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Apr 27 2009

Server Encore

You provided me with some positive feedback and suggestions on last week’s server software feature, so this week we’re going to go another round.

Qwiki Wiki

Wiki brought simple, easy collaboration to the web. While most Wiki software is free, not all is easy to install. I’ve grabbed Qwiki Wiki for its ease of installation and use. Upload your files and edit one config file and you are on your wiki way.

SimpleForum

Continuing our theme of simplicity comes a find by our own MacManX. SimpleForum is a great, easy to install alternative to server-space hogging, hard to install forum systems.

MT Plugin Directory

Movable Type is the mainstay of power-bloggers. Don’t settle for the out of the box installation. One of the best features of Movable Type is customization and one of the best resources to customize MT is the MT Plugin Directory.

Jeff Schuler’s RSS Templates

Here’s another MT resource. Jeff has posted a collection of templates that will take your Movable Type RSS feeds to the next level.

That’s it for part 2. I expect to see some rocking sites. Join me again next week when we get back to Mac software.

Brian

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Sep 16 2008

Savant Systems builds home automation on Mac OS X, iPhone app coming

mobile ipod 350 1 20080916 190019 Savant Systems builds home automation on Mac OS X, iPhone app comingCali Lewis of GeekBrief.TV recorded an audio conversation with Jim Carroll, the founder of Savant about their home automation systems built on Apple hardware. They have a unique iPhone/iPod Touch application coming out soon that will allow you to control all the automated appliances and systems in your home and, potentially monitor and control them via text messages while you’re away.

Savant’s systems are not designed for the do-it-yourselfer in the way X10 automation systems are. Instead, they offer a solution that emphasizes ease of use, reliability and a maintenance-friendly open platform. It’s a complete system.

It’s nice to know that, not only is someone working to redefine the home entertainment and control systems industries, but that they’re doing it on the foundation of Mac OS X.

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Aug 18 2008

TOM BIHN announces the Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase. Gets you through checkpoints with ease.

bihncheckpoint300dpi 20080818 195433 TOM BIHN announces the Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase. Gets you through checkpoints with ease.My favorite laptop bag designer, TOM BIHN, has introduced the Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase, a new briefcase-style laptop bag designed to be “checkpoint friendly” and with a highly protective compartment for your laptop.

More than just made to fit in an airplane’s overhead compartment, The Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase is the result of an intensive, five-month design challenge issued by the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) to design a laptop bag that meets its newly implemented “checkpoint friendly” program guidelines. The new case provides the TSA with a clear, unobstructed x-ray view of the laptop in the bag without sacrificing organizational pockets and clean design.

A molded foam laptop compartment within the Checkpoint Flyer completely encases a laptop in 8mm-thick closed cell foam, available in three sizes designed specifically to fit the 13″ MacBook and MacBook Air, 15.4″ MacBook Pro, and 17″ MacBook Pro.

The Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase is available for pre-order through the TOM BIHN web site and ships by late September. It sells for USD$220 and is available in three colors.

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