Blog from the Loft

I live on my palm Treo. I realized that the one non Palm application that I use the most is — Handy Shopper. A freeware shopping list manager. It is a little quirky. But it does the job. It is the perfect app for a PDA. Go try it out.

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This is how you add your own additional validation logic to a form in the newforms library:
Create a clean_XXXX method in your forms class. This will be called by the forms validation logic. Subsitute XXXX with the field name. Inside this method you will have access to all forms data clean’ed so far, including the [...]

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We must be getting close. MB now lets you “reserve” a smart car for $99. Go to the www.smartusa.com/ and sign up. According to the site:

Would you like reserve your very own new 2008 smart fortwo? Our exciting $99 Reservation Program is now open to all smart enthusiasts. Be sure to share the news about [...]

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I finally upgraded to Firefox 2. It has more built-in features so I need to use less of add-ons. One of the most use feature for me is tabbed browsing. I used to use “tab mix plus” on 1.x firefox to fine tune tabbed browsing. Now most of the features are included in the base [...]

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I mentioned earlier that I was testing out BlogJet, a commercial blogging client for Windows with a 30 days trial. It’s 30 days. I liked the product, it is very simple to use. It does not support Amazon associate product linking. If it did I might have paid for it. $39.95 is not cheap for [...]

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I finally got my home digital music solution implemented. You’ll need:

one 20inch Apple iMac
iTunes
FrontRow
Logitech Harmony 880 Remote Control
A sound system with a receiver that supports digital music input (e.g. an Onkyo TX-SR674 7.1 Channel Up-Converting A/V Receiver

Three key things make this work:

the iMac screen is big enough to be used across the room when [...]

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