Today’s your last chance to cash in on the 25% off promotion for Bradsoft’s Topstyle Pro, hands down the the best text/html/php/css editor in existence.
Joystiq.com has some impressions from a recent hands-on with two of Lucas Arts latest games: Star Wars Battlefront and Mercenaries. The title of this post came form that article.
It was funny so I thought I’d link to the article.
The RSS feed for Internet Archive’s Movie Archive has been going nuts over the last two days, with something like over 100 new movies added. Great news for old movie lovers. I personally recommend the original Night of the Living Dead (it wasn’t part of the latest blitz of additions, for the record).
So I’ve been using Mozilla.org’s Thunderbird for quite some time now (since 0.2 I believe)… And I really want to like it. With thunderbird currently envisioning a mid-October 1.0 release, I still find my self constantly frustrated by thunderbird’s performance.
My primary gripe is with thunderbird’s IMAP support. Due to constantly coming across bug #224795 I forced to keeping my email client closed except when explicitly checking or sending messages.
Other little quirks keep appearing when changing folders or moving email around different folders (again always IMAP accounts, since I don’t use POP3 anywhere anymore). Thunderbird likes to crap out and no longer show the contents of folders, etc, etc. I’ve yet to bother searching for any corresponding bug entries in bugzilla because I find using bugzilla to be tedious and unmanageable.
So I continually find myself being tempted to switch back to Outlook. Of course, I just can’t bring myself to do it. As much as the quirks and bugs of thunderbird annoy me, I think it’s much better than the constantly discovered and exploited vulnerabilities of MS’s internet applications.
And one more another thing…
Why the hell does update.mozilla.org not have a search function?
Ok… I’m done my little rant.
While I expect thunderbird to mature someday to something quite solid… I don’t really feel like it’s progress from creation to 1.0 has been as strong as say another mozilla project. Perhaps thunderbird is being prematurely pulled towards 1.0 in order to coincide with it’s big brother’s big 1.0.
So Robert Scoble has posted his 8 steps to getting your blog noticed. If you’re looking to get famous in the “blogosphere” (*shudder* god I hate that term) then these steps seem to be fairly sound advice. Of course, being the lazy guy I am, I plan on doing none of them.
Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger
(oh crap… I think I just did #1)
Ok, so given that I’m taking six 3rd & 4th year physics and math classes this semester, I’m a little interested in finding a way to properly track all the assignments and due dates that have been thrown upon me.
I spent 20 minutes or so entering-in all the dates I’ve received so far into my yahoo calendar but was a little disappointed by the fact that the assignments I’ve entered as ‘tasks’ with due dates do not show up in the calendar view. Seems to me this would be a logical thing to do. So I thought I would sync the calendar with Outlook and see how outlook handled it’s calendar/task views. Unfortunately Outlook (2003) doesn’t seem to display tasks in the calendar view either. Am I the only one who would like this? A quick google search seemed to show several people asking how they could show tasks in the calendar view, but the response was usually ‘can’t be done’.
So anyhow… Anyone got and recommendations for any good time management software? Perhaps something geared specifically for students?
FriendFeed