I don't know if any of you are into Volkswagens - but I've been a huge Bug fan for many years now. I got my first VW Beetle in 1991 - a 1969. I rebuilt the engine (1835), repainted it (hot pink) and thoroughly enjoyed it. In college, I killed it by driving it from Salem, OR (remember the 1993 story) to Denver. So I bought a 1968, in very good condition, for $600 and swapped engines. I drove that for a couple years until I was cut off on the way to the airport on Christmas Eve 1997. It was snowing and slippery roads, so I found myself wrapped around a tree and the victim of a cut-off and run. Luckily, a undercover cop saw the whole thing and busted the guy. It was probably a good think I wrecked my old bug, 'cause I met Julie 3 weeks later, and she would've hated that thing! It was a POS with a nice engine, nice stereo and nice wheels. You know they kind of car I'm talking about - I didn't have any primer on it though. I waited a couple years before buying my next bug - a 2000 Turbo Beetle. It's been a great car, fast and fun and for sale. But that's not the reason for this post - just wanted to share some cool VW desktops I found from one of my favorite magazines - VWTrends.
It's amazing how much more fun it was to write this post than all the other ones today.
I found this while using the latest (1.0.2) version of NetNewsWire to surf my RSS subscriptions.
In a development that could help Adobe erode some of Macromedia's vector graphics lead, the Web's most influential standards group issued a draft designed to make its vector graphics standard work more easily on cell phones.
Facing an end-of-year publishing deadline, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week also released a flurry of proposals covering linking and querying Web pages and XML documents.
But the consortium reserved most of its enthusiasm for the vector graphics changes, which it hopes will help nudge the industry away from the accepted--and proprietary--standard, Macromedia's Flash technology.
"What we're seeing are some exciting developments on the SVG front," said W3C representative Janet Daly.
SVG, or (Scalable Vector Graphics), is the W3C's method for creating vector graphics, which are more flexible than the common bitmaps that form most of the graphics on the Web. In contrast to bitmaps, which are shipped fully rendered and defined pixel by pixel, vector graphics are composed of mathematical descriptions of curves and forms. This composition results in a more compact file, the ability to render the image to fit television or monitor screens with varying resolutions, and greater ease in animating the image. [W3C sees graphics on cell phones]
SVG is cool - it allows you to draw graphics using XML. It'll certainly make for lighter web pages and flash-type presentations using simply text. Watch this one, it'll be hot!
Later: I found this simple SVG Example and a whole slew of W3C Presentations.
You can now find this site at www.javawebapps.com. Hopefully, this is much easier to remember (and spell) than www.raibledesigns.com. Probably the best $35 I've ever spent and a fairly inexpensive marketing strategy. If you ever need to tell anyone about this site (don't know why you would), you can now use javawebapps.com. Let's see how many times I can type java web apps in this post. I've got to get past Anthony on Google's results 
- he's on page 2 right now (I'm on page 4).
Lance has added spell checking to Roller! Sweet - nice job Lance. The Roller Editor just keeps getting better and better. Wanna check it out? This site is running the latest CVS build as of 2:10 p.m. MST. The Test Weblog has the spell checker in it. Feel free to test away - and be sure to leave positive (and negative) feedback.
Did you know that just like " = " and ' = ' in HTML, there are equivalents for the left and right quotes as well:
- ’ = ’ (right single quote)
- ‘ = ‘ (left single quote)
- ” = ” (right double quote)
- “ = “ (left double quote)
Your browser should be able to render these properly, if not, please comment so we can figure out why. For a complete listing, check out this HTML Symbol Reference. My reason for posting this is I've been wondering how to do the left and right quote thing, and now I know!
I found some sweet links in the latest issue of Macworld magazine. If you're a Mac user, check 'em out!
I've mentioned them before, but I feel it's worth mentioning again: Outlook2Mac ($10) and Outport (free) are great for transferring your Outlook data to iCal and Address Book. I tried Outlook2Mac, but the trial only allows for export of a few contacts, so I use Outport - seems to work great for me. I still experience a problem with Address Book though - my Contact's mobile numbers show up as "Main" numbers. I believe this is an Address Book problem since they show up correctly in Entourage.
I don't know if any of you are into Volkswagens - but I've been a huge Bug fan for many years now. I got my first VW Beetle in 1991 - a 1969. I rebuilt the engine (1835), repainted it (hot pink) and thoroughly enjoyed it. In college, I killed it by driving it from Salem, OR (remember the 1993 story) to Denver. So I bought a 1968, in very good condition, for $600 and swapped engines. I drove that for a couple years until I was cut off on the way to the airport on Christmas Eve 1997. It was snowing and slippery roads, so I found myself wrapped around a tree and the victim of a cut-off and run. Luckily, a undercover cop saw the whole thing and busted the guy. It was probably a good think I wrecked my old bug, 'cause I met Julie 3 weeks later, and she would've hated that thing! It was a POS with a nice engine, nice stereo and nice wheels. You know they kind of car I'm talking about - I didn't have any primer on it though. I waited a couple years before buying my next bug - a 2000 Turbo Beetle. It's been a great car, fast and fun and for sale. But that's not the reason for this post - just wanted to share some cool VW desktops I found from one of my favorite magazines - VWTrends.
- he's on page 2 right now (I'm on page 4).
