Truly Random
By Gary Ferrington

This section of the newsletter has been anything but random since it was started. Each week has focused around a theme. That changes for this month only as we present links that people have suggested we make available to others. We hope you find these of value.

AddressBookToCS. Convert your Address Book to CSV for import into Gmail, Outlook, or any of the countless other apps that won't import .vcards (the Address Book format).

Anti-Phishing Working Group. Here you'll find the latest news and information on phishing attacks. You'll also find advice on how to protect yourself. CA

ARTstor. This is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's test site for the onlin archiving of images and art data for educational use. CA

GmailStatus is a handy utility for users of Google's new email service Gmail. It installs itself in the Mac OS X menubar. It notifies you when you have new new mail and the number of unread messages in the inbox. BB

Interactive Design Annual 2004. Here are some of my favorites due to the elegant design and the way they present information in an engaging and interactive way. All of these are award winners from Communication Arts Interactive Design Annual (last 2 years). TK

Mail Scripts 2.4.1. Useful AppleScripts for Apple Mail. The scripts are distributed free of charge - I wrote them for my own personal use and decided to make them available for the Macintosh community. BB

Page Sucker. This is a small utility that allows entire Web page hierarchies to be downloaded automatically. The pages will thereby be modified in such a way that they can then be viewed off-line (even after copying them to a CD-ROM or the like) GG

SfariSorter. Most of today's web browsers, Safari included, do no automatic sorting of bookmarks. SafariSorter does the sorting so that organized people like you will no longer have to spend time alphabetizing your bookmarks manually. Easily and automatically sort, filter, and batch-rename your Safari bookmarks. BB

Search Engine Optimization Tips. Search engine optimization can be difficult and confusing. Knowing this we decided to put together some tips to help you with the process. They cover everything you need to know about optimizing your web pages for the search engines quickly and easily. Source: Microsoft Small Business Center. GG

Using XHTML/CSS for an Effective SEO Campaign. This site focuses entirely on the benefits of using XHTML and CSS to show you how to improve the readability of your code for search engine spiders, maintain a good content-to-code ratio without going beyond file-size and word-count limits, and how to use CSS to mimic common image effects. GG