hCard is a semantic web-friendly derivative of vCard (as used to import/ export from the Mac OS X Address Book). This post is a short "how to" describing a method for adding contact information to your blog posts in a cross-platform format that your readers can store without effort.
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Isobel asks about creating intra-document hyperlinks in a PDF exported from OmniGraffle Pro. Here's how I would do it.
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Attempts to duplicate the functionality of .Mac can be very technical (as here), or Google-centric (as here). In his recap of alternative options, Derek mentions a potential iDisk replacement called Box. Box offer unofficial WebDAV support; WebDAV is the same protocol used by .Mac that lets you publish your calendars and allow other folk to subscribe to them from within iCal. Unfortunately (mt), my web host, doesn't support WebDAV. I've already taken care of photocasting using iPhoto to bypass .Mac, although an easy way to share my calendar to my wife had eluded me until now.
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Veerle has posted a great Photoshop tutorial that visually walks you through the process of creating a 3D "page curl" effect—something I've wondered how to achieve for quite a time.
As previously noted, the currently available RSS module (1.0.6) is incompatible with the Siriux theme for Gallery (2.1.2). I wanted to be able to offer a feed (photocast) for an album in my own gallery, but finding a hack for the code was only half of the problem. For some reason defining a feed in Gallery is very non-intuitive. Here's how it's done, step-by-step.
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Rob over at Electrolund.com installed the Sage plugin for Firefox, featuring auto-discovery of all feeds associated with a given page. In so doing he discovered that bioneural.net offered a handful of feeds all called "bioneural.net". Not at all helpful! Were they duplicates? Were they different feed formats (flavours of RSS or Atom)? If they were unique, how could you tell them apart without studying the feed content? Valid questions I wanted to find answers for. I came up with a partial solution for more meaningful titles to help distinguish one feed from another.
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