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Thanks to Michael for reminding me of this webgem. Its about how VI, and how its wimpy to use it (obviously) for those of you not knowing VI, its an impressive editor – just a little rough for new comers and everyone grown up with something other than a command prompt as the GUI for a computer. (Alas, no fancy menus and all keyboard shortcuts), the only editor that is less new-user friendly is ED. Still VI is one of my favorite editors when dealing with config files etc. on […]

This is just so cool. iSpell is a spelling tool that works directly in Internet Explorer to spell check everything you put into input fields. :-) It has support for US-english, canadian english, UK english and something they call ‘common english’. And its free for personal and not-for-profit use. Now I can stop cut ‘n pasting between programs when I am blogging. Only downside is that it kind of gets me stuck with IE again. [Via Burch]

Interesting announcement from the norwegian browser company Opera today: “Macromedia to Embed the Opera Browser in Web Authoring Products” Today, Opera Software announced an agreement with Macromedia, whereby the two companies will work together to integrate their products for the Mac platform. Opera will deliver a full-featured, embeddable version of its desktop browser to be integrated into a wide range of Macromedia Web development products. The anouncement has sparked some questions in the blog community about what this means for the Macromedia products. At ActionScript.com the question was: Macromedia uses

Denim is a really wicked cool project that the Group for User Interface Research at UC Berkley have been working on. I’ll be a little lazy and quote Branden from his posting (Its late here, ok? ;-): Denim is a pen-based Java application that you use to design working prototypes of web sites that consist entirely of sketches. You just sketch out the pages, draw lines between them, and they work! It is based on a SATIN, a toolkit that they developed for making pen-based applications in Java. Very cool

Robert Hall writes about W3Cs Speech Recognition Grammar Specification which today advanced to “Candidate Recommendation”. The standard itself is intersting enough, especially if all the vendors that have their own proporitary formats would at least add support for it. Robert has been working with speech for a while (see previous posting about his speaking blog). I have a strong feeling that speech recognition software coupled with speech synthesis and interesting programming should make for some interesting web experiences in the future. (Wired had an article about the adult aspects of

Dick Applebaum over at O’Reilly Network has published the first part of a series of three articles where he writes about ColdFusion MX on Mac OS X [Via John Dowdell]

On wednesday the 19th of June Tom Harwood of Macromedia Server Products, CFML Language Development posted a Lisence Approval Request for the “Macromedia Open Source License” to the Open Source Initiative You can follow the discussion/thread at the Opensource.org mailinglist. The reception of the request has been good, although the license in many ways appear as a vanity license, as pointed out in the discussion of the request and by Steve Mallett that picked up the posting to the list. In my opinion this is a good first step. hopefully