Many widely deployed mail client apps support S/MIME. Banks worry about phishing and security since generally they are either liable for losses due to unauthorized online account access or act as though they are to encourage use of the online tools rather than expensive agents.
I really wish a bank supported me giving them a [...]
Not perfect.
A clear improvement, however. I particularly dig the new search. Once I figured out I could configure the Archive function to put archives from all my accounts into my local Linux box’s IMAP server I also liked the new Archive function. It nearly matches the system I maintained by hand [...]
Suppose you’ve recorded some video with your Canon 5D mark II. It is in a format that is annoying to edit using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.
Suppose further that you have purchased Cineform Neoscene to transcode that video into a nice-to-edit format.
Further suppose that this workflow was working fine on your old Vista 64-bit machine.
Now, [...]
I preordered Win7 Pro from Amazon. I’ve been using 64-bit Vista for almost a year now and it’s been nice enough.
I decide to do a clean install. The Windows 7 installer works great right up until it won’t accept the product key that came in the package. The “Upgrade” Win7 cannot install [...]
I received a letter from “Network Solutions LLC” claiming they had a security breach and some transactions made via “a web merchant” “may” have been compromised on a particular date. I only had one transaction with a “web merchant” on the date they list with that card.
I wonder if this letter is entirely [...]
I recently upgraded a bunch of physical and virtual machines from various Ubuntu v.older version to Ubuntu 9.04. Naturally, this broke my Python development environment since Python was upgraded from 2.5 to 2.6. I had instructed easy_install to put things into /usr/local.
The upgrades from Ubuntu v.older to 9.04 went quite smoothly on [...]
Singleshot is the photo album software I use to host photos.xythian.com. The last release was .. rather a while ago though I have been making minor enhancements and bug fixes since then for my own use (including flash video support which extracts thumbnails using mplayer and embeds flowplayer to play) though there’s no video [...]
I had something I wanted to try in Python running against Yahoo! Messenger. The obvious choice of library for talking to Yahoo! Messenger was libyahoo2. I could not find a Python binding for it, so I started sketching one together with SWIG. The first step is creating a bunch of empty callbacks. The [...]
Virtualization is still shiny. I’ve been playing with VirtualBox 2.0.0 tonight. I’ m writing this from an Ubuntu 8.04 VM running on my Windows XP desktop machine in “seamless windows” mode. It’s not quite as “seamless” as VMWare Fusion’s Unity mode on the Mac, but it’s still pretty neat.
VirtualBox 2.0.0 [...]
A browser extension that watches you surf through Wikipedia, and then generates a pretty graph with some kind of representation for how long you spent on each page.
On the other hand, maybe not, because I’m not sure I really want to know where that time just went. It would be a pretty branching [...]
I was editing some text with emacs and finally got fed up with the choice between “auto-fill-mode” (spray hard newlines into my file to word-wrap) and “suck” (no word-wrap, long lines). Fortunately for me, not only is there a minor mode to implement this feature, but GNU Emacs 22 (the version I was using) [...]
It’s a significant upgrade from Lightroom 1. Lightroom 1 didn’t make it past “fool around with it a bit” for me because it fell over when I fed it my entire photo tree.
The 30 day trial is key — there’s almost no chance I would have picked LR v2 up without being able to [...]
Adobe products are rare in that I’ve never regretted upgrading — each upgrade has brought changes I’ve liked enough to think the upgrade was worthwhile. Contrast this with Quicken, where I’ve regretted every upgrade as it made the product slower and less reliable (until finally I’ve said “no more” and will not upgrade [...]
It’s All Text! is a pretty handy Firefox extension. It lets you set up an external editor and puts a little ‘edit’ button in the corner of every textarea that pops open an external editor of your choosing. Then it watches the file the external editor is editing and refreshes the textarea whenever [...]
I’ve previous posted about using PixVue to edit image metadata directly from Windows Explorer. I just stumbled across Microsoft Photo Info while going to download Microsoft RAW Image Viewer so I could see thumbnails for CR2 files (Canon RAW images) in Explorer.
Microsoft Photo Info enables easy editing of “metadata” for [...]
I’m playing with Adobe Contribute CS3. I haven’t had much to say here lately, but maybe a clever client will remind me to post more. I’ve been posting the occasional photo. I figure at this point that folks interested in my photos have probably subscribed to the feed there so I don’t usually cross-post them [...]
I picked up a Logitech MX Revolution wireless laser mouse a week or so ago. It replaced my 3 year old Logitech wireless laser mouse. Who doesn’t like wireless lasers?
The new mouse is shaped a little differently than the old mouse and has a couple more buttons and one new wheel [...]
A tool and a library I’ve been using or at least trying out:
Launchy
Free, open-source Windows app that indexes Program Files and any other directories you tell it to. Then alt-space pops up a command line box and it autocompletes as you type. I installed it a while ago and meant to mention [...]
Ad-Supported services like many (most?) web sites and broadcast television are clearly a valid business model. I just wish more of them provided a simple way for me to pay the producers of the content (and a suitable fee to the entity distributing it to me, if they aren’t the same) to give [...]
Last weekend I ordered a Canon SD800IS from Dell. Dell shipped it on Monday. So far so good.
Dell used DHL to ship it. I’m sure DHL is cheaper than UPS or Fedex because otherwise I don’t understand why anyone uses DHL. I got a call on Thursday from DHL [...]