Being a Mac user, I’m spoiled with Safari and Firefox, and happily assume that the rest of the world has it so good. A kind reader wrote in to let me know that the sidebar isn’t showing up on Internet Explorer 6 or 7 for Windows. This means readers stuck with IE (at work, for […]
Geek Alert
Redesign, part one
Readers who visit the web site, as opposed to getting it through the feeds, will notice a few changes, both cosmetic and architectural. We’ll start with the obvious stuff. The blue header is a little bluer, the footer is fatter, and there are fewer entries per page. There’s now an archive listing on every page […]
Something weird with the RSS feed
If you’re reading this site through the feeds, an FYI: the plain-old RSS feed (the 0.92 version) isn’t working right for some reason. You’d be better off with the 2.0 version or the Atom feed, both of which seem to work fine.
Shake for less
I recently learned Final Cut Pro, Apple’s editing system, which is complicated but incredibly intuitive. That got me anxious to experiment with the other pro film tools. The full Final Cut Pro Studio package is fairly inexpensive, especially with an educational discount. Unfortunately, Apple’s Shake 4 compositing software costs $2700 or more, which would tend […]