Archive for May 25th, 2007

Widget is entertaining and potentially useful

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Corporate Ipsum
Widgets - those handy mini-apps accessible at the touch of a key (F12 on an Mac OS 10.4+). Some of them provide useful data, like the weather widget or the stock ticker widget. Others are purely entertaining, like the Sudoku widget.
Well how about one that is a little of both? That is, silly and useful. Check out Corporate Ipsum widget. It generates filler copy using either corporate style meaningless jargon or the classic lorem ipsum text. You can set the number of paragraphs, the number of sentences per paragraph, and whether or not to include HTML tags.

That’s one lollapalooza of a word!

Friday, May 25th, 2007

I thought that Lollapalooza was a just a cool name for a music festival, so when I heard my mother use the word in a context having nothing to do with music or a festival, I had to look it up.
I thought the spelling was lalapalooza and to be sure, that is a variant spelling of it. Webster’s New World Dictionary points me to the correct spelling and defines this term as a noun, meaning something or someone very striking or exceptional.

Cooliris Previews update released

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Cooliris logoCooliris Previews is a great browser add-on that pops up a link preview without clicking on the link and leaving the page. It is available for Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and Flock browsers.