Ken Martin’s Blog

The Apple developer sites for both “Web Apps” and “Safari” are not responding at all. Ken’s Paranoid Prediction: Apple’s pulling back on the stunningly cool and advanced CSS functionality (transforms and animations) now available in Safari Mobile and iPhone native WebView in favor of the same functionality in native iPhone programming. WWDC09 is coming up [...]

I know… you’re asking “so what?” Well, we’ve been working on this iPhone application for a while, and it’s just been accepted into the iTunes Store! Yay! UPDATE: “We” being folks at Digital Cyclone, where I work. And mom, don’t click the link. I don’t think you’re using iTunes. I’ll tell you about it later. :)

I asked a question on the wonderful Mac site Macintouch about multiple keyboards and multiple input languages. Basically, I want to be able to easily switch between typing Greek and English. There were some excellent responses, one in particular which had a link which led me to a little Googling, and man, are there some [...]

The English Standard Version is a fairly new English translation of the Bible which, as I understand it, tries to be as literal to the text as possible while trying to avoid some of the sometimes wooden phrasing found in very literal translations like the New American Standard. I tend to like this side of [...]

Since I’m a bit busy due to our internet outage, here’s a couple of little keyboard tricks for Mac: function-delete deletes forward instead of backwards option-delete deletes a whole word backwards Thrilling, eh? Well, I couldn’t find them online when I wanted them, so there you go.

I’ve been interested in weather since I was a little kid with my little home weather station. I know. Dweeb. Anyway, some years ago, I got to mix that interest with my geek work while I was working for Digital Cyclone helping build different bits of My-Cast, which I still use daily. Well, something new is [...]

Xyle Scope is pretty much everything I’ve ever wanted in a CSS app. Minus the little feature requests I’ve now already asked for. :) A great tool for examination and troubleshooting, learning, and live editing and correcting. Exporting reformatted style sheets is sweet. I will finally be cracking open my legendarily tight wallet and ponying up [...]

I had to get this “out there”. Everyone figures on seeing an Intel-based machine - maybe a laptop. And a more media-center-ish Mac. I’m throwing a Bluetooth-enable iPod in the mix, too. Seems like a no-brainer. UPDATE: Shows what I know. :) Grrr. Where is the Media Mac?! Well, anyway, check out the newest if you’re interested. [...]

Well, it turns out this page was crashing for my mom and Helen; both on Mac OS 10.3 using Safari. I thought it might be the Greek text via Unicode below, but it turns out it was the graphic of Jack (below) which I’d saved from Apple’s Preview! Bad JPEG. Hmph. Well, it’s fixed now. [...]