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Wow, look at the public demand for iBooks in Henrico county! You’d think that would send a message to the school board. :-\ Would people stampede for used dells? Would they actually wet themselves for a dell? Yeah, no, I don’t think so.
Technorati Tags: apple, henrico
Wow! I went to the NECC podcasting event last night. It was incredible! There were over 2 times the room capacity, so they had to run the event twice! Photos are here!
So, the great news is that iTunes directly supports RSS XML feeds and will automatically download new content for you. That’s so good. I can’t even begin to tell you how good that is. High five, iTunes team. Ok, now the bug report: They were probably not expecting feeds to contain more than one audio file at a time, which is how my man D is running his podcast, in more of an album/release format with 6-10 songs per post, so only the first audio file is being downloaded. I think there’s probably room for growth here, and this is an excellent step in the absolutely right direction.
anyway, I filed this as radar bug 4165391. I doubt they’ll do anything about it for 4.9. Who knows what’s up their sleeves for 5.0 
NOT ME! That’s for sure!
Technorati Tags: itunes, podcasting
what with all this nice new traffic to my site thanks to the Make: blog, I figured it was high time to do a favicon.ico file for my site. On the mac, this is a snap, thanks to Takeshi Ogihara’s IcoMaker. Head over to his page (assuming it’s a he), and look for the link at the bottom of the page, something like: “IcoMaker Distribution Package, 84KB”. Download it and unpack it.
Grab whatever image you want to use for your favicon.ico file, open it in photoshop, the gimp, or whatever you have (uh… iphoto may work too?).
Reduce the imagesize to 16 pixels by 16 pixels and Save a copy.
(optional: Undo the downsizing, and re-resize the image down to 32 x 32 pixels, and save another copy. Undo the resizing again and re-re-resize the image down to 48×48, and save a third copy)
Open up Takeshi’s excellent program and select “File -> new document”. A small multi-paned window will appear with six small windows.
select “File -> Include Image…” and navigate to where your copy (or copies) are. Choose the 16 x 16 pixel copy. A dialog box will appear giving you the option to reduce the colors down to 16 colors (or just hit “ok” to leave it in as many colors as your image was in, up to 256). Depending on what you chose to do, one of the six small windows will now be populated with your image.
repeat as necessary for the other open slots, depending on how thorough you want your favicon file to be. (I just did the 16×16 @ 16 colors window, and the 32×32 @ 256 colors window.. should be good enough, I figure)
Save the file as “favicon.ico” and drop it in an accessible place for your webserver, most probably at the root level of your webserver’s documents directory. (on the Mac OS X and OS X Server, using stock Apache 1.3, it will be: /Library/Webserver/Documents/ … on apache 2.x, I believe it would be /Library/apache2/htdocs/ … If you’ve come this far, it’s probably time for you to learn where the root documents directory is on your webserver.
the last step is to put the following code in your <head> tag of your web page:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
that’s it, folks!
We need a widget that would let you subscribe to a set of records for a community, say, for your office building, or your apartment complex, or your city… kind of like craigslist, but on a micro-level, and in a dashboard widget.
For instance:
* drag a microBB widget to the dashboard
* flip it around
* enter the tinyurl for your community’s record set
* flip it back around
-> all the active records pop up on post-its or as a table of records (whatever you like)
-> records expire after n-days (or not? archive?)
-> records can contain contact info and ichat hooks (click to chat about this want-ad)
-> records can be anonymous (gripe box)
Apple RSS feeds now with dashboard widgets, automator actions, and spotlight plugins, woot!
