DomainBrain is a handy tool for Mac OS X that helps webmasters and web designers keep track of server and login information for websites they maintain. I work on quite a few websites for myself and others, and keeping track of URLs, usernames and passwords, and database configuration info for those sites has always been a bit of a pain. DomainBrain is designed to keep all that info in one place with a simple, straightforward interface.

DomainBrain is free for use with four domains or fewer. To keep track of info for more than four domains, you can purchase a license for $14. Visit the DomainBrain homepage to get more info and to download and try DomainBrain. Take it for a spin and let me know what you think.

(Crossposted at One-Button Mouse)

Update: Looks like everything went ok with moving files and data. Now to update DNS entries…

So this week I relaunched the site with a complete redesign. The focus now will hopefully be geared towards exhibiting more of my illustration work and sketches, though there are still areas for icon and desktop picture downloads. And of course, a blog on the home page, which should focus on art, design, the Mac, and other related things. Head on over and take a look if you’re so inclined.

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I plan on getting back into posting over the next week or two. In the meantime, you can check out some of my vacation photos – I’ve posted a few on Flickr, and there will be more to come as I continue to sort through them.

As a side note, my condolences go out to the victims and survivors of the News and Record layoffs – that was some surprising news to return to, though I expect folks there were more taken aback by it than I was. Having twice been on the receiving end of layoffs, I certainly know how it feels.

(Via Ed Brayton)

Shawn Hornbeck’s disappearance had a happy ending when police found him alive earlier this month. The news took many people by surprise, most likely including psychic Sylvia Browne, who had earlier told Shawn’s parents that he was dead:

His parents were beyond desperate when they went on Montel Williams’ syndicated television program, where they were brought together with renowned psychic Sylvia Browne … Browne was telling his parents the worst possible news — that Shawn was dead, and that his body was in a rocky, forested area within 20 miles of their home. For the next three weeks, the search reportedly focused on finding Shawn’s body in that prescribed area.

Of course, they failed to find the body because last week — four years after he went missing — Shawn Hornbeck turned up very much alive.

It’s despicable that someone would pretend to have knowledge of a child’s fate and lead his parents – and the police – astray like this.

Browne was totally wrong, not just about Shawn’s fate, but about his abductor as well. According to James Randi:

But there was more specific drivel from Browne, She said that Shawn had been taken by a “dark-skinned man, he wasn’t black – more like Hispanic.” She said the kidnaper had long, black hair worn in dreadlocks and was “really tall.” He was driving an older model blue sedan, she said, a car with fins like in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s Chevrolets. All of this drivel was wrong, from the description of the man – he is not Hispanic nor dark-skinned, he’s Caucasian, he’s heavy and not tall – and his car was quite the opposite of Browne’s invented notions: it was a white pickup truck.

Maybe it’s time to have criminal penalties for psychics who provide police with false information?

The perpetual sunshine in most of the extreme north and south means plenty of light for energy-producing solar panels; the perpetual darkness in the shadowed polar regions means a steady supply of water ice, which can be harvested for consumption …

I for one agree that harvesting water ice for consumption is a great idea.