http://alanhogan.com/ Alan Hogan's website - Web development, Mac user tips, etc. Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:09:46 -0400 15 en-US Copyright 2008, AlanHogan.com http://pan.alanhogan.com/ribbon/images/ribbonlogo2.gif http://alanhogan.com/ I'm moved by this incredible remix of Radiohead's "Nude" (from In Rainbows), which uses old computer peripherals as instrumentation and voice for the song. Watch the video, read the remixer's rationale and discover what makes this so emotional. http://alanhogan.com/big-ideas-dont-get-any http://alanhogan.com/big-ideas-dont-get-any http://alanhogan.com/big-ideas-dont-get-any radiohead music remix video computer peripherals reuse green environment philosophy creative work analysis Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:13:20 -0400 Dvorak keyboard layout: What is is, how to switch, and more. Essentially the Dvorak keyboard looks just like the keyboard you're sitting in front of right now, but the letters and some symbols are rearranged so that the most commonly used keys are already under your fingers (on "home row") or close by. By minimizing the distance your fingers are traveling, you can type faster and healthier. http://alanhogan.com/dvorak http://alanhogan.com/dvorak health keyboards dvorak protips Wed, 21 May 2008 04:51:07 -0400 I'm very hopeful for strong standards support in Internet Explorer 8 after Microsoft reverses their position on X-UA-Compatible. You can sleep better tonight, Internet. http://alanhogan.com/x-ua-compatible-rejoicing http://alanhogan.com/x-ua-compatible-rejoicing webdev microsoft ie ie8 standards Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:39:34 -0500 A comparison of Shrook, NewsFire, and NetNewsWire (all of which are now free) and which features I'd like to see in an ideal client. (Spoiler: NetNewsWire comes out on top.) http://alanhogan.com/ideal-mac-feed-reader http://alanhogan.com/ideal-mac-feed-reader RSS Shrook NewsFire NetNewsWire NewsGator Mac Apple OS X aggregator OPML Growl Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:57:46 -0500 Comments (yours and mine!) on Scott Adam's book "God's Debris" http://alanhogan.com/book/gods-debris http://alanhogan.com/book/gods-debris misc Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:28:00 -0500 Ben Charny, tech journalist, earns a round of criticism from Daring Fireball, Joel on Software, and others for horrendous reporting. http://alanhogan.com/ben-charny http://alanhogan.com/ben-charny journalism tech mac apple microsoft wall street journal Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:37:55 -0500 Opera Software is miffed at Mozilla because they discovered a problem affecting their own Firefox software as well as Opera's, fixed the hole, told Opera, and then announced the hole to the public one day later. This is a big deal because it's industry-standard behavior to give software manufacturers anywhere from months to over a year to fix a security problem in their software after you warn them about it. A day is unheard-of. Only after a long time or after they've fixed it does it become ethical to tell the public. Why? Because announcing a problem before the vendor fixed it puts *users* at risk. Now I'm upset with Mozilla for leaving me out in the cold. http://alanhogan.com/mozilla-leaves-opera-users-to-the-wolves http://alanhogan.com/mozilla-leaves-opera-users-to-the-wolves opera mozilla firefox browsers security Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:17:31 -0500 Should PHP be renamed? It's more general than a hypertext preprocessor or a personal home page. http://alanhogan.com/conversations/php/acronym http://alanhogan.com/conversations/php/acronym PHP web development programming conversations Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:08:46 -0500 Apple's "Scrolling TrackPads," found in the MacBook and MacBook Pro, are flawless. Some who have used HP or Dell touchpads may find this hard to believe. Here I respond to common questions and discuss what I love about Apple's touchpads. http://alanhogan.com/tips/apple-macbook-pro-trackpads-vs-pc-touchpads http://alanhogan.com/tips/apple-macbook-pro-trackpads-vs-pc-touchpads mice tip macbook pro osx notebooks apple mac laptops Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:28:02 -0500 YouTube ads have become annoying http://alanhogan.com/conversations/new-youtube-ads-in-player http://alanhogan.com/conversations/new-youtube-ads-in-player conversation advertising youtube Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:47:54 -0500