Founders Ron Zettlemoyer and Cliff Jurkiewicz have been invited to speak at the Semantic Tech & Business Conference in San Francisco this June. We'll be presenting the following topic:

Building a Semantic Enterprise
Content Management System from Scratch



Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA
June 6 at 2:30PM PST

Detail on our program is available on the SemTech site. Fynydd will have a booth presence throughout the conference, which runs from June 3-7. See you there!

If you'd like more information, or to receive a copy of our presentations via e-mail, visit our SemTech feature page.

It's 1pm on a Friday afternoon and your creativity is drained from doing killer design work all week. You'd just like a little spark of inspiration to get you going so you can do an awesome job on that last project before 5 o'clock hits.

There are a handful of websites that I like to visit when I'm either having designer's block; want to be inspired; or just want to keep tabs on the latest tricks and trends in the design world.

Here are my Top 5 go-to sites:

1. Creattica - http://creattica.com

Creattica allows designers to upload images of their latest design work. Visitors of the site vote for their favorite designs and, as you would expect, the designs that get a lot of "Favorite" votes rise to the top. The gallery categories have many design industries covered, so no matter what field you're in, you're bound to be inspired by the work uploaded by talented artists all over the world. Creattica also offers a lot of "Freebies," such as Wordpress themes; Photoshop brushes; Icons; Fonts; Wallpapers; Textures; and much more.

I've been battling with intermittent signal problems in my house for some time. My have an Apple Time Capsule base station, which supports dual band 802.11 g/n on 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands. And my iPad and Macbook Air both support 802.11n on both bands. My iPhone only supports the 2.4Ghz band, as I recently discovered.

At the other end of the house, opposite the base station, is my bedroom, where the WiFi issues occur. Initially, I added a WiFi extender, in the form of an Apple Airport Express. I've tried two models, and both gave me great signal strength, but the connectivity would intermittently stop (as it did without the extender), sometimes requiring a restart of the extender. I eventually got rid of the extender, and decided to research a different solution.

So many people are unaware of this shortcut that I thought I'd put it into a blog post for posterity.

If you've ever had to edit a hidden system file in OS X, like the hosts file (for adding custom domain names to your local machine), it's easy to find and open these files from any application. When you invoke the Open File menu option, simply press SHIFT+COMMAND+. (that's  period) to toggle whether or not hidden files and folders can be seen.

The following table gives the character entity reference, decimal character reference, and hexadecimal character reference for symbols and Greek letters, as well as the rendering of each in your browser. Glyphs of the characters are available at the Unicode Consortium.