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You only understand the value of Internet when you lose it.

Due to a stupid faulty underground cable.

For 3 straight days.

While being busy and anxious to see what’s cooking on ‘net.

Sigh. Have a nice 1st May all. Keep flowery.

Unless you were hiding under a rock (call me Windows) during the last few days, you’ve heard the name “Coda” before.

Coda is a nice little app from Panic (think Transmit) that combines unusually a text editor, a live previewer, a CSS editor, a terminal and much more. Like Dreamweaver, minus the hefty price tag.

There is not much to say that anyone else didn’t. Coda is nice and useful for all us designer guys, so if you’re into heavy development, stick to Textmate or vim or emacs or whatever. Coda has too much bling for you.

And all this for just 79$? That sounds way cool. Mac designer people, will you buy?

panic, coda

When do you realize a piece of software is badly written? When it makes you feel stupid. Or like you missed something on the way.

Every day at work I get a minimum of 100 spam e-mails, which are conveniently filtered and stored in my Outlook 2007 Spam folder.

And what does a person usually do when she sees that much of spam? Empty folder.

So, where is it? Shouldn’t it be there?

In short, to delete my spam e-mails I have to manually select all and delete them. How convenient.

Now please tell me I’m missing something somewhere. Which I shouldn’t, since there is an “Empty folder” option already in other folders. But anyway.

EDIT: To add to the madness, all my home PC’s Outlook Junk E-mail folders (phew, how did I say all that?) actually do have the “Empty folder” option. Someone’s toying with my nerves.

microsoft office, outlook 2007, outlook

Straight out of Barebones website:

Yojimbo - Your effortless, reliable information organizer for Mac OS X.

Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible.

If you’ve never used an information manager before, Yojimbo may seem pointless to you. But I am into this kind of applications for a while now and I know it helped me organize the chaos of the various tidbits I collect on my Macbook everyday.

What Yojimbo can do:

• It can store web archives, bookmarks, notes, passwords, serial numbers, anything that counts. Encrypted too.
• Bookmarklets! Add pages to Yojimbo nice and easy. A tag version too!
• Other information managers can do that too, but I first saw it in Yojimbo: You can print almost anything to a PDF directly stored in Yojimbo.
• Quicksilver integration. A nifty Quicksilver plugin can help you add things to Yojimbo with just a few keystrokes. Aaaah, Quicksilver, how I love thee.
• It has the simplest of simple mechanisms to add things to it. Twice.

What Yojimbo can’t do:

• If you’re not into organization much, you’ll leave Yojimbo a big mess, as the rest of your life already is.
• It does not offer a way to easily store photos. You can store them embedded in notes, though.
• No nested folders, no nested collections, no nested anything.
• Kinda poor bookmarks support, I’d prefer them to load automatically in a browser window like in DEVONthink.
• Not for the faint of pocket: at 39.99$, Yojimbo is kinda pricey for the average Joe.

yojimbo, barebones, quicksilver, devonthink

Remember the “Why Greek sites suck” theme that I never followed due to busy times?

Time for its first. The winner of the ranting hat for today: the site of Q-Telecom, one of the big mobile services provider of Greece.

I’ll be brief.

Q-Telecom “sorry page”: Our site is too cool for Safari

A flash intro? A semi-downloaded page? No, the index page.

On hovering the menu, options appear. Almost a km away.

To add to the confusing lot, each menu pops up its options in a different direction than the previous one. The first option, left, second, right, third, left, you get the point.

My virgin eyes. My virgin eyes…

They even have different language icons. A typical square one for english, a waving flag for greek. I mean, Jesus.

q telecom, q, infoquest