Call to Mac attack: Safari support on Star Tribune news site

It's killing Safari! If you like that browser, help with ... Mac Attack the Minneapolis Star Tribune!

What Is a Wiki? Wiki 101

An O'Reilly article does a nice job laying out the Wiki world:
O'Reilly Network: What Is a Wiki (and How to Use One for Your Projects). I haven't figured out a use for a Wiki in my world, but I'll study the article and see what I can learn. ( I love Wikipedia, but I don't write for it.)

The VCamNow toy video camera works with OS X

I put an SD card (1GB, $30, ridiculous price drops in the past year) into my son's neglected VCamNow (sold via Target and Amazon). Then I put it in "play" mode and connected it to my iMac.

I was pleased to discover that the camera mounted and I could edit the jpg photos and AVI movies in iPhoto and iMovie. My son was delighted and the camera is now quite popular.

I noted my discovery in an Amazon review, then decided to ask Google if anyone else had noticed this. Not many it turned out, but one kindred spirit made the same discovery last December. Now there are two postings, so anyone who cares will find the answer to their worries.

My unsuspecting collaborator notes the bundled software (PC only) is quite horrid, but the software is not needed on XP anyway. There's no Mac software, so one must make do with iMovie and iPhoto :-). He notes the Mattel Vidster (not as good) also works with OS X.

Update 9/16/06: I think for this to work you have to first play a piece of one of the movies, and it may only work if you use the internal memory card to store data on. I think playing a part of one movie in the camera causes it to build a file system of some sort. Otherwise when you mount the camera the folder is empty. Also, here's info on the AVI format..

Update 10/15/06: iPhoto 6 will mount the VCamNow and import the videos.

Bloglines: claim a feed and give Freedback

Bloglines, my preferred RSS reader, is showing new vigor. They've added the ability for feed owners to manage how Bloglines manages the feed: Bloglines | Change Profile.

They've also added a way to provide feedback to them from a blog, which I'll use to tell them that the 'Change Profile' tool didn't recognize any of my Blogspot blogs -- and I read them all via Bloglines.

The trick for the feedbak is that I include the phrase bloglines freedbacking in this post. Their search engine looks for this and flags the post as feedback.

OS X context menu has slideshow option

I really need to read my darned context menus. There's an option to start a slideshow I'd never noticed.

Automator: a real use - automate scan/print

At last, a use for Automator!

ReelSmart.com: OS X Tip #94: Your Mac as a Color Copy Machine

I might conceivably use this one. I have a Brother MFC I like, but it's gray scale. I'd set this to use my ink jet instead.

Managing Google's search bot

.htacess to robots.tx to meta tags to nofollow to url removal. The many ways to keep content out of Google.