Hey, something is different here....

So... You may notice something looks a little different here. I moved a couple things.

I moved the blog from me.com's servers, back to blogger's servers. I have my reasons, mainly, because I lost a lot of visibility into my reader's favorite links.

I also changed the theme. As much as I like the black background, it can be a bit difficult to read, and I might change it around a bit, as I really don't like this theme either, but we'll see. Now that I am back on blogger's platform, I have a lot of flexibility around the design of the site. Like, full html/css access to everything.

I brought only the best posts over from the other blogging platform (iWeb). Basically all the best ones that had the most comments and things. I didn't bring the comments over, if you want to comment on the posts, you may, and I'd encourage it.

Thanks to my loyal readers.

Please leave comments below.

Hey, something is different here....

So... You may notice something looks a little different here. I moved a couple things.

I moved the blog from me.com's servers, back to blogger's servers. I have my reasons, mainly, because I lost a lot of visibility into my reader's favorite links.

I also changed the theme. As much as I like the black background, it can be a bit difficult to read, and I might change it around a bit, as I really don't like this theme either, but we'll see. Now that I am back on blogger's platform, I have a lot of flexibility around the design of the site. Like, full html/css access to everything.

I brought only the best posts over from the other blogging platform (iWeb). Basically all the best ones that had the most comments and things. I didn't bring the comments over, if you want to comment on the posts, you may, and I'd encourage it.

Thanks to my loyal readers.

Please leave comments below.

iLife Support Update 8.2

Apple is cranking out the updates recently.  Wow!  This is probably the third or forth upgrade in the past week.  Go ahead Apple!

Apple describes this one as: "This update supports system software components shared by all iLife ’08 applications to improve their stability and performance. "

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iLife Support Update 8.2

Apple is cranking out the updates recently.  Wow!  This is probably the third or forth upgrade in the past week.  Go ahead Apple!

Apple describes this one as: "This update supports system software components shared by all iLife ’08 applications to improve their stability and performance. "

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QuickTime 7.4.1

From Apple's website:

"A heap buffer overflow exists in QuickTime's handling of HTTP responses when RTSP tunneling is enabled. By enticing a user to visit a maliciously crafted webpage, an attacker may cause an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved bounds checking."

It's about ~50 Mb.  I suggest you go ahead and update.  (This is in addition to the iLife and iWeb updates from this week.  Go ahead Apple, update away)

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QuickTime 7.4.1

From Apple's website:

"A heap buffer overflow exists in QuickTime's handling of HTTP responses when RTSP tunneling is enabled. By enticing a user to visit a maliciously crafted webpage, an attacker may cause an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved bounds checking."

It's about ~50 Mb.  I suggest you go ahead and update.  (This is in addition to the iLife and iWeb updates from this week.  Go ahead Apple, update away)

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Welcome back

iWeb is a great program, makes nice webpages, the problem is, it stores the entire website in one huge file called "Domain". So, I have taken the time to transition everything back to here.

Essentially, because iWeb keeps everything in that one file, I couldn't edit the webpage on multiple computers, nor could I edit it from the road. I used to keep the Domain file on my iDisk, so I could sync it between machines... Which was fine... except when it got to be like 250 Mb's. It was alot to sync. So, I decided to move everything back to my Linux server.

I'll probably lose some people in the transition between the iWeb domain, and bringing it back to my server, but hopefully they find me again.

Welcome back

iWeb is a great program, makes nice webpages, the problem is, it stores the entire website in one huge file called "Domain". So, I have taken the time to transition everything back to here.

Essentially, because iWeb keeps everything in that one file, I couldn't edit the webpage on multiple computers, nor could I edit it from the road. I used to keep the Domain file on my iDisk, so I could sync it between machines... Which was fine... except when it got to be like 250 Mb's. It was alot to sync. So, I decided to move everything back to my Linux server.

I'll probably lose some people in the transition between the iWeb domain, and bringing it back to my server, but hopefully they find me again.

iWeb fun

I haven’t put anything up in awhile because apparently, iWeb had a problem. Alot of people have attributed it to the fact that Apple has had a lot more users of .mac since they updated iLife, and the webdav syncing timing has been off, and therefore you have not been able to publish anything on iWeb in awhile.

Annoying.

Anyway. I talked to Apple about how to fix the problem, and they asked me to submit my Domain file, which, Apple’s upload interface only allows you to upload a max of 50 Mb.

This website is over 250 Mb’s. Good luck Apple!

Well, I just tried to republish and it worked, so we’ll see if it stays fixed.

iWeb fun

I haven’t put anything up in awhile because apparently, iWeb had a problem. Alot of people have attributed it to the fact that Apple has had a lot more users of .mac since they updated iLife, and the webdav syncing timing has been off, and therefore you have not been able to publish anything on iWeb in awhile.

Annoying.

Anyway. I talked to Apple about how to fix the problem, and they asked me to submit my Domain file, which, Apple’s upload interface only allows you to upload a max of 50 Mb.

This website is over 250 Mb’s. Good luck Apple!

Well, I just tried to republish and it worked, so we’ll see if it stays fixed.

Mobile Photos

I’ve had a iWeb Gallery for a bit now, but iWeb has been on the fritz a bit.

http://gallery.mac.com/joel.esler#100051

Mobile Photos

I’ve had a iWeb Gallery for a bit now, but iWeb has been on the fritz a bit.

http://gallery.mac.com/joel.esler#100051

New Apple fun

iMac’s, iLife 08, iWork 08, Airport Extreme, Mac Mini updates...

They almost updated everything in the product line. Nice.

So I picked up iLife and iWork 08’s, because I was at an Apple Store anyway because my battery on my powerbook died. (suckkin)

iLife looks nice, I like the new iWeb features. Almost all of the Icons are different, and they actually allow for “Web Widgets” now, which allows you to put actual html into the iWeb design, which is nice. iPhoto got a refresh as well, kinda looks like iTunes, really, and you can organize your pictures by ‘events’. Which are auto created based upon picture import batch, from what I can tell. Double clicking on a picture ‘zooms’ it in, kinda, App -opening - iPhone style. Very nice. The icon changed slightly for iPhoto as well I think. More refined. I haven’t messed with Garageband, (and don’t). iMovie won’t install on the powerbook. I don’t use it on here anyway.

iWork is nice as well, I especially like the Numbers program (the Mac replacement for Excel). The interface is a hella lot nicer. Pages and Keynote got a really nice refresher as well. Pages looks like an actual word processor now with the font bar (center, right, left, justification..etc.) actually in the interface, as opposed to in the ‘inspector’ bar like they should be. Keynote also got some actions on stuff like ‘actions’. The ability to move words within a slide, make them transparent and nice things like that. Alot of it is ‘have to see to understand’. But overall some very nice refinements that I have been looking for from the two suites for some time.

They didn’t have the new iMac’s out at the store when I was there yet, but I might have to go back there tomorrow and see it in person and give you a report on how it’s working. I am especially interested in how the keyboard is.

Airport extreme got Gigabit ports. nice.

Looks like the Mac mini got new processors too.

.Mac looks like it got an update as well with ‘Photo Galleries’. The iPhone also got a magic update timed to appear today apparently. See here for more details. Nice.
Maybe to eliminate my flickr account? We’ll see.

Also.. uh.. 10GB of storage? Um. That wasn’t there before! That’s alot more storage than before. The data transfer rates also went from 5Gb to 10Gb. (For the bottom accounts) Frickin sweet.

AHH!! I just noticed that .Mac will accept registrations from private domain names too. So you can point your CNAME ‘www’ at web.mac.com and then when people go to your web address it automagically goes to web.mac.com. Nice. Redirection.

Okay, so I just ran over and created a Web Gallery named ‘Moving’.

New Apple fun

iMac’s, iLife 08, iWork 08, Airport Extreme, Mac Mini updates...

They almost updated everything in the product line. Nice.

So I picked up iLife and iWork 08’s, because I was at an Apple Store anyway because my battery on my powerbook died. (suckkin)

iLife looks nice, I like the new iWeb features. Almost all of the Icons are different, and they actually allow for “Web Widgets” now, which allows you to put actual html into the iWeb design, which is nice. iPhoto got a refresh as well, kinda looks like iTunes, really, and you can organize your pictures by ‘events’. Which are auto created based upon picture import batch, from what I can tell. Double clicking on a picture ‘zooms’ it in, kinda, App -opening - iPhone style. Very nice. The icon changed slightly for iPhoto as well I think. More refined. I haven’t messed with Garageband, (and don’t). iMovie won’t install on the powerbook. I don’t use it on here anyway.

iWork is nice as well, I especially like the Numbers program (the Mac replacement for Excel). The interface is a hella lot nicer. Pages and Keynote got a really nice refresher as well. Pages looks like an actual word processor now with the font bar (center, right, left, justification..etc.) actually in the interface, as opposed to in the ‘inspector’ bar like they should be. Keynote also got some actions on stuff like ‘actions’. The ability to move words within a slide, make them transparent and nice things like that. Alot of it is ‘have to see to understand’. But overall some very nice refinements that I have been looking for from the two suites for some time.

They didn’t have the new iMac’s out at the store when I was there yet, but I might have to go back there tomorrow and see it in person and give you a report on how it’s working. I am especially interested in how the keyboard is.

Airport extreme got Gigabit ports. nice.

Looks like the Mac mini got new processors too.

.Mac looks like it got an update as well with ‘Photo Galleries’. The iPhone also got a magic update timed to appear today apparently. See here for more details. Nice.
Maybe to eliminate my flickr account? We’ll see.

Also.. uh.. 10GB of storage? Um. That wasn’t there before! That’s alot more storage than before. The data transfer rates also went from 5Gb to 10Gb. (For the bottom accounts) Frickin sweet.

AHH!! I just noticed that .Mac will accept registrations from private domain names too. So you can point your CNAME ‘www’ at web.mac.com and then when people go to your web address it automagically goes to web.mac.com. Nice. Redirection.

Okay, so I just ran over and created a Web Gallery named ‘Moving’.