Have you been reading Mark Pilgrim’s 30 days to a more accessible weblog? You should be, it’s got some really good stuff. For example, in the last two days he’s had links to Lynx viewer, which lets you take a quick look at how your site renders to someone using Lynx, and to VisCheck which will let you take a peek at how your color scheme would work for someone who has certain types of colorblindness. Good tools to keep on hand.
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http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/index.htm Free online lookups. There are more lookups on this site then I could possible mention, but it’s a handy tool for looking up zip codes, area codes, zip codes within a county, campaign contributions, demographics, etc. Follow these topics: Uncategorized
Last night, the intermittent drop outs of my wireless connection due to the old SMC router finally drove me over the edge. So I figured, it’s an old router, surely there’s a firmware update, right? Turns out there was, and it turns out that doing the upgrade got rid of the intermittent drops. I couldn’t…
I talked about running a firewall on Friday. Today, I find this article on ZDnet: Why you must install a firewall NOW Yes, once again, you heard it here first! Life of a one-man IT Department, beating major media sources on a regular basis, and by that, of course, I mean it happened at least…
I’m spending my afternoon updating the ROM on the Dell Axim. Yeah I know everyone else has already done it, but hey, I’ve been busy. :)Anyway, I’m now running a full backup and already have the 27MB file downloaded and waiting for this backup to finish. Wish me luck! Later: Everything seems to be working…