tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339012702011-07-08T20:36:10.708-07:00William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33901270.post-57588543766888966892007-04-12T06:10:00.001-07:002007-04-12T06:10:37.421-07:00New study finds "many adolescent "metalheads" are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders." Haha, validation.<br></br><br></br><a href='http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/03/21/nmetal21.xml'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/music/Heavy_metal_music_linked_with_gifted_students'>digg story</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33901270-5758854376688896689?l=metfuel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33901270.post-67931868401725534002007-02-20T12:32:00.000-08:002007-02-20T12:39:33.242-08:00head on over to <a href="http://ridethebandwagon.com/">Bandwagon</a> and check it out. the will be launching in a couple of days. it is a way for you to back up your itunes library online. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_SuvqLuWRp4g/RdtbDh_YBJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/R-Ikqy1ZoN8/s1600-h/392021925_6abad29d98.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_SuvqLuWRp4g/RdtbDh_YBJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/R-Ikqy1ZoN8/s320/392021925_6abad29d98.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5033717124738581650" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33901270-6793186840172553400?l=metfuel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33901270.post-89331702362888809912007-02-17T14:10:00.000-08:002007-02-17T14:11:25.828-08:00I am going to start blogging very shortly after a long time away. <br />Hopefully I can share something with the rest of the world that <br />will be usefull.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33901270-8933170236288880991?l=metfuel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33901270.post-1161691672259199082006-10-24T05:07:00.000-07:002006-10-29T09:56:46.674-08:00Title says it all... get rid of those annoying ads with a simple cascading style sheet.<br/><br/><a href="http://homepage.mac.com/samtherocker2002/Blog/Archives/4.html">read more</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://digg.com/apple/Safari_users_Banish_those_ads">digg story</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33901270-116169167225919908?l=metfuel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33901270.post-1161355715622910772006-10-20T07:48:00.000-07:002006-10-29T09:56:46.545-08:00Huge List of CSS Tools : Fonts, Forms, Layout, Formatters and Optimizers<br/><br/><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/09/02/list-of-css-tools/">read more</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://digg.com/design/List_of_CSS_Tools">digg story</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33901270-116135571562291077?l=metfuel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33901270.post-1160575939690825302006-10-11T07:12:00.000-07:002006-10-29T09:56:46.488-08:00Hey guys, PS Brushes has finally launched, so if your ever looking for a certain photoshop brush be sure to check us out, we have over 170 brushes indexed and growing daily.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.psbrushes.net">read more</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://digg.com/design/Amazing_Photoshop_Brush_Resource_Site">digg story</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33901270-116057593969082530?l=metfuel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33901270.post-1160059196213213462006-10-05T07:39:00.000-07:002006-10-29T09:56:46.425-08:00An amazing idea by Cameron Westland at MDA: Realistic seasons, weather conditions, daytime or night, moon phases etc. make your desktop resemble your real life environments. Fully customizable. check out the beautiful concept artwork!<br /><br />This app is still in the running for My Dream App so head over there and find out when the next voting is to vote for it. <br/><br/><a href="http://mydreamapp.com/contestants/view/cameronwestland/">read more</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://digg.com/apple/Revolutionary_new_Desktop_app_concept_for_OS_X_AMAZING_screens">digg story</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33901270-116005919621321346?l=metfuel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33901270.post-1160058788470148072006-10-05T07:33:00.000-07:002006-10-29T09:56:46.362-08:00"Icon genres help communicate what you can do with an application before you open it. Applications are classified by role and user applications, software utilities, and so on�and each category, or genre, has its own icon style."<br/><br/><a href="http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGIcons/chapter_14_section_2.html">read more</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://digg.com/apple/Apple_How_to_design_appropriate_icons_for_your_OS_X_apps">digg story</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33901270-116005878847014807?l=metfuel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33901270.post-1158075732163048042006-09-12T08:42:00.000-07:002006-10-29T09:56:46.301-08:00A list of 50 design resources with descriptions. Some of the resources include CSS galleries, usability sites, blogs, web standards sites, tools, color wheels and typography sites.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/my-50-favorite-design-resources.html">read more</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://digg.com/design/50_Helpful_Web_Design_Resources">digg story</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33901270-115807573216304804?l=metfuel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33901270.post-1158071457160493822006-09-12T06:57:00.000-07:002006-10-29T09:56:46.237-08:00Yesterday I had posted a blog that I had dugg from about <a href="http://www.apple.com/dotmac/">.Mac</a>.<br />Even as I was posting that and at various points with rumors flying around about the<br />dawn of <a href="http://www.apple.com/">Apple's</a> release of an online video store I have been thinking to myself that<br />.Mac is going to have to see an increase in at least storage capacity.<br />There was a slight increase from 100 mb to 250 mb, and then there was a jump to 1GB<br />with the introduction of groups, and the ideaology that <a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/">iTunes</a> users are going to have to<br />back up their digital downloads.<br />My prediction I think is going to rival <a href="http://www.playfuls.com/news_03797_AOL_Beats_Google_at_Free_E_mail_Space_5_GB_from_September.html">AOL's recent announcment</a> that all users will get a<br />5GB storage space. I am not exactly sure if .Mac will be upgraded today but it is likley that<br />it will be in the near future if Apple wants to keep any kind of a paying customer base for<br />it's online services.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What I would like to see for .Mac </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Email: </span>The number one thing is that email from apple should be free. As pointed out to me by a friend having a @mac.com address is pretty darn cool. I mean seriously email has become free pretty much everywhere. 2gb standard has been set by Google and I think is pretty reasonable for storing all of the emails you want to be saved. It is excessive though if you never save your emails, but there are some people who keep them. An email only account would be a very nice addition.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Storage:</span> Something that has been a big issue with .Mac is storage, for both email and files. The .Mac service was quickly mimicked and enhanced by the arrival of the <a href="http://www.spymac.com/">Spymac</a> community. They have two levels of storage; for free you get 1Gb of file space and your webpages have banners, or you can pay $25 a year for 3gb of storage for files and various other perks.<br />I think that if apple takes this route that it would work very well for them. It would probably get usuers to buy into the paid service after using their free service. To get into the game though I think that what was said ealier about AOL's 5GB should be the maximum storage of any free accounts. Then the paid service would go up from there. I do not think that the price should stay as high as it has been though. Currenly I use dream host and for about what I was paying for .Mac I get an online storage capacity of 20Gb. I think that for about 10Gb of storage the price should be around $60 a year, and that any additional GB of storage that you would want would cost around $10.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Web Services: </span>Last time I was a member of .Mac you could not due much with your server as far as using it as a webserver to run a full fledged website. Meaning that you could not use php scripts, or do anything with Mysql. It would be a big advantage for Apple to implament more web creation cabapilities into .Mac to make it a big selling point. Yes I know that the main purpose of .Mac is to sync and save all of your personal information in to have it all in one tidy location, but there are people out there who would like to have more power than running a base website that you can't do much with.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Benefits: </span>The last thing that I would like to point out is one of the biggest selling points to .Mac seems to have dwindled to almost non existant. Maybe it's the fact that I am no longer a member of .Mac and do not hear about any offers. The thing that was cool about .Mac as a bonus was that you got offered free software, or pretty sizable discounts on software and or hardware (that's where I got my external hard drive that saved my digital life a couple of times.) At this point I don't think anything is offered to .Mac members anymore. I did here of an Apple loops sample being distributed on the site, but other than that the benefits are pretty much non existant. The ressurection of constant offerings would be another plus for .Mac.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction of New Things:</span> Something nice would be the introduction of online applications like Googles Spreadsheet and Picassa. <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/">iCal</a> already can be integrated with .Mac, and the experience has been enhanced with <a href="http://phpicalendar.net/">phpicalender</a> (on servers that use php). Some newer ideas that tie into Apple's applications would be a welcomed addition to the .Mac experience.<br /><br /><br />Today in about an hour and a hlaf we will see new products emerge from Apple's briliant mind. In the bunch I am doubtful an upgrade to .Mac will happen, but if it does than my short time with dreamhost will come to an end if the deal is just right.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33901270-115807145716049382?l=metfuel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33901270.post-1157997097225901892006-09-11T10:51:00.000-07:002006-10-29T09:56:46.176-08:00I am posting this here becasue I took the step to leave.Mac behind and go with alternatives. I was infact lucky to find a webhost that was having a special, and my email was switched to google's services. <br />Click on the link above to read on.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.macrecon.com/2006/09/08/leaving-mac/">read more</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://digg.com/apple/Leaving_dot_Mac">digg story</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33901270-115799709722590189?l=metfuel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33901270.post-1157568392483466542006-09-06T11:46:00.000-07:002006-10-29T09:56:46.119-08:00Rumor has it that the Apple September 12 Media Event is going to give us a whole bunch of video and video related products. One of these is the Video-Enabled Airport Express. Basically an upgrade of the current AE, which streams iTunes music over 802.11b. An upgraded version that supports video will no doubt be 802.11b/g.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/wireless/videoenabled-airport-express-coming-sept-12-198599.php">read more</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://digg.com/gadgets/Video_Enabled_Airport_Express_Coming_Sept_12">digg story</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33901270-115756839248346654?l=metfuel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33901270.post-1157472183848544952006-09-05T09:03:00.000-07:002006-10-29T09:56:46.040-08:00This site's got a bunch of themes for Rapidweaver ported from OpenWebDesign.org.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.burlingtonvotes2006.com/rwthemes/">read more</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://digg.com/apple/OpenWebDesign_themes_for_Rapidweaver">digg story</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33901270-115747218384854495?l=metfuel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33901270.post-1157471543896545142006-09-05T08:52:00.000-07:002006-10-29T09:56:45.972-08:00BitRocket is a Native BitTorrent client for Mac OS X. At the heart of it's core resides the powerful libtorrent BitTorrent library. BitRocket is aimed to be a good alternative to other Mac OS BitTorrent clients.<br />And it Rock.. Blows transmission away for now, so check it out !<br/><br/><a href="http://www.bitrocket.org/">read more</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://digg.com/apple/New_torrent_client_for_OSX_Released_Bitrocket">digg story</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33901270-115747154389654514?l=metfuel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33901270.post-1157471464964810432006-09-05T08:51:00.000-07:002006-10-29T09:56:45.897-08:00Here is a post for those of you who don't know about using your gmail accounts in a non "standard" way of just a webmail application.<br/><br/><a href="http://cyber-knowledge.net/blog/2006/09/05/gmail-hackstips/">read more</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://digg.com/tech_news/GMail_Hacks_Tips">digg story</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33901270-115747146496481043?l=metfuel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>William Laughlinnoreply@blogger.com0