Found in a recent link from Slashdot to an entry of Phil Ryu’s blog about the top ten most beautiful Mac OS X apps – coverflow puts to a good use these neglected cover art pictures in your iTunes library and turns them into a fluid, intuitive interface to select albums you want to listen to. Now if only Apple…
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MT 3.2 / Gallery 2.0 Integration
The migration to Gallery 2.0 is now complete. I spent some time over the last couple of days to find ways to integrate Movable Type and Gallery. In both cases, lack of time to delve into APIs forced me to take some shortcuts. These examples rely on the use of Cold Fusion as a scripting language. They could probably be…
Movable Type 3.2 upgrade
The switch of this site to the new 3.2 version of Movable Type took a little longer than expected but it was well worth the wait ! After using it for a couple of days, I keep finding little changes here and there, interface improvements, better icons… overall, the new Administration is clean and streamlined. More importantly, it makes sense.…
Smarter Playlists
So I have spent some time recently making sense of my little collection of songs. 4214 songs. 11.3 days. All paid and accounted for 🙂 … and always listening to the same 2 or 3 static playlists. Something had to change. I picked up some great advices from Smart Playlists.com and came up with the following tips to help organize…
iCleaner revived my iPod
I made the mistake to keep my iPod for a few weeks in a jacket, with keys and coins… and no protection… while I was waiting to receive a Vajacases leather case. Needless to say, the scratches that ensued were as nagging as grain of sand under an eyelid. It took me a while to find a good solution. Unfortunately,…
Eyecandy for Windows XP
While I was away at a conference a few weeks ago, I found myself surrounded by researchers and students all typing away on their cool Mac laptops. Seeing the eyecandy of Mac OS-X, I wished I could find the same vidual comfort on my windows XP desktop. A few weeks later, I found the right combination of desktop gadgets to…
Licensing changes for MT
In answer to the initial criticisms about their new licenses, Six Apart has announced the following changes : There are now no limits on the number of weblogs you can create with a paid license of Movable Type. The free license remains limited. All paid options include support directly from us, through our online ticket system. Our licenses are perpetual,…
MT @ Linfa.net
This is my contribution to the informal survey started by Six Apart about the ways people are using Movable Type in the real world. It is rare enough to see a company listen to its users so quickly and be wiling to make changes where other companies would just have ignored the outcry and told everyone to just live with…
Moving (Six) Apart
Like many others, I was looking forward with excitement to see what the new version of Movable Type had to offer. Since the announcement was made a few days ago of a new version, Movable Type 3.0, and a new licensing scheme, �disappointment� and �confusion� are more applicable to the situation. In the middle of the outcry (amplified by a…
iTunes time travels
With all that hype surrounding it, it is easy to overlook a very simple reason that makes a service like iTunes so attractive. iTunes is a Time Machine. I spent a few hours (and dollars) going over their catalog, looking for particular albums and as I was coming across some unexpected titles, it hit me – there are so many…