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FamFamFam (great name, honestly) released a set of icons which one can use in his projects for free. They’re very colorfull and feel a tad like candy KDE icons; I like them, and the price is perfect. Maybe just what you need to enhance that webshop you’ve been working on.

famfamfam.com: Icons

If there’s one thing which I don’t like about iCal (well there’re actually 2 things, but I’ll only talk about one of those now) then it’s that newly created events don’t contain an alarm. On the one hand it’s tedious task to select 10 new events by hand and set an alarm for each of them, and on the other I frequently even forget that and thus accordingly forget the actual event as iCal never informs me

Now Robert Blum wrote a small iCal Fix which adresses just this issue: Newly created events now automatically haven an alarm set.
Great.

Making a better iCal

Here’s a pretty interesting overview which covers and compares the following web streaming formats:

The comparison contains examples as well as detailed information about the overall quality and performance of the codec.

Although the article specializes on using the tested codecs for screen capturing, it still encloses much information which can also be used when trying to find the right codec for other streaming and or video tasks.

Best codec for Screen capture content (benchmark)

Camino, the other Gecko-powered browser for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 1.02b.

Personally, I prefer Camino over Firefox on OSX as it feels more integrated (which it actually is). Though I still use Firefox alot since there’re so many usefull extensions - especially for WebDevelopers - which don’t work in Camino at all.

Camino - Mozilla power, Mac style.

Community MX, which specialises on Macromedia application tutorials, is offering free tutorials during the final week of 2005. Over 1400 articles and tutorials will be free to read. You still need to be a member to download support files and use the forums.

Flash, Fireworks, ColdFusion, Freehand and tutorials for Dreamweaver MX

Ok this is not so much about Mac or Design, but I thought I’d share it anyway.

TIME presents the 24 Best Photos of the Year 2005, there’re some stunning pictures among them.

TIME: The Best Photos of the Year 2005

Flash 8 introduces several new technologies which enhance and optimize it’s runtime speed, especially when dealing with loads of vectors or bitmap data.

Guy Watson, over at macromedia.com (funny, it say’s ‘Adobe (formerly macromedia) now) explains the magic and details behind these techniques, and how one can use them to increase Flash’s speed

Macromedia - Developer Center : Using Bitmap Caching in Flash

I’ve never used .Mac, but one of the features which I lusted after was the ability to sync the calendars, bookmarks, contacts, mails etc among your Macs (if you have more than one that is ;) )

I researched a bit into this area, and tried to build a little tool by uploading the Database files to a WebDav server, but that ain’t syncing and it felt so kludgy that I quickly stopped doing so.

Now TUAWTUAW reports about an Application which uses the built-in sync-features to sync several Macs, just without .Mac.
Great

Read more here.

Nice. Title says it all, saves you considerable time.

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