Tag Archive for 'needful-things'



spare time while you have a cold …

// Anne, «may the force be with you.»

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To Read:

Teutonicus

«[…] Die Rede ist hier von einer kompletten deutschsprachigen WordPress-Installation. Eine ohne wenn und aber.

[…] keine aufgeblasene Pimp-, sondern vielmehr eine möglichst fehlerfreie und saubere PureVersion. […]»

zu finden bei: Kylaloo » WordPressus Teutonicus

ich bleibe aber trotzdem — erstmal — bei der englischen Original Version. Gibt für mich trotzdem genug anzupassen ohne auch noch ein Blick auf die Sprache werfen zu müssen: meine Modifikationen und Veränderungen des K2 Themes zum Beispiel.

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FinderPop is really back!

FinderPop is still a beta-version (1.9.9b4) but hey, it’s back!

Shutterbook

Another «Online Photo Sharing» service like Flickr (now owned by Yahoo) — well, let us see what happen next. Maybe they get bought by Google. Anyway, the service looks nice and the usability is very good. It’s still beta but full functional. Take a look at Shutterbook and decide for yourself.

open the box!

Can you help me discover more music that I’ll like? — « […] For almost six years now, we have been hard at work on the Music Genome Project. It’s the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Together our team of thirty musician-analysts have been listening to music, one song at a time, studying and collecting literally hundreds of musical details on every song. It takes 20-30 minutes per song to capture all of the little details that give each recording its magical sound – melody, harmony, instrumentation, rhythm, vocals, lyrics … and more – close to 400 attributes! We continue this work every day to keep up with the incredible flow of great new music coming from studios, stadiums and garages around the country.
[…]
The Music Genome Project was founded by musicians and music-lovers. We believe in the value of music and have a profound respect for those who create it. We like all kinds of music, from the most obtuse bebop, to the most tripped-out drum n bass, to the simplest catchy pop tune. Our mission is to help YOU connect with the music YOU like. […]»

They done it right. It’s working very good — close to perfect. At least with my taste — and people who know me know that my taste is differently — based on a big cd archive. check out if it’s working for you at: Pandora

Pingoat

«What in the world is Pingoat? — Pingoat is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, hey crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog’s popularity.»

Pingoat – The stable of all pings

Chapter Tracks

reading The Tao of Mac I found something useful:
«A chapter track is a type of text track that provides an index to chapters or sections of your movie. The list of chapters, each of which links to a part of the movie, appears as a title or a pop-up menu in the movie controller.»

for reference and tutorials check out following links:

must have : css widget

That widget for the Dashboard of 10.4 is a must have for web devs:
«The SeeSS Widget is a quick and handy reference sheet for 140 CSS (1, 2 & 3) properties (proprietary extensions are not included). Each property includes information on its inheritance, CSS compliancy, Safari support, all values (including defaults), some examples and an extensive description. A link to the appropriate W3.org pages is included as well, for even more additional information.»

SeeSS – Dashboard – Reference

Search Engine Ranking Factors

SEOmoz | Search Engine Ranking Factors