Thomas Upton

Monthly Archives: July 2005

Konfabulator

July 31, 2005 at 15.17

This past Monday, Yahoo announced the purchase of desktop widget application Konfabulator. With the purchase came the announcement that Konfabulator would be free, and anyone who bought version 2.0 or later would be eligible for a refund of the application’s former $20 charge. I like Konfabulator almost better than Dashboard. Dashboard seems to have more … (Continue reading →)

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Windows Royale Theme

July 31, 2005 at 10.28

One of the first things I do when sitting down at a Windows machine is to switch the appearance to Windows Classic. The default theme is too unimaginative, and looks like a candy shop. I do use Windows, especially at school where they use Visual Studio to code. I like Windows and I know my … (Continue reading →)

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Google’s Improved Home Page

July 26, 2005 at 17.11

I posted earlier about Google’s customizable home page, and how Slashdot aggregation went awry. That was fixed shortly after I posted, and I have been using the Google page as my home page ever since. Last night, Google made some improvements to their page in the form of some nifty Javascript resizing and a new … (Continue reading →)

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Firefox Wishlist

July 21, 2005 at 18.28

The Firefox web browser had a version realignment today, ultimately resulting in the release of Firefox 1.5 in August / September, with work on FF2.0 and FF3.0 after that. There will be no Firefox 1.1 release. With all this versioning adjustment, I got to thinking about the things I wish that I could see from … (Continue reading →)

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Backpack

July 21, 2005 at 16.16

I am nitpicky, anal, tidy, obsessive, and compulsive about my songs and their ID3 tags. I have over 7000 songs in my iTunes library; navigating an iPod without the correct tags would be nearly impossible. On a relatively unrelated note, I’ve been using Backpack for a while now, just to keep track of miscellaneous little … (Continue reading →)

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