Web Photo Album 2.1 for Dreamweaver MX Extension on the Exchange – Been waiting for the release of the Web Photo Album for DMX? Wait no longer. Create your own online photo album for business or leisure. Web Photo Album 2.1 for Dreamweaver MX automates the process of putting digital photographs on the Web. It… Continue reading Exchange

Developer Resource Kit available –Macromedia today announced the availability of the Macromedia MX Developer Resource Kit, Volume One. The kit, the first of a quarterly series, contains extensions, components, and resources to enable Macromedia Flash MX, Dreamweaver MX, and ColdFusion MX developers to quickly and easily create and deploy rich Internet applications. Macromedia MX Developer Resource… Continue reading Macromedia MX Developer Resource Kit, Volume One

Linux Journal – Dot Compost and the Danger to Your Privacy. Buyers are getting more than they imagined as auction sites sell off the machines, but overlook the information that's still inside. [ … ] I pulled out my Linuxcare Bootable Business Card, a disk I helped develop that I often use when doing forensics… Continue reading Dot Compost and the Danger to Your Privacy

In South Carolina, Judges Seek to Ban Secret Settlements. South Carolina's federal trial judges have voted to ban secret legal settlements, saying they hide the truth about hazardous products, inept doctors and abusive priests. By Adam Liptak. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Interview: Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville on Information Architecture. We interview the authors of O'Reilly's Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd. Ed., Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville. Learn what's new in the second edition, how IA has changed in the last four years, and about controlled (and out of control) vocabularies. By Andy… Continue reading Interview: Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville on Information Architecture

Interesting factoids from Groove usage analysis aggregated across a very broad statistically significant anonymous sample set.  I did this in order to empirically validate some intuitions related to some UI design enhancements that I'm considering.  The analysis does indeed validate that the 2-25 design center of the product is precisely the sweet spot of where it's… Continue reading Groove

Macromedia technology showcases – Here are a few links to some high profile sites that use Macromedia Technologies. If you have a site that you think should be profiled, let us know and drop us a line. World's leading retailer of athletic footwear and apparel, Foot Locker, operates 3,600 retail stores in 14 countries and… Continue reading drop us a line

IBM hooks dorm washers, dryers to Web. “The souped-up washers and dryers also let students check a Web site for empty machines. From the comfort of their desktop or laptop, co-eds can add soap and fabric softener that is dispensed by the washing machine. Finally when the wash is done, kids can get an e-mail… Continue reading IBM hooks dorm washers, dryers to Web

RIAA: Feeling Burn of Ripped CDs. “The recording industry blames the rapid decline of album sales on a new technology that allows people to easily copy and transport music. It's expected to cripple the major record labels. The year was 1979.” [Infinite loop.] * [Archipelago]

Somewhere, George Orwell is chuckling, softly. “Senator Clinton was booed when she walked on stage last October at a rock concert in Madison Square Garden to benefit 9/11 victims. It was shown live by VH1 but, as ABC's John Stossel illustrated in a July 20/20 special on media distortions, when the Viacom-owned cable channel replayed… Continue reading Somewhere, George Orwell is chuckling, softly