haven’t tested it in Vista yet). With the resulting screenshots you have a choice between BMP, JPG, TIFF, PNG and GIF formats, with selected color depth and quality settings - among dozens of other features. This “part tutorial, part overview” will get you started using MWSnap in no time. [click to continue...]

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How to create an .iso file in Windows

by Ross McKillop on September 26, 2007

Windows

Using the same software that allows you to extract the contents of an .iso, MagicDisc, you can create .iso files. This brief tutorial will guide you through doing just that. [click to continue...]

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More on BlogRush

by Ross McKillop on September 26, 2007

Blogging

I have to admit, I almost want this one (BlogRush) to work. It’s like the little train that could. It came out of nowhere, had huge publicity immediately, and then huge problems, immediately. Today it rolled out the promised “Flavors” feature. So now I have a slightly more appealing widget.

blogrush widget

The BlogRush CEO sent out another long-winded email today (I’m talking 50+ paragraphs) that I’ll summarize for you here:

-”we won’t rest” until it’s working great, acknowledgment of problems
-huge list of excuses for problems
-reassurances that BlogRush isn’t some passing “fad”
-huge rant full of threats to current “cheaters”
-we’re moving to a manual, human reviewed process for allowing sites into out network, and we’re going to review everyone who has signed up already
- SPECIAL NOTE TO ALL LOW-TRAFFIC MEMBERS: In the near future we’ll be giving our low-traffic members (those that need more traffic the most) the BULK of our bonus credit allocations. You’ll get a ton more bonus credits than high-traffic members because you really need it. It’s only FAIR!
-Flavors and “Filters” are now live. Filters allow you to stop certain posts from appearing in the BlogRush widget (ie. content you don’t want displayed via BlogRush).

Update: (later in the day) If you really, really want, you can read the entire thing here. And, since I wrote this post, the “Dashboard” section of BlogRush (the part that displays your ‘credits’ etc) hasn’t been functional.

Also, in the last 3 days, my BlogRush referrals has doubled to 30. But the average time spent on the site is pretty low.

Source: widget.blogrush.com
Visits: 30
Avg. Pages/Visit: 1.30
Avg. Time on Site: 00:00:21

Site Avg. Pages/Visit: 1.67
Site Avg. Time on Site: 00:01:28

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Overview: Delicious Library for OS X

by Ross McKillop on September 25, 2007

Mac

Delicious Library has been out for a while. I know this. I’ve had their site bookmarked for months, and during my last ‘bookmark cleanup’, I decided it was time to finally time to download and install it. The following article is part tutorial, part overview, and has lots of screenshots. If you’re a serious DVD, book or CD collector, you may want to take it for a spin. [click to continue...]

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Overview: Mailplane - a Gmail client for OS X (plus beta invites)

by Ross McKillop on September 25, 2007

Email Mac

Mailplane is a stand-alone Gmail client for OS X. Besides including all of the great features of Gmail, Mailplane adds extras such as built-in drag-and-drop attachments, quick import from iPhoto and iTunes, Growl notifications when you get new messages and much more.

Update: All 5 of my invites have been given away. If you’d like to sign up for an invitation to the beta program please visit http://mailplaneapp.com/beta/request_invitation.php. If you’d like an invite to the beta program, leave a comment. I have 5 invites to give away to the first 5 commenters. [click to continue...]

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How to keep the software on your Mac up to date

by Ross McKillop on September 24, 2007

Mac

From the AppFresh site:

AppFresh helps you to keep all applications (third-party and Apple), widgets, preference panes and application plugins on your Mac up to date, from one place. It works by checking the excellent iusethis.com for new versions and lets you download and install available updates easily.

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How to extract (or access) the contents of an .iso file in Windows

by Ross McKillop on September 24, 2007

Windows

If you’ve downloaded an .iso (or .bin, .img, .cif, .nrg, .img etc) and don’t want to burn it to get to its contents, you can download and install MagicDisc, a freeware app that lets you “mount” the image file as if it was a CD/DVD drive. This tutorial will guide you through doing just that. [click to continue...]

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When not to accept advertising

by Ross McKillop on September 24, 2007

Blogging

I was recently approached by someone who wanted to buy $550 worth of advertising on Simplehelp, and ended out turning them down. After seeking the advice of a number of other bloggers, here’s why I said no. [click to continue...]

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