Aviary, a slick collection of browser-based design and editing tools that I wrote about last February, is now free. From the Aviary blog: We have long felt that to better serve our core mission our complete feature set needed to be in the hands of everyone – not just those who could afford it. Fortunately, [...]
When I first installed VMWare Fusion on my Mac last year, I was surfing around for some free and interesting applications to try out on Windows to test performance. One of the apps I came across was a desktop search alternative called SpaceTime3D. I was intrigued, and E-mailed the developer to ask if a Mac [...]
Aviary, a collection of online design and editing tools, is an amazing technical feat. A couple of weeks ago, Aviary brought their online vector editor out of Beta. It’s called Raven, and it joins, well, an aviary of other online applications: Phoenix (image editor), Peacock (dubbed a ‘visual laboratory’), Toucan (color manager), and Phoenix (an [...]
I finally got around to setting up a few services on my Mac related to dynamic DNS hosting. Having done so, I’m asking myself why I didn’t do this long ago. So, what is dynamic DNS? Here’s a brief and imperfect overview. Let’s start with DNS, or Domain Naming System. This, broadly speaking, is a [...]
I’m on the road this week in Washington, DC. Away from my desktop Mac, I’ve been thinking about data synchronization and the cost we should expect to pay for it. It seems that everyone is coming out with syncing solutions, and most of these solutions include web-based access to data. And soon, we can expect [...]
Firefox Release Candidate 3 is now out. It’s not a big update. In fact, there’s only one change. The nice thing is that one more of my favorite Firefox Extensions is now available for the new version of Firefox. Delicious Bookmarks is a cool little add-on that allows you to quickly and effortlessly add new [...]
