Monday, January 03, 2005

macosxhints - Using PDF Services for OS X: update

macosxhints - Using PDF Services, revisited

macosxhints - Create a zip archive via OS X keyboard shortcut

macosxhints - Create a zip archive via a keyboard shortcut

Rather neat use of little known featurs of OS X.

macosxhints - How to work with MHTML files (IE Web Archive)

macosxhints - How to work with MHTML files

Microsoft's MHTML is a net standard -- RFC 2557. I wish Firefox & Safari supported it natively. Oddly enough GraphicConverter is suposed to add translation support for it.

Size matters -- but not megapixels

Digital Sensor Size
Since all three of these cameras are nominal '3MP' cameras, we can predict that results from the D30 will be better than those from the Coolpix 995, which will in turn be better than those from the Xi, assuming we use a lens of the same optical quality on each camera.

For the same megapixels and lens quality, a larger sensor gives a much better print. The author doesn't mention light sensitivity, but I believe the larger sensors (esp. CMOS) also capture more light.

That should be our plea to camera vendors. Keep your $#@ megapixels (6 is enough). Give us bigger sensors and better light sensitivity (ISO 800 equivalent with low noise).

Copernic Desktop Search - AOL's pending solution

Copernic Desktop Search - The Search Engine for Your PC

This has gotten some good reviews. It covers a lot of file types, and one can specify the location of the index files (you don't want to back these up, so they should be stored in a folder that's excluded from backup).

It does not index Eudora data - only Outlook. I can't tell if it supports indexing of a network drive, probably not.

Yahoo is partnering with X1. At the moment X1 and Copernic may be in the lead, with MSN next and Google lagging. Google has to get in gear.

I'll probably opt for X1/Yahoo eventually, but I'd like to see Google improve.

Gmail Notifier: change behavior of mailto link

Gmail Notifier

I'm not sure I want this notifier function, but I do need to override the behavior of the mailto link and I find it faster to email via Gmail than to fire up Eudora (a long story, I'm looking for a Eudora replacement). So I'll try it out ...

Wikipedia has a good Gmail entry

Gmail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I blogged on problems with Wikipedia in my "Notes" page. This is the opposite: something interesting. An entry on Gmail with quite a bit of interesting information.