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Category Archives: Technology


Movie Makers Just Don’t Get It

by Ryan Parman • April 13, 2006 • Apple, Technology, TV and Movies • No comments

With all of the recent hoopla about Sony dropping the UMD format (here and here), it’s little wonder why. The reason? This Think Secret posting gives all the explanation we need: Cinemanow bills itself as “the #1 legal movie download store” and sells movies a-la-carte, but for the same price, if not higher, in some [...]


We need your feeds!

by Ryan Parman • March 26, 2006 • Code, Projects, Software, Syndication, Technology • No comments

RSS and Atom feeds that aren’t either UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 have proven difficult to find, so I’m calling out to all of you. If you read or publish feeds that are in a character set other than these two, please post them here in the comments. We’ve just finished adding iconv support to SimplePie, and [...]


Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 2 (Build 5335.5)

by Ryan Parman • March 22, 2006 • Browsers, Creating Websites, Software, Technology • No comments

For those who hadn’t yet heard, there is an updated version of Internet Explorer 7 available. If you want to run it in standalone mode, Jon Galloway’s IE7 Launcher will do the trick nicely. Lots of information can be found about IE7, specifically improved CSS compliance (hasn’t yet been updated with the current build information, [...]


Best Wife Ever

by Ryan Parman • November 25, 2005 • Apple, Music, Personal, Technology, TV and Movies • 2 comments

Ryan discusses how awesome his wife is for getting him an iPod 5G.


Skyzyx: Downloads

by Ryan Parman • October 19, 2005 • Apple, Browsers, Technology, Website • 2 comments

Ryan makes his download archive available to the public.


The End of the CD

by Ryan Parman • October 18, 2005 • Music, Technology • No comments

Ryan discusses his music habits and how they’ve changed over the years.


Draggable Lists

by Ryan Parman • September 12, 2005 • Browsers, Code, Software, Technology • 3 comments

Ryan shows a video of his own draggable list software that was heavily inspired by Basecamp, Backpack, and Ta-Da Lists.


My Move To Services

by Ryan Parman • September 3, 2005 • Creating Websites, Technology, Website • 2 comments

Ryan talks about his move from doing everything in-house, to utilizing a flurry of services who do it better than he ever could.

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