They have just about anything you could ever need, from an RSS feed reader, to apps for writers, and fabulous business apps. Even better, a whole bunch of free apps! http://myownapp.com/site/free/free.html

Some of them are even portable, so you can stick em on a thumb drive and take em with you!

I’m a Mac app addict. I’m gonna have a bunch of reviews coming up soon about my favorite apps, I just gotta decide where to start!

Fortunately for my little tan friend, I have found Netrenderer… god dammit I love words with double er endings. Netrenderer provides INSTANT screenshots of your site in Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5 on Windows. Lets look at an example, so you all can see what a difference a browser makes;

First, my pretty test site on my MacBook in Firefox:

Next, the same site looking all jagged and stoopid in IE 6 on a PC:

They even have options for mixed and difference overlays, so you can really get a good look at positional differences in IE6 and 7. They take screen shots of the site in both browsers, then lay them on top of each other:

Netrenderer is limited in browser options compared to browsershots.org, but all I really need is access to Internet Explorer on Windows. Thats the only browser I ever have problems with.
I hate you IE

For those of you who don’t know about his murderous past, google “ Chappaquiddick “ you’ll find plenty of info. To sum up the incident, good ol Ted ‘vehicular homicide’ Kennedy crashed his car into a lake and left his passenger to die. While his pregnant wife and kids were at home, Ted was co-hosting a party, drinking the night away. He then left with a young woman in his car and ended up off the side of a short bridge, upside down in the water. He managed to get himself out, and instead of calling for help, he fled to find his lawyers. No one contacted the police. The wreck was discovered the next morning, with the dead body of Mary Jo Kopechne clinging to the back seat, where she was holding her head above water in a small air pocket. It’s believed she was alive there for almost two hours before finally suffocating. Ted was covering his ass for nine hours before the scene was discovered, adamantly insisting on telling the police that Mary Jo was driving, though his lawyers convinced him otherwise. This was no childhood indiscretion, it all happened WHILE he was a US Senator from Massachusetts.

Is he really so loved ONLY because he’s a Kennedy? What’s with the love affair with that family? Statistically they have more fuck ups than heroes. Being from the cold snowy northeast I have the pleasure (read: agony) of seeing all those ‘Joe for oil’ ads from Joe Kennedy. He plays the hero by, literally, turning a wrench on a big offshore oil rig for evil dictator Hugo Chavez. Cheap oil deals for us while the Venezuelan President creates propaganda videos touting his power over the weak American people. Granted, Joe never killed anyone. He did however paralyze his brothers girlfriend when he crashed his jeep, driving recklessly. I wont mention the unfortunate accident he had while playing with fireworks with his son…

As if that’s not enough, have you heard of Rosemary Kennedy? She was the inspiration for the start of the Special Olympics. Heres a quote to sum it up;

“ Likely dyslexic and considered to be slightly brain-damaged from birth, Rose Marie Kennedy (her christening name) was rendered incapable of intelligible speech or caring for herself at the age of 23 by a lobotomy, requested by her father, Joe Sr., that was intended to cure her increasing mood swings and make her more manageable. The operation instead reduced her to an infantile state. She lived in a residential care facility in Wisconsin until her death on 7 January 2005.”

Make her more manageable? Touching.

I really could go on and on. Instead, as a tribute to my new favorite site, Lolcats, I give you…….Lolkennedys!

I got yer Kennedy family legacy right here

They have made the kick ass even more kick assier! The new version has lots of new features, my favorite is the palette browser.

You can extract all the colors from any web page and save it as your very own color palette in the palette browser, or send it to an online palette saver and share it with the world! You have all your color values handy in one place for all the sites you take care of, or just some great color inspiration from sites you find along your sick porno browsing adventures.

Perv!

See the version history for the newest features and screen shots.

I love capitalism and capitalism loves me. I love capitalism and capitalism loves me. I love capitalism and capitalism loves me. I love capitalism and capitalism loves me. I love capitalism and capitalism loves me. I love capitalism and capitalism loves me. I love capitalism and capitalism loves me.

vs.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure.

See what I mean?

ANYWAYS, there are lots of ways to get the lorem ipsum text, but MY favorite is a handy dashboard widget I found called Dolor sit amet. You really can’t get any simpler than this;

All you do is select characters, words or paragraph, then type how many you want (e.g. 4 paragraphs, 50 characters, 10 words) click the ‘to clipboard’ button and presto! It’s on your clipboard ready to be pasted into whatever you’re working on.

I love it, and you should too. Because I said so.