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I was modifying the styles for this web site recently, and after testing the change locally I uploaded the style sheet to the production server. Afterwards I cast an eye on the site to check everything was updated, and was horrified to see the styling had completely disappeared:  Where's my CSS styling, dude?
Recipe Search on Google I just noticed – Google has added a recipe search item to their home page. You can filter the results by ingredients, cooking time or by calories. To get included in the results, sites need to tag their recipes using rich snippets. Rich snippets can also be . . . → Read More: Rich Snippets – Google recipe search
Microsoft: Encourage Internet Explorer 6 users to upgrade Aggressive “dissing” of your own product. Microsoft has set a goal of getting the proportion of Internet Explorer 6 users reduced to 1% and is actively advising people to stop using it. Currently, around 12% of internet users, mostly in Asia, are still using . . . → Read More: Microsoft: Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer 6 When our house in Xàtiva is finished, Ruth intends to carry on working for a time in Frankfurt. Which means we will be living partly in Germany and partly in Spain for a quite a time to come. Indeed, we expect to keep a foot in Germany for the foreseeable future. What I want to do is to ensure that our data – scanned documents, music, photos, spreadsheets, text documents etc. are equally available and up to date in both locations. Ruth will be using a Mac in Frankfurt, and in the house in Spain we plan to install most of the remaining computer equipment that we have here. Today all our data resides on a Synology DiskStation DS210+ and can accessed from any of the Macs in the household. We don’t store data on the individual Mac local hard drives. What I would like to do while we have two households is to be able to replicate data between two data servers – probably installing a DiskStation at each location and synchronising them regularly. Let’s say the main storage location is in Spain. My idea is to access the Frankfurt data server from Spain using WebDAV, mount the Frankfurt server as disk drive on my Mac’s desktop in the house in Spain and use a program such as Synchronize!Pro or Goodsync regularly to keep the contents of both servers identical. I think there is little chance of Ruth and I happening to edit the same file independently of each other between sync’s, so I expect the main sync activity to be adding or deleting files on two data stores. I decided to set up WebDAV access via the internet for the existing DiskStation we have in Frankfurt and check whether the idea is feasible. To do this, I needed to set up an account with a dynamic DNS (or “DynDNS”) provider so that I can always access our systems in Frankfurt (Our ISP assigns us a dynamic IP address which changes every 24 hours). I needed to set up our FRITZ!Box 7270 to route traffic securely from the DynDNS provider to our DiskStation. Here’s what I did: The Camera Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab has come up with a way of marking objects with a 3mm wide bar code that a normal digital SLR camera can read at a distance of over 4 meters (a cell phone camera needs to be closer) : Comparision of the new bokode . . . → Read More: Nifty way of miniaturizing bar codes If you don’t like being tracked (i.e. having advertisers being informed about which sites you have visited) when you are visiting websites, you can block some 20 or so ad-serving companies doing this (including some big ones, like Google, Yahoo and Akamai). You will still see on-line ads but at least you won’t get . . . → Read More: How to opt out of on-line advertising There have been a number of reports in the last days of iTunes app developers apparently accessing other iTunes users’ accounts to buy their applications, to increase their rating on iTunes. People have had bills of $100 or more generated for apps and books that they didn’t order. It is not clear at . . . → Read More: Online security Using a Snow Leopard Server, (OS X 10.6.x) it seems that administrators have a problem if they have used Apple’s Managed Client for OS X (MCX) to provide software updates to their clients from their local server and then want to switch back to having the clients get the updates from Apple’s servers. The problem seems to lie with Apple’s Managed Preferences, which is part of MCX. Here is what I understand happens, and a solution: Continue reading Resetting Software Update to use Apple’s servers Using the waze desktop maps There is a new social mobile application on the block – waze.com. You can download the application onto your smartphone (Apple, Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian at the moment, Blackberry is coming shortly) and use the free software as an on-board turn-by-turn navigation system. The maps are . . . → Read More: Help fill in the blanks on waze.com I can’t see the point in some of the more modern internet trends – I tried FaceBook and gave up after a couple of weeks, and have never felt the slightest urge to share my life using Twitter. However I know quite a few people who do use Twitter. They may want to consider . . . → Read More: Careful what you tweet… |
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