February 2006
4 posts
Selling My PowerMac G5
I am selling my first generation PowerMac G5 single-processor. It has 2GB of memory, an 80GB hard drive, and comes with a 17” old-school mac flat-panel. Please, someone in Chicago, want to buy this for cheap. (let’s say $1300).
Respond on the Edgio service please in the “Contact this publisher” form.
(Also, I’m listing this one Edgeio to try out the service.)
» Posted a photo of it here (I...
Quicktime Embed Plugin for Textpattern
I just finished my first plugin for textpattern. There was one last bug to iron out and I think I got it.
I need to write the “help” section still. Also, many thanks to bas_ for his multimedia plugins. You can try it and see it in action.
» Don’t use the files number in the custom video field you create. You can use it, it’s just that QT waits to play the movie (no matter what your autoplay...
Flash Player on OS X Intel
The intel Macs (iMac, MacBook Pro) ship with a custom compiled version of the Flash Player plugin. If you go to “upgrade” flash from Macromedia’s site, your Flash plugin will no longer work.
There are two solutions:
Go to the application, control+click on the application, select “Get Info” and check the box that says “Run using Rosetta”. This box is only available for apps compiled as...
An Accessible Shot Across the Bow
An article in the SFGate about a new Accessibility Suit details a suit brought against the mega-retailer Target by a blind UC Berkley student regarding the complete inaccessibility of their website.
But Target’s Web site, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court, does not support such software, making the site useless to the blind—a violation of the Americans...