Finamore Design

I am con­stantly being asked what RSS is and how to use it. Luck­ily, my friends over getusb.info wrote an easy to under­stand arti­cle all about RSS.

Check it out…

How can I use RSS?

At GetUSB.info we receive emails from time-to-time ask­ing about the RSS feed fea­ture we pro­vide and how it can be used. Today we are tak­ing a few min­utes to cover what an RSS feed is, how you can use it, what you need and how to val­i­date the ones you sub­scribe too.

A while ago I wrote an arti­cle prais­ing the Fire­Fox browser. In that arti­cle I men­tioned that there were some great exten­sions or add-ons that you could install to enhance your web surf­ing expe­ri­ences. Here is alist of the plug-ins I have installed and use on a fre­quent basis. (more…)

Ever since Mac went to OS X and Adobe decided not to update ATM Deluxe I have been look­ing for a good font man­age­ment soft­ware pack­age. I tried Suit­case and Font Reserve but had issues with both pieces of soft­ware. Thank­fully, Lino­Type released Font­Ex­plorer X for us Mac users. (more…)

Color Schemer is a pro­fes­sional color match­ing appli­ca­tion for any­one from hob­by­ists to advanced pro­fes­sion­als whether you are on a mac, pc, or on the web. Finally an inde­pen­dent soft­ware com­pany that gets it.

When you open the appli­ca­tion you will see three columns. In the first col­umn you will find your stan­dard color mix­ing pal­lette where you can select your base color. In the main col­umn you will see a tabbed color wheel that is cre­ated from your selected base color. And the third col­umn is where you store your pre­ferred colors.

This appli­ca­tion is so intu­itive there is really no need for a man­ual. (more…)

Panic is one of my favorite inde­pen­dent devel­op­ers. They have a slew of excel­lent prod­ucts, but top­ping the list is Trans­mit. An FTP soft­ware packge for Mac OS X. Did I say FTP? That would be like say­ing the Mac­in­tosh is a computer.

This app does so much more. Aside from sup­port­ing SFTP, Web­DAV (for all you .mac users), even TLS/SSL, it also has tabbed view­ing for mul­ti­ple con­nec­tion, batch down­load­ing, search capa­bil­i­ties, dash­board wid­get, you can even cre­ate droplets (sim­i­lar to alias’) so you can just drag and drop files to the server of your choice.

But the fun does not stop there. They have built in .mac syn­chro­niza­tion, col­umn brows­ing,  tabbed win­dow brows­ing, dock status/send, a safari like favorites list, and the list of fea­tures goes on and on.
You get all this for the mod­est price of $29.95. I use this pro­gram so often it has become a per­ma­nent fix­ture in my doc!

It seems crazy to me that there are still peo­ple using Inter­net Explorer. Depend­ing upon where you get your stats, IE users range from 60–85% of the web.

Today XHTML/CSS com­pli­ance is becom­ing manda­tory for all web­sites. IE6 and below has so many issues with dis­play­ing what most other browsers have long since cor­rected. Yet I digress, this arti­cle is not meant to be a Microsoft bash­ing event, instead I am here to sing the praises of Fire­Fox (FF). (more…)