I went downtown tonight for the first joint Dorkbot DC meeting, and the first ever MAKE:DC meeting. It was held at the Koshland Science Museum, which I’d never been to before, but it was pretty easy to find — just around the block from the Gallery Place Metro stop. We were going to make a …
Four big announcements: – **1. [Time Capsule](http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/)** – 500 GB or 1 TB models – Essentially an AirPort Extreme with a hard drive inside- **2. iPhone & iPod Touch** – SDK will still be released in February – [1.1.3 today](http://www.apple.com/iphone/gettingstarted/guidedtourupdate2/large.html): – Maps with location, using Google’s Celltower system + Skyhooks wifi system – Webclips – …
Not sure when they added it (seems like just today), but [Tumblr](http://www.tumblr.com/) has just added Markdown support for posts. Huzzah! My [Rathole](http://rathole.tumblr.com/) tumblog is hosted by Tumbler, and this is just one more reason to love ’em. What’s a “tumblog,” you say? Check out the grandaddy of them all, [project.ioni.st](http://project.ioni.st).
This morning, my [AirPort Extreme Base Station with Gigabit Ethernet (802.11n)][apbs] started crapping out on me. At first, I thought it was just a one-time glitch, and I cycled the power. Within a few minutes, however, it was frozen again. [apbs]: http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=MB053LL/A
The post below is out of date. See the latest version here. In the words of its creator, John Gruber, “Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).” I’ve known about Markdown for …
I’ve known about Markdown for quite some time, but for some reason, I’ve always just stuck with writing up my posts in plain ol’ HTML. Since I’m trying out MarsEdit, and it has preview functionality for Markdown, I thought I’d give it a shot. I’m all for the human-readability of it, and if I can …
When I ordered a recent After Effects tutorials book, I was offered a Digital Upgrade from Amazon. I took the offer, not looking very closely, but later found that it doesn’t include any of the files that may be on any attached disc(s)— just the scanned pages. Just an FYI.
