Archives for the month of: August, 2007

printing to PDF

2007/08/30 //

One of the biggest changes for me with computing on the Macintosh has been the amount of PDFs I generate. The Mac OS allows any application to “print to PDF” which is an amazing feature for obvious reasons. That and these PDFs are all indexed by Spotlight makes it really handy to search for things that I’ve saved to my HDD for posterity.

Recently Mac OSX Hints covered a free “virtual printer” called CUPS-PDF, which basically takes a few of the steps out of “printing to PDF” and makes it even easier and faster. I’ve just installed this new “virtual printer” and can highly recommend it.

Categories Macintosh

Habbo China closed

2007/08/30 //

Popular avatar-based virtual community Habbo Hotel has closed their China site.

Dear visitors:
unfortunately we have some bad news for you: since August 24, 2007 Habbo.cn has been closed at least temporarily, and possibly for a long time. Our Habbo Staff is currently working hard to find a way to continue the service in the future – you will be informed about the situation as soon as we know. We are really sorry about this. Meanwhile you can choose to visit other Habbo services all over the world.

Billsdue says that this is because Shockwave never took off in China. Such is the fickle nature of proprietary browser plugins.

Categories China

Living in the Mission

2007/08/28 //

Living in the Mission, originally uploaded by JJ San.

Ah, San Francisco….

Categories Photo

Fotolog sold to Hi-Media for $90 mil.

2007/08/28 //

I read that Fotolog has been sold to Hi-Media for $90 million.

Congrats to John Borthwick (whom I know from his time at AOL), Scott Heiferman (whom I met once during the iTraffic days.)

Fotolog is one of the few East Coast, nay, New York City-based Internet ventures and so it’s great to see them doing well. While I know that NYC will never equal Sand Hill Road, it’s nice to see good people doing Internet work and their work being valued in NYC.

Categories Internet, New York City

Wikipedia faster than Kantei

2007/08/28 //

This is sort of like shooting fish in a barrel I suppose but I note that the next day after Abe announces his new cabinet (shuffling chairs on the deck of the…) Wikipedia “Cabinet of Japan” is updated, but the English Kantei page is not.
If you’re going to trouble of having an English site for the Kantei, why not update content at the same time? Don’t tell me that the Japanese government doesn’t have the resources.

Categories Japan