chartoo presents...

Anyone for SSCrabble?

For all you SSrabble fans here's a great web page application written using XML, CSS and Javascript.

Now you can have a friendly game of SSCrabble online.

Posted by Firda Beka on her site Weblog Wannabe

Thanks to The Man in Blue!

You can download SSCrabble here

Barlows Friendz

John Berry Barlows new web log, Barlow Friendz, offers an insiders view of the inner workings of one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Barlow also attempts to answer the question of , his friend , Spaulding Gray's disappearance.

Mozilla Firebird click to flash

I love Mozilla and I've been using it daily for the last year or more.

Recently my friend, Chris, brought to my attention that the latest version of Firebird with AdBlock, which is excellent, has a new extension called,"click to enable Flash".
When Firebird loads a page with a Flash app embedded, the page shows "click to Flash" text to activate the flash object.

I'd long since stopped surfing with Internet Explorer because of all the distracting and garrish ads on web pages.
In fact until last week I didn't have Flash installed in Mozilla so I didn't have to be bothered by the Flash ads.

Now with the click to enable Flash extension in Firebird I've installed soundblox and blogbox on my blog page.

And if you decide to use either of these cool widgets I highly recommend using Architag's Xray XML editor to modify the XML files needed to drive these apps.

Additional Mozilla Firebird extensions.

Life's short, remember to have some fun!

blogbox

Along the left edge you see the soundblox and directly under is
the Laszlo blogblox.
A flash driven blogroll, if you will.
Configuring an XML/OPML file with your favorite topics and links
will embed this handy and compact web page object in your home page.
You can get your blogbox here.

Microcasting

Warren Ellis puts forth the idea that the current decline in the music industry as well as the movie industry is a change in the way the public looks for media.
With the internet the audience can get custom content dictated
by personal taste delivered straight to your desktop.

Microcasting

webOutliner demo

webOutliner
Collect, edit and post news links to your blog from this online news/rss agreggator.

Created by broadband mechanic Marc A. Canter

Champagne corks

Have a few to many champagne corks hanging around?
Or have you ever thought about recycling all those unsightly New Years Eve's corks?



Have no fear Design Within Reach has an answer, chairs!

muzic

Mostly instrumental, good none the less!
Seems I pick up most of my new music on the web
which is great except I felt funny the last time
I went into a record/cd store. I miss it but then again I don't.
Getting music off the internet is more natural now.

Interface Oblivion

Paul Nagle

Magic Sound Fabric

Ron Pieket

Hoozat::Mondegreen

Tascam 788 Club

Laslo Sound Blox

Wild new embedded MP3 player for blogs.
Sound Blox

Really though, I imagine that Windows Media player or Winamp can be set up in a blog so I think the idea isn't anything new just the interface.
Sound Blox is a Flash driven MP3 player and I feel that's what's really being hawked here.
The music by Neuronaut is what got my attention more that the blog embedded MP3 player.

Mister Picassohead

Create a portrait of yourself,
chartoo, a self portrait

or your invisible friend.

Ralph, my alter ego


Good fun, a little creative diversion to brighten up the day.

thanks to webjones

MT, mySQL, it works!

Ah, a slight configuration error and a quick check with the Movable Type support forum yielded all the necessary information.

Hmm, now I'm having a little trouble with the style sheet,
apparently I unknowingly added an extra slash (/)
to the index page by way of the mt.cfg file.

Next up the Plugins Manager.

Upgrade Movable Type

Planning to upgrade to MT 2.65 to get the security enhancements.
After that I plan to change my Movable Type database to mySQL.

Can't wait till they come out with Movable Type 3.0!