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We are about half way through with the Podcast project. It's looking good. :) However we need some more people to be able to finish it. We need someone to design a cool album cover and we need a few more people to do a small (1-2 minute) audio recording based on a brief. If you have half an hour to spend on this community project let us know and I will send you an invitation to the basecamp project site.

Now that Tiger's first update 10.4.1 is out, it's about time to speculate about what will be/is the next codename for 10.5. Mac OS X versions are named after large felines. Let's see a quick history first:

• Mac OS X 10.0 - Cheetah
• Mac OS X 10.1 - Puma
• Mac OS X 10.2 - Jaguar
• Mac OS X 10.3 - Panther
• Mac OS X 10.4 - Tiger

Let's enter these names to Google Sets and see what the small set gives us:

The best free stat site Reinvigorate is about to relaunch. You can register now and if you're lucky you will be able to beta test.

Nobody knows. The formula for ranking pages at google is one of their best kept secrets. So, I'd like to preempt that everything I speculate here are just my uneducated guessings. I have to be careful, because I'm not supposed to hack the Google formula and I certainly won't even try that. By doing that I would be risking the cb ranking to be reset to zero, like it happened with WordPress.org recently for a different serious reason. Therefore I hope that this topic stays within the boundaries of a Sunday afternoon informal discussion and won't go into technical details.

You have a great web site. You have great content. You update frequently. Still, you don't have traffic. Why? There can be many reasons, but search engine ranking is one of the most important factors. For most web sites, a big percentage of the external traffic comes from search engines, nowadays mostly Google. Many of the visitors who become regular readers are finding sites through search engines, rather than referrals from other sites or personal connections. The higher your site shows among the search engine results, the more chance you have for people to click on your link and get to know your great site. So what to do to have high google ranking?

This is a very basic tutorial on how to password protect a directory on an Apache webserver. In this example I will protect a directory on your own OS X installation.

You will need to have web sharing enabled in System Preferences -> Sharing

Part 1, Creating this necessary files.

First of all copy and paste the following code into a text editor.

AuthUserFile /Library/Webserver/.htpasswd
AuthName "Enter username and password"
AuthType Basic
<Limit>
require valid-user
</Limit>


You will want to save this on your local machine as .htaccess.

Next start up Terminal and type the following command:

htpasswd -c .htpasswd admin


You should be presented with a 'New Password:' prompt. Enter your password, press return and repeat to confirm.

This will create a file called .htpasswd in your home directory.

I have to give credit to whoever created these ads. They are great viral tools and I'd like to do my part in creating hype around them, because the more people use Firefox the better for all parties. Even MS wouldn't mind I guess, since they are not making money selling IE. So kudos, good job! However, I guess there is always room for improvement.

Have you ever felt that a logo just doesn't fit the great brand that is behind it? That happens usually because of bad or boring type. When you design a logo avoid this mistake like vampire the holy water. So many times I see good logos with good symbols all ruined by a logotype that is just simply a not even a well chosen font. So, what can we do about it?

As cb is growing it may become more difficult to keep up with all the posts. To fight the information overload I'd like to give a quick overview of some features that will hopefully help the case.

In the various niches of design, icon & interface design used to occupy a small and somewhat neglected part of the the overall field. However in the last few years, understanding of usability and graphic display options have improved to the point where an applications look and feel can be a selling point in itself. A well designed and clean interface implies a certain professionalism to a product, an impression that Apple uses to great effect.