iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

There’s a whole web site dedicated to dealing with questions that should have been Google’d before they were asked: justfuckinggoogleit.com. But sometimes it can be hard to find help on a subject through Google. Often if you search How to convert an audio file Google will tell you that how is too common and omit… Continue Reading Google tip for finding out how to do something

Just a little after Easter here’s an Easter Egg in Mozilla Firefox: goto the URL “about:mozilla“and learn about “The Book of Mozilla”.

When I write code I like to make it interesting. For example, a variable1 named $person can just as easily be name $dude. I once wrote a Flash animation with a function2 that created four rings, naturally I called it audi(). 1 A value that can be set and changed. 2 Bunch of code that… Continue Reading BeOS has Bes

Formally named DTV and formally only on the Mac, the new version of “Democracy” is ready for both Windows and Mac users. Democracy is a an open source attempt at an internet television. It subscribes to RSS feeds and downloads the enclosed files, stores them and allows you to view them. Unlike iTunes, this tool… Continue Reading Democracy TV

Windows Vista is the next version of the Windows operating system. Someone took the audio from a recent product demo and added screen shots of Apple’s OSX doing the exact same thing. Vista will come out a about a year from now, OSX Tiger came out about a year ago. (One company is a huge… Continue Reading Windows Vista, Out now