Adobe’s Image Optimization Page. Free, and reasonably good for the price. Wish their CreatePDF was available free for casual users too.
Monthly Archives: April 2002
File Streaming over SMTP
I’ve been thinking about streaming files by SMTP for some time. There are too many firewalls around which don’t allow file transfers, and email is a good way of getting your data across simply because the (hopefully willing) recipient has hardly got to do anything to receive the data. (Of course, people who’ve used Radio upstreaming will scream old hat! here, but not everyone uses Radio (yet! 
) So SMTP.
It could work like this: You would be able to drop a file onto a container on your system tray, and after typing the recipient’s name, sit back as the program would split the file and deliver it piece by piece. I wrote up a quick Perl script to show how this might work, it’s a command-line tool but shows the flavor of how things could be.
Radio UI
The Radio Userland Aggregator page would sure improve if it had either frames or a hierarchial display of stories.
Radio too heavy
About the only reason I feel apprehensive about Radio is that it’s too heavy. I develop for a living. My machines are pretty beefy, but I need most of them to be running at top capacity, with no spare cycles going anywhere. In fact, one of the reasons I like MovableType is that it plugs in nicely into an Apache box, not consuming any resources until I’m actually using it. Sigh — one can’t have everything, can one? 
Radio’s Outliner
I am using Radio 7.1′s outliner to document a project I’m working on, and I have only one thing to say: it rocks!
Actually, I have used Word’s outliner before, and it’s very good too, but Word fences you in. There’s no way to export your outline to an HTML page, for example. Anyway, I’m gonna keep my Radio 7.1 installer close to me from now on, I can tell you that. (Maybe even buy 8!)
Vector Computing in Japan
As vector computing falls out of favor in the US (thanks to budget cuts and the growing availability of lower-cost clusters), Japan ups the ante.
0xCAFEBABE
Alternative explanations for the 0xCAFEBABE magic sequence in all Java .class files.
Mosquitoes prefer Blondes
(Via blogblogbaby) Dunno about gentlemen, but mosquitoes prefer blondes.
Google Answers
From the quirky Google services department: Google Answers.
Glasses
Salon: Sexy specs. ‘Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses.’? Well, not this one