Post Category: Mac OS X — By Katie Dixon on August 30, 2005 @ 5:10 am

Apple - Support - Downloads - Safari Update 2.0.1

Safari Update 2.0.1

About this update
Safari version 2.0.1 for Mac OS X Tiger improves website compatibility,
application stability and support for 3rd party web applications.

The installer will guide you through the steps necessary to install Safari 2.0.1


Post Category: Design — By Katie Dixon on August 29, 2005 @ 1:30 pm

BrowserCam Annual Membership III - Fundable

This has been done twice already and this is yet again another copied effort since I missed both group actions. A year long membership at browsercam.com costs $480.00. This gives us 25 user accounts. I am proposing that 25 people throw in $19.20 for their 1/25th share of the membership cost. Once I have raised $479.40 I will purchase the annual membership and setup an account for all the participants. Keep in mind that their daily price for one user is $19.95, which is more than what you will need to pay for a year under this plan — obviously, you can’t beat this deal.


Post Category: Web — By Katie Dixon on August 26, 2005 @ 4:50 pm

Technorati Profile


Post Category: Technology — By Katie Dixon on August 23, 2005 @ 10:29 pm

Google Talk

They say talk is cheap. Google thinks it should be free. Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for
free–anytime, anywhere in the world. Google Talk offers you:
Choice: Get in touch how and when you want to–over email, IM or a call

Quality: Talk through your computer but hear your friends as if they were in the same room

Convenience: Your Gmail contacts are pre-loaded into Google Talk so inviting or talking to your friends is just a click
away

Google Talk is in beta and requires a Gmail username and password.


Post Category: Mac OS X — By Katie Dixon on August 22, 2005 @ 10:19 pm

Macworld: Feature: 50 Mac Gems

50 Mac Gems
New and updated reviews of awesome free and low-cost software
By Dan Frakes

Every month, the Mac Gems print column and Weblog highlight reviews of the best free and low-cost applications for OS X. But with new utilities released daily, it’s impossible to keep up with them all through just a few featured titles each week. So in this three-part series, we bring you a super-sized batch of cool software bargains—50 programs that you may have missed or that are worth another look. And they’re all just a few mouse-clicks away.


Post Category: Technology, Mac OS X — By Katie Dixon on August 18, 2005 @ 1:07 pm

Install Linux on your iPod - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Install Linux on your iPod - easily
Posted Aug 18, 2005, 12:00 PM ET by Dave Caolo

The Linux on iPod project has been around for a while now. With Linux running on your iPod, you can do all sorts of fun things not available with Apple’s iPod operating system, like play videos, make use of additional audio file formats, play Doom, and so on. Look here for the official FAQ. The only problem has been that the process of installing it is a bit of a bear. Kevin Wojniak, creator of Pod2Go, comes to the rescue with a double-click installer that will have your 4th Generation iPod (including iPod minis and color iPods) dual-booting in no time. Just note that the version of iPod Linux it intstalls is very much in development, as is the installer itself. So back up first (but you knew that).


Post Category: Projects, Design, Recent Projects — By Katie Dixon on August 15, 2005 @ 5:26 am

Cobalt Sky has recently worked on a weblog site for The Flory Team of The Woodlands, TX. The blog is called Experience The Woodlands and is located at http://www.ExperienceTheWoodlands.com. The blog focuses on Real Estate news and happenings from around the country, state, and The Woodlands, community and neighborhood news, and new neighborhood updates. The site includes links to many free services provided by The Flory Team, headed by one of The Woodlands’ top realtors- Michele Flory of Prudential Gary Greene Realtors in The Woodlands, TX.

The site itself also includes a contact form, a services page that lists a large number of different businesses in the area (from carpet and flooring to sheetrock and weekly yard maintenance), and even a gallery. The gallery has some beautiful aerial pictures that were provided by Eddie’s Airshots, as well as many pictures from around the area provided by The Flory Team. The gallery captures a lot of the beauty of the area and includes pictures of sculptures, water features, the town center, parks, and more.

The blog has the potential to expand for each neighborhood, as it has with Hazelcrest in The Woodlands. Other neighborhoods might include: Altwood, Cascade Canyon, Chandler Creek, Dove Trace, Heritage Hills, Hunters Crossing, Lansdowne, Legacy Point, Lenox Hill, Mirror Ridge, Peaceful Canyon, Shawnee Ridge, and Stellar Point. The neighborhood blog serves as an addition to the printed newsletter that each resident receives and offers the flexibility and convenience of being online. Editors and users can post news, events, etc. and comment on what has been posted. We hope this will help unite the neighborhoods and allow neighbors to get to know each other a bit better.

Katie Dixon took the reigns with the design and development of the project and is pleased with the attention the site has already begun receiving in the short time that it has been live. The bulk of the project was developing a 3-column fixed-width Wordpress template to use on each page, as well as pages that are not controlled by the blog software. The design is XHTML and CSS valid with some PHP additions to the CMS which is run by Wordpress. Another large portion of the project involved the customization of the gallery to transition easily from the main blog page, yet still have it’s own “look.” We went with Coppermine as the gallery software because of the customization, flexibility, and ease of use for both Admins and visitors.

Experience The Woodlands courtesy of The Flory Team and Cobalt Sky.


Post Category: Technology — By Katie Dixon on August 13, 2005 @ 1:23 pm

Why more women aren’t “geeks” | News.blog | CNET News.com

August 12, 2005 5:26 PM PDT
Why more women aren’t “geeks”

Where are all the women who forsake social outings to stay up all night writing computer code and read science fiction?

Most of those computer “geeks” (as the stereotype goes) live in countries that mandate math and science courses through the teenage years.

That’s one of the conclusions of a new study exploring the gender gap in computer science, a profession dominated by men. Professors of sociology at the University of California at San Diego and Western Washington released a study Friday that showed that women are vastly underrepresented in computer science in 21 nations–Germany, Czech Republic and Belgium being among the top countries with few women in tech.

That is because those as well as most countries are influenced by the notion that men and women are naturally suited to different occupations. But what’s different is that their schools do not require curriculum in math and science, and therefore encourage fulfilling those roles, according to the findings.

In South Korea, a nation with the highest number of women in computer science, math must be studied through 12th grade, and science through 11th. Ireland, Sweden, Turkey and the United States were also among nations with the highest penetration of women in technology.

Posted by Stefanie Olsen

Interesting read, though I can’t say that I agree with it much. I am without a doubt a geek (and a woman!), as are many of the gals that I chat with on a regular basis. I guess it’s a personal preference but I would much rather sit in front of the computer typing out xhtml and css code than looking for clothes or makeup at a mall.


Post Category: Web, Technology — By Andrew Harron on August 12, 2005 @ 11:02 am

Silence is Defeat Public Access Unix Systems

Its amazing what you get free these days. I remember back in the day when you used to have to sign your soul away to your ISP to get one of these. To many features to list all of them. ssh, sftp, pop3-ssl mail. Instant messaging clients for IRC, AIM, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo!, SoulSeek, and BitTorrent clients. Good way to start learning unix.


Post Category: Web, Design — By Katie Dixon on August 11, 2005 @ 3:02 am

50 Coolest Websites 2005 - TIME.com

How do we come up with our 50 best? Short answer: we take
your suggestions, probe friends and colleagues about their favorite online haunts and then surf like mad. This year’s finalists are a mix of
newcomers, new discoveries and veterans that have learned some new tricks