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Wonderful video discussion of personal organization methods

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

I recently watched an extremely enjoyable and inspiring presentation at Google by a researcher with University of Washington’s Keeping Found Things Found project. In the presentation, William Jones covers a wide range of organization topics, going beyond the usual folders vs. tags debate to a more comprehensive look at the how’s and the why’s of […]

Free SketchUp now available from Google

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Wow, I just found out about this. SketchUp, a cool 3D sketching and modeling tool “for the rest of us” that I played around with at Macworld this January, was recently bought by Google and is now available for free! (There’s still a Pro version for sale though.) Unfortunately, the Mac version isn’t out yet, […]

Best blog design ever?

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

This has got to be the coolest and most original blog design I have ever seen. Very, very neat.
theocacao.com
P. S. *sigh* …maybe it’s time for some touch-ups on this blog…getting sick of the color scheme already…

Clipboard for the Web

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

You know what? Microsoft is really starting to fire on all cylinders. Maybe buying Groove and getting Ray Ozzie was a bigger event than I realized at the time.
Ray’s come up with one of the most brilliant technologies ever to hit the Web in my opinion: a standardized XML format describing clipboard data formats that […]

Old becomes new: Camino is back!

Friday, February 17th, 2006

After much time of languish and neglect, Camino is back, and back with a vengence. I’m posting this using the new Camino 1.0 browser for Mac OS X, and I’m extremely impressed. It has all the nice Gecko-y rendering power, yet has a simple Safari-like Cocoa interface and nice Cocoa-style widgets for the HTML forms. […]

blummy (blimey! bookmarklets done right!)

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

So I just found out about blummy, and my first thought was “what’s a blummy?” My second thought was that it sounded like blimey.
But blummy is actually very cool. It allows you to click just one button on your bookmarks toolbar and see all of the bookmarklets you like to use appear in […]

Atom Publishing: the Next Big Thing?

Monday, December 12th, 2005

Read this and this, and then come back and tell me this isn’t the next big thing. I think it is. I wasn’t even aware there was a publishing protocol in the works based on Atom until today when a friend forwarded an article that was on eWeek a couple of months ago. After reading […]

Tooltip.js: sweet Web 2.0-style tooltips

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Update: I just fixed a typo in the Tooltip URL. My bad!
Davey Shafik, a well-known PHP coder, has now released some Javascript fun for us Web geeks. It’s called Tooltip.js, and it allows you to create tooltips for various elements on your pages while using all the latest fun Javascript effects that you are used […]

Fun Mac blogging trick: WordPressDash

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

I’m posting this from a very nifty little Mac OS X Dashboard widget called WordPressDash. Just hit F12 (or whatever your Dashboard activation key is), type in some text, and hit PublishPost. I envision myself using this regularly rather than the standard WordPress browser interface, just because I like widgets and it’s easy to get […]