https://www.pawprint.net News from PawPrint.net - Technobloggle en Copyright (c) 1992-2026 PawPrint.net web@pawprint.net PawPrint XDe News Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:25:02 -0800 120 https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/154/Power-Mixer/ https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/154/Power-Mixer/ I had been looking for some better controls for my system audio and finally found a great solution in Power Mixer from Actual Solution. The windows mixer replacement boasts a wide array of features for the audio enthusiast and hobbyist alike. https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/149/A-Google-Maps-App-won-t-help-iOS6/ https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/149/A-Google-Maps-App-won-t-help-iOS6/ Should we be surprised that Google isn't planning to release an iOS native Maps app soon? Perhaps the real question should be: would it even matter if they did? The real problem with the horrifically bad maps in iOS6 really has nothing to do with the dedicated maps app. So what questions should we be asking? https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/132/Are-you-secure-online-/ https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/132/Are-you-secure-online-/ Are you secure online? Protect yourself by taking a little time and updating your passwords around and about your digital world: Then keep them updated: New year = new passwords - it is well worth the time. Here are some tips for creating and managing secure, easy to remember passwords. https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/147/Synching-iPhone-iPad-Android-Mac-and-Thunderbird/ https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/147/Synching-iPhone-iPad-Android-Mac-and-Thunderbird/ I have a Mac, PC, Android, iPhone and iPad; plus I use Thunderbird for mail on the PC and want all these things to seamlessly sync up their calendar and contacts. Really this is very rudamentry data and should be easy but for some reason it isn´t. There is a solution though but it involves some mighty strange but simple tricks. https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/146/PHP-5-4-Gotchas-for-Developers/ https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/146/PHP-5-4-Gotchas-for-Developers/ After running PHP 5.4 on my development environment for a while I have hit several things that could easily cause enough grief that they need calling attention to. These are new features or changes that will break some existing edge cases in somewhat hidden or obscure ways and can take a long time to find if you don´t know what you´re looking for. https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/145/Mousewheel-Jog-Shuttle-in-Steinberg-Nuendo-4/ https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/145/Mousewheel-Jog-Shuttle-in-Steinberg-Nuendo-4/ For anyone using the Steinberg Nuendo family of audio post software this is a little tutorial for how to overcome the rather gaping hole of no way to Jog/Shuttle on the timeline using the mousewheel. It uses a combination of key assignments in Nuendo and AutoHotKey on PC to add this key feature of standard editing workflows. https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/144/Bitrates-and-Codecs-and-Bandwidth-Oh-My-/ https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/144/Bitrates-and-Codecs-and-Bandwidth-Oh-My-/ For many, even many video professionals, encoding and modern video compression is basically just a black box full of voodo computer magic. Most just pick a preset and hope for the best and sadly so many of the presets are really not all that great. I get asked constantly for advice in this area and over the years have learned a lot. This needs to be a more complete article, and eventually I will create one - but for now I´m going to address a few or the more salient points. https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/140/Web-Design-in-1995/ https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/140/Web-Design-in-1995/ Inspired by an article about the history of web design shared by @timothywhalin I went hunting in my archives to find the oldest web design for which I still had a copy. Since I started building sites in 1992 I wasn´t sure how far back I could go - Managed to find my moldy oldies from 1995 through 1998 and though I´d share them for fun. https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/139/Google-Facebook-Pay-Pal-and-others-anti-phishing-email-protocol/ https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/139/Google-Facebook-Pay-Pal-and-others-anti-phishing-email-protocol/ The plan surrounds the existing systems DKIM and SPF and from a quick read seems to basically be an attempt to back and promote these existing systems with a few add-ons. To quote the dmarc.org web site "A group of leading organizations came together in the spring of 2011 to collaborate on a method for combating fraudulent email at Interenet-scale." https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/138/PHP-5-4-nearing-release/ https://www.pawprint.net/news/article/138/PHP-5-4-nearing-release/ In a recent post on Google+ the opening is laced with humor "We are in the final push to PHP 5.4 and we need your help. Everyone who is using PHP can give us a hand here, regardless of your technical abilities. Facebook employees, take a break from calculating your stock option scenarios and give us an hour of your time...."