Archive for July, 2007

Last night, I released version 0.9.2 of Stuffr.

Stuffr, a desktop blogging client for Windows, has a streamlined design that works in conjuction with multiple weblog platforms.

With customizable toolbars, syntax highlighting, and smart prompts, Stuffr offers you all of the tools needed for speedy and convenient posting.

Version 0.9.2 includes the following changes:

• Add: Strike Text (Ctrl+G).
• Add: Bulleted list (Alt+B).
• Add: Ordered list (Alt+O).
• Add: Add List Item (Alt+I).
• Add: –more– (Alt+X).
• Add: Small Caps Style (Alt+F).
• Add lowercase (Alt+F2).
• Add UPPERCASE (Alt+F3).
• Add: Line Break (Alt+G).
• Add: Horizontal Rule (Alt+R).
• Add: New button for inserting images, see change mentioned below (alt+M).
• Add: Visit Website (Alt+W) loads your blog in the browser.
• Add: Visit Admin Page (Alt+D) loads your blog admin page in the browser.
• Add: Keyboard Shortcut List (Alt+K).
• Fix: Uploading a file (non-image) was not closing the anchor link tag correctly.
• Fix: The Word Count feature no longer counts items within HTML tags.
• Change: Images and files can now be uploaded to two different places. (image folder or file folder).
• Change: Redesigned GUI buttons to make them more configurable

If you have a WordPress blog, a Movable Type blog, or you use Tumblr, check out Stuffr today.

I got a computer generated letter today, telling me that my GMC Envoy was paid-off, and thanking for doing business with GMAC. The letter told me what a great customer I have been, and told me if I ever needed another car, or if I was thinking of purchasing real estate to give them a holler.

I don’t know about you, but after working with computers day in and day out, I would like to have a human contact me and tell me they appreciate my business. Then again, if a human called, the price of my truck would go up $10,000.

I just don’t get it.

At least half a dozen highly anticipated broadcast network fall pilots have been leaked online.

Copies of NBC’s “Bionic Woman,” ABC’s “Pushing Daisies,” The CW’s “Reaper” and several other shows were available Friday for illegal download on sites such as Torrent Spy, The Pirate Bay and Mininova.

Is downloading a new television show weeks before its premiere really that important? Oh sure, I can see why people might want to see them, but come on.

Sometimes I think the studios release these shows into the wild so they can gauge public reaction before the all so important Nielsens start popping.

Earlier today my wife discovered talkr.com.

Talkr.com is a free service which takes your text based blog and creates an audio podcast feed so visitors can listen to your posts rather than read them.

Each post on this site will have a link to listen to the post, and I will be adding a subscribe button in the sidebar as I get time.

For now, you can subscribe to the audio feed with this link (subscribe)

Pretty cool stuff if you ask me.

There is a rumor that Vista SP1 won’t be out until 2009.

Christopher Null, the Working Guy says it’s easy to believe this rumor, and I agree.

Microsoft drops the ball each and every time they release an operating system. Whether it’s bugs from the get-go or the lack of true support, in the form of updates or service packs, it seems the right hand never knows what the left hand is up too.

Will the service pack be releases in days? Weeks? A year? Who knows… I’ll tell you one thing though, they’ll have to give me oxygen and hook up a pulse oximeter if they actually release something that works anytime soon.

Quite a while back, I had a friend that need an application to keep track of golf cart parts. He worked at a repair shop and needed something quick and easy that would assist him in keeping track of all of the parts he had in inventory.

With a little elbow grease, a little know-how, and a good dose of Delphi, I had his new application done in no time. I love working with Delphi. He so owes me though, because, I never got a round of golf out of the deal.

The Mozilla Foundation is thinking about creating a separate organization to take control of its Thunderbird e-mail application, allowing it to concentrate on development of the Firefox Web browser.

In a blog posting Wednesday, Mitchell Baker, CEO of Mozilla, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, called for a new structure to allow “the Thunderbird community to determine its own destiny” and asked the open-source community for input.

Baker said Mozilla’s Thunderbird effort “is dwarfed” by the energy it spends on the Firebox browser and the ecosystem around it.

“Mozilla doesn’t focus on Thunderbird as much as we do … on Firefox and we don’t expect this to change in the foreseeable future,” she wrote. A separate organization focused on the maintenance and further development of the e-mail client, she added, would be able to move independently and thus deepen the user community.

Wow. It makes sense though. If development of Thunderbird is suffering because of the focus on Firefox, it only makes sense to separate from Mozilla and let it fly.

As a Thunderbird user I think it’s a good idea.

My wife has been thinking about that vacation I wanted to take. Because of issues with my GMC Envoy, I now own a GMC Sierra 4-door Crew Cab and we’re all itching to go somewhere. She mentioned North Carolina and the Outer Banks, so I did some checking tonight, and actually found myself looking at Wilmington NC real estate. I thought it would be a bit more expensive than it turned out to be. Of course, my wife reminded me we are going for vacation, not to move. Darn!

Guess I better get back to work.

Sorry for the lack of posts for the past couple days, but we had a harrowing experience over the weekend, which could have ended up horrible, but instead ended up with us owning a brand new truck.

We spent most of the weekend driving all over the place. We even contemplated driving up to Tennessee, North Carolina, or even farther north to find a New York Bed and Breakfast. We were looking for any reason to drive the truck.

But, we are now settled back in, and the weekly routine starts all over again.

Last week, I mentioned that I have been counting calories online, and that I have lost 40 pounds since November of last year. A reader from my main blog, Slobokan’s Site O’ Schtuff, made it a point to tell me that I should have tried the hoodia patch instead. She says that I would have lost the weight faster, and I wouldn’t have had to go through all that trouble counting calories for so long.

Thanks for the tip Elaine. If I need help in the future, I will make sure to try that.