Archive for December, 2005

Vote for this site on silktide

Friday, December 30th, 2005

After reading about the silktide sitescore tool on Nitallica’s blog, I put this site to the test. It fares pretty well, getting the maximum score for accessibility and design, and scoring a respectable 8.5 out of 10 overall.

What brings the score down is my lack of visitor votes (hint, hint). If you would like to [...]

Open discussions removed

Monday, December 26th, 2005

For the few folks who frequent my forums, you may have noticed that the Open Discussions sections have been removed. Now all the forums require registration to be able to post comments.

This move has been forced on me by the continuous abuse of the forums by spammers, who post link laden comments in an attempt [...]

OughtoSave 1.0 is available for download

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

I have just created my first application for Mac OS X. It is a simple AppleScript application that creates a Growl notification every 15 minutes to remind you to save your progress while working.

Find out more about OughtoSave.

OughtoSave 1.0

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

For Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) only

By Richard Smith, http://www.drawingbusiness.com

Download

OughtoSave.dmg.zip (130Kb)

What is it for?

Do you ever get so absorbed into your work that you forget to save your progress, sometimes for hours at a time? Although most OS X applications are very stable, crashes do happen from time to time, and lost work can be [...]