Joachim Fornallaz

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Archive for October, 2005

Flock

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

After reading the news about Flock on CNET News, I installed the social browser based on Firefox. Because I wanted to check out all its features, I signed up for a del.icio.us account since I already had all other web accounts needed to take fully advantage of Flock. It’s really nice to see how fast [...]

Dashboard Annoyance

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

The Dashboard Widget Manager Apple introduced in Mac OS X 10.4.2 is nice but I also think they made it less obvious how to find and install new Widgets. Before Mac OS X 10.4.2 there was a button called “more widgets” which took you to the Dashboard Widget Download site. This button appeared when you [...]

Total Integration

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

What do you think of it? I created a special theme for WordPress, so this blog fits visually into my website. As for the site navigation bar on the left, it’s a small PHP include directive which displays the site structure and highlights the current location.

Good Beatles Cover

Saturday, October 8th, 2005

Yesterday, I discovered a cover song from the Beatles classic “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” performed by the The Drowners on the iTunes Music Store. While this song is nice, I don’t like most of the other songs on the album it’s on. I preferred older albums like “Is There Something On Your Mind?” which [...]

New snapmania release!

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

We have just released a new version of snapmania which now features a blog posting module for individual images or web albums. Guess who developed this feature?- Oh, and I forgot: Perl still sucks!