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Interesting Things

3 comments January 15th, 2007 at 01:29pm 3,463 views

I was an insomniac again last night, but I didn’t really mind. Got some good rest anyway. Me and K had some laughs in the middle of the night, mostly due to to Nikkyo falling down behind the bed repeatedly.

I watched some online tutorials at lynda.com. K is getting me the very sweet birthday present of a subscription to the online tutorial library. I am very excited about that. Some of my favorite authors/geeks/web heroes have tutorials there. A few that I was most excited about were Molly Holzschlag, Eric Meyer, and my new photoshop hero, Bert Monroy. He gave a session at macworld about photorealism in Photoshop and I was completely blown away. Inspired. Awed. He creates amazing photorealistic images from scratch (i.e. not from a photo)! Videos also included topics of high interest to me like PHP, javascript, and Ruby on Rails.

Other interesting things I found while not sleeping include:

• A site about autism and autism advocacy authored by Joel Smith. It is called This Way of Life, and includes a great description of living with autism which, with the exception of the part about ‘face blindness’, I could relate to very much.
• A great WordPress appreciation video
• Screenshots of Office 2008 for mac at tuaw.com

First impressions of OmniWeb 5:

• Coolest feature: You can add a custom search to the search bar for ANY site that has a search box!
• Per site preferences are really handy. Options include what to do with popups, where to allow images from, and use of custom css.
• I had trouble getting the WordPress song video to play from the authors website. It worked in Firefox. There was no problem getting it to play directly from the viddler site.
• It crashed for no apparent reason and did not remember my rearranged bookmarks. Very annoying!
• I have been enjoying browsing with it for the most part. I like the sidebar with screenshots for tabs. I wonder if there is a firefox extension for this. I know there is an addon for Safari that will do it (Safari Stand).
• As usual, nothing can replace Firefox for pure browsing goodness

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