Feb
27
Taco HTML
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With the demise of BBEdit Lite, I’m looking for other free or under $20.00 basic HTML editors I can use with students. Taco HTML, from Taco Software is a free OS X HTML Editor. It has syntax coloring, an attractive, fairly self explanatory interface (a good thing, since there’s no built in Help). The basic [...]
Feb
26
There's Enough Idiocy in the World . . .
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Without adding to it with statements like this, from Dave Weiner:
I’m not pro-war, but all the estimates of what it would cost to win the war I’ve heard are missing one thing. We can pay for reconstructing Iraq by pumping oil. We can also pay ourselves back for the cost of the war.
This is astonishingly [...]
Feb
25
The Demise of BBEdit Lite
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Bare Bones software, makers of excellent Mac software, have retired the free BBedit Lite text editor. I initially learned to create HTML files using BBedit Lite, which was a truly “bare bones” text editor, with no HTML tools per se but excellent tools for working with ASCII files. I’ve long since upgraded to BBEdit, now [...]
Feb
17
Radio Userland New Blog Backup Tool
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Read step by step instructions here. I’m about to go try it out myself.
Later: worked like a charm, and took roughly a half hour. There’s an ongoing progress report, which is a useful feature. I, as a backup fanatic, immediately compressed the “Backup” directory that was created in the Radio directory, and added it to [...]
Feb
16
Google Buys Blogger
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Well, at least it’s not AOL. Yes, it’s true, Google bought Pyra labs, makers of Blogger. Dan Gillmore got the scoop.
This might be OK; it sounds like Ev is still going to be around, and Google has been quite reasonable about the UseNet archive DejaNews, now known as Google Groups. They’ve enhanced the search [...]