I love Amazon Prime.

The one drag about shopping online is that there is no instant gratification.  You have to wait and wait for your product to arrive (unless it's a digital download - but we're talking about physical products here). 

Yesterday I wrote an article about my first impressions of MacOS 10.5 'Leopard'. Today, I have a slightly different perspective as for the first time ever, I've had a failure when installing a version of MacOS X.
In this article I'll provide a way for you to (hopefully) recover the files that are on your system in the event that the same thing happens to you. 

I received my copy of MacOS 10.5 'Leopard' yesterday via FedEx and promptly installed it on 3 of 5 computers that I have at home and in the office (a PowerBook G4, iMac (Intel) and a PowerMac Dual Processor G5).  I also began an install on an iMac G5 which failed on the first installation attempt (and is currently in the process of installing - 2nd attempt). I thought I'd share my impressions of the new OS X (one - because I want to get in the habit of writing more and two - because I was hoping to get some feedback from other users).

To begin, I must admit that I am an unabashed fan of Apple products, and have been since working on my high school newspaper way back in 1992 - 1993. I've used MacOS X since day 1 (all the way back to the first release of the beta version of MacOS X) and feel that I have some insight into the evolution of an OS that is now in its sixth iteration. Below I've listed my first impressions of what I feel is 'The Good', 'The Bad' and 'The Ugly' of MacOS X Leopard.

The great thing about the internet is that if you have a problem, you can usually find a solution to that problem.  The problem I had was that my wife got a new Motorola V365 cell phone and we needed to transfer all of her contacts to the new phone and I thought iSync (via Bluetooth) would be the easiest way to do it. WRONG!

iSync would not recognize the V365 (actually, it did recognize it - it just wouldn't support it).

Fortunately, a search provided a fast and easy solution to my problem.

In a previous post (Why test your website in different browsers?) I talked about the importance of testing your website in a variety of browsers to ensure that it will be rendered properly no matter what browser a visitor to your site is using.

With the launch of the iPhone, mobile web browsing is going to be taken to a whole new level and you, as a web developer need to be sure that sites you develop render properly when viewed not only on the desktop but also on handheld devices like the iPhone (and other mobile phones). 

Someone recently asked me how to add a 'Set as Homepage' link to their website. If you are unfamiliar with these types of links, they are links which you can click on to set the current page as your homepage. It simplifies the process for changing the homepage (see previous tutorial on setting homepage in Internet Explorer) that you have set in your browser. In this tutorial for website designers I'll show you how you can add a link like this to your website.