Category Archives: Software
In an age of vast computer memory (well, relatively speaking), it’s pretty arbitrary at this point that our computers have a clipboard that only “holds” one item at a time. Anyone else been burned by accidentally copying over something you were “saving” in the clipboard? Or how many times have you opened a text editor just [...]
Cooper Journal: One free interaction I noticed two friends who use their mouse to repeatedly select and deselect text in web browsers as they read pages online. This is absolutely crazymaking for onlookers, but really satisfying for them. De-Re-Selecting from Chris No on Vimeo. I do this all the time (my favorite way is to triple-click [...]
Here’s a current screenshot of my computer. Ultimately, both the panel and Do remain off-screen, so I have a full screen free of distractions when I’m working on something. Collapsing my panel into just the upper-left corner was simple, but a few GConf tweaks made it hide more and faster: /apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen0/auto_hide_size 0 (Makes it hide [...]
So I’m a big fan of Ubiquity. Easily one of my favorite Firefox extensions. If you’ve not heard of it, it’s basically a set of commands exposed in Firefox, akin to Quicksilver/GNOME Do/Launchy but, you know, for web stuff. One of my favorite commands that I’ve found is simply called Search, courtesy of Blair McBride. It [...]
Daring Fireball Linked List: Google’s Open Source Patches to Wine This idea deserves a full essay, but for now, consider: In the same way that Apple took Mac OS X and Cocoa and shrunk them to serve as a handheld device OS, I think Google could take Android and grow it to serve as a PC [...]
Participating on a blog is infinitely more worthwhile if you’re able to find out about new comments to any interesting posts. To that end, here is my favorite tip for keeping up on comments: Co.mments.com, a great site to subscribe to comments on any blog. You simply track a page and it will update you via [...]
I was very pleased to find out today that the WordPress OpenID plugin was updated. Among some general fixes, the newest version supports acting as an OpenID provider. In other words, I can use my “andrewski.net” domain to sign in to any OpenID-enabled websites, of which there are plenty. I can then manage my authentications [...]
They say hindsight is 20/20, and often it’s vindicating. I haven’t looked back since I switched from Tumblr to WordPress. Hosting my own blog is much more satisfying and I have much more control and flexibility over my content and its appearance. It’s reassuring to see that others have found the same. So I realized [...]
T-Rex likes cupcakes ...