I’m very proud to announce the launch of FavePersonal; a WordPress theme designed for personal websites. I have been using (and building and…
Fellow Colorado web geeks, I made you a t-shirt. The code that comprises the white stripe is a full, working HTML page with canvas code that draws…
It’s been very interesting to me to see how some folks are re-evaluating their work/life balance in the wake of reading Isaacson’s Steve…
I guess this is a pet peeve of mine, but why don’t any of the major browsers open a requested URL in the frontmost tab if that tab is empty (about:blank)? Camino got this right years ago, but Firefox, Safari and Chrome still open up a new tab next to the empty one. I can’t…
Corey mentioned it on Twitter a few weeks back: @alexkingorg it’s the whole concept of new vs unread. I knew to open mail for new mail. Unread is a meaningless number. BlackBerry, Android and Palm all have a notification system that allows the user to know when new email has arrived. The notification remains present…
My foray into the Android world has sent me searching for the best available apps for my various needs. Here is the set I’m currently using along with some general thoughts: Email: K-9 mail. The built-in IMAP client on the Droid 2 is fundamentally broken. It fails to move and delete messages on the server.…
I’ve finished researching the changes needed to integrate OAuth into Twitter Tools. The code changes are pretty straightforward and there is plenty of prior art and examples out there to reference. The technical implementation isn’t a problem. My concern is with the user experience of the initial install and set-up of the plugin. This would…
One of the things I’ve enjoyed as the team has grown at Crowd Favorite is seeing how different developers utilize different tools to accomplish similar things. I’m an old-school BBEdit user but just about everyone else on the team is a TextMate enthusiast. I have favorable impressions of TextMate and own a license for it,…
Desired feature for Adium: the ability to save the currently composed text as a draft so that you can reply to the latest incoming msg and then come back to what you were typing afterward. My current copy-paste solution gets too complicated.
The criticism of the iPad before its release was basically: what do I need it for? Having used it for a little while, I’m honestly not sure… Don’t get me wrong, I like my iPad, but I haven’t seen the (or even a) killer app for the iPad yet. I’m generally using my iPad for…
I’m a fan of Brent’s and I’ve been using NetNewsWire as for years. I use it on the Mac, iPhone (and iPod touch) and iPad. It’s treated me very well. There’s just one thing that bugs me about the iPhone/iPad version – there isn’t a “mark unread” button. So I decided to do a little…
Wow, I need to remember never to come back here again. I know I’ve had this reaction more than once when landing on a site. Some web sites behave badly, it’s annoying. Eric‘s recent tweet reminded me of a conversation Shawn and I had a few months back. The idea is to create a browser…
I updated my PwdHash page to tweak the CSS for mobile (webkit) browsers. It’s not quite a replacement for a native app on a mobile device, but it’s a lot better than the desktop version was. Feel free to use it if you like.
I’d love to have a keyboard shortcut that would set focus on the first visible field. Y’know, for web apps/sites that don’t set focus properly when the page loads. My simple jQuery snippet works well for this – how easy would it be to turn that into Chrome and Firefox extensions? Little project for someone?
I’m trying out Chromium (Mac) as my primary browser for a while. I’d been holding out for these things: Pukka support – the ability to launch an application from a bookmarklet. FlashBlock support – can’t imagine browsing without it anymore. PwdHash support Accesskey support Three out of four is close enough – I’ll keep composing…
The iPhone App Store has a lot of (well documented) problems, but on the flip side it has a very simple model that works like you expect it to. The BlackBerry App World is trying to provide a similar service for BlackBerry users, however BlackBerry developers are also able to distribute and/or sell their apps…
Shawn helpfully pointed out that I could save a few bucks buy purchasing my MobileMe subscription through Amazon instead of directly from Apple. The only complication with this is that I got the info on Monday and my free trial was expiring on Tuesday. If I bought MobileMe from Amazon on Monday, I wouldn’t receive…
Here I am about to pay $100/year for contact sync. I tried hard to avoid this, having tried pretty much every other solution out there, but none of them worked properly across several Macs plus a BlackBerry. In the end I just need contact sync that works, and so far MobileMe is the only one…
I’ve started building a list of applications that fill me with joy. LaunchBar – can’t imagine life without it. xScope – I don’t even use it that much, but when I do… so awesome. Pukka – I’ve been using Delicious as a central data store more of late. These aren’t all “must-have” apps, nor are…
Over the last five years I’ve heavily used MailTemplate and shadowClipboard. Both are great utilities, and neither works right on Snow Leopard (and no upgrades in sight). As a result, I’ve found workarounds. Rather than move to different utilities for these features, I’ve tried to simplify. I’m already hopelessly dependent on LaunchBar, so coming up…
Tweetie 2 has hit the twittersphere to universal praise and rejoicing. I have to admit it was one of the first app upgrades I’ve been excited to install in a while. After playing with it for a little while, I can say that it’s a great upgrade, more polished, lots of great new features that…
As I briefly noted on Twitter, I will typically install everything fresh when setting up a new Mac. There are a variety of reasons why I think this is a good idea, but here is one you might not always think of. When you do a fresh install of applications that you use frequently, you…
So far my Address Book sync via Dropbox solution is working well. The only issue I’ve seen so far is having to restart Mail.app to get names and addresses properly paired up from time to time. If you see a weird name/email address combination in Mail.app, a quit and restart of Mail.app should fix it.
I upgraded my work machine to Snow Leopard. I had to jump through some minor hoops to get my dev environment back up and running again, and I’m also finding myself missing two utilities that haven’t been updated yet: iStat Menus and MailTemplate. I was thrilled that updates for MsgFiler, SuperDuper, Pukka and PathFinder were…
I use PwdHash for my passwords – if you aren’t using something like this, you probably should be. I’m sure there will be an update to the PwdHash plugin to make it officially compatible with Firefox 3.5, but until then here are steps to use it on a Mac: Upgrade to Firefox 3.5. Quit Firefox…
Thanks to Adam Tow, I’ve got a newly updated version of SVN Zapper available. This version should be nicely compatible with Mac OS X 10.5.x.
You may have noticed ShareThis loading a lot faster these days. The team has made some great changes under the hood that have enabled better performance and a much snappier response. The widget now pops up immediately, just like ShareThis Classic. I’ve been beta testing the new performance features here for a little while and…
Ok, maybe less “outrage” and more “mild annoyance”. After playing with the iPhone a bit I realized that my BlackBerry would be a bit more useful if I had some apps on it for various one-off features. For example, I thought it would be handy to have a weather app instead of loading up a…