There have been lots of hubbub going on around Panic‘s new web development tool, Coda, and with good reason. Coda’s approach to web development quickly divides folks into two camps: those that love it and those that don’t. Of course, now that I’ve said that I’m going to try to place myself in the middle.…
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Twitterrific 2 is a fantastic upgrade to Twitterrific. If you haven’t already, grab the public beta (I’m alexkingorg on Twitter). Here are the settings I use1: And here is the result: The “expand when focused” list is a brilliant interface for Twitter updates, I’m encouraging Kevin to adopt it for Tiny Twitter. Make sure to…
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At the Denver Tech Meetup a while back, I discovered I was in the extreme minority in my browser usage style. My browser tabs are almost completely transient to me. I don’t keep pages open to read for longer than an hour or so, or keep a tab open to a webmail client or feed…
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Even though Camino is doing very well, I finally decided to switch to Firefox in order to use the PwdHash extension (as previously discussed). I’m not loading up on too many plugins though, just PwdHash and Translator which tempted me before (I use Firebug and Web Developer in my development profile). I’ve created a main…
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I’m looking for a SuperDuper! for Windows. There has to be one out there, right? A couple of searches have gotten me nothing conclusive. Features I’d like, in order: Incremental backups Full, bootable disk image Schedule-able Doesn’t break the bank. This thread in the SuperDuper! forums has some pointers to possible solutions with SyncBackSE looking…
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Every so often, a Firefox plugin looks so nice and shiny to me that I consider switching from Camino to Firefox as my primary browser. For the last couple of weeks, the password hashing plugins have had my eye: Password Hasher SecurePassword Generator Magic Password Generator PasswordMaker Password Composer And the one I’d actually be…
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I’ve been subscribed to the Spanning Sync blog for a little while now, monitoring the progress they are making in their iCal to Google Calendar sync solution. Yesterday they released their first public beta – then quickly had to shut it down again. Frankly, I don’t understand why they choose to implement this as a…
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I don’t know how I missed upgrading to the latest Firebug for so long, but I’m kicking my own arse for not getting on it sooner. Scott: I hope you are using FireBug by now. This thing rocks Alex: been using it for a few years Scott: the newest version is awesome with debugging and…
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When I was using FeedLounge for my feed reading, I used NetNewsWire to handle a set of private feeds (some of my own data stats, local feeds from my machine, etc.). When I left FeedLounge, I went back to NetNewsWire as my primary feed reader, using the syncing feature1 which connects to the NewsGator servers…
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I used Safari as my primary browser for a little over a week. Disclaimer: I was not a fan of Safari before this and have used Chimera/Camino as my primary browser for several years. This post has my notes from the experience. The transition to Safari was pretty easy. LaunchBar already indexes my bookmarks, so…
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I’m only aware of 3 Flickr upload tools for the Mac: Flickr Uploadr JUploadr 1001 I’m trying to upload ~18GB of photos. Flickr Uploadr will only accept single groups of files for upload, not folders of files. Same with 1001. This is a problem. JUploadr will accept folders, but keeps crashing. All of these apps…
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Erik is challenging me to give Safari another chance, I’m going to take him up on it. I’m setting Safari as my default browser1 for the rest of the year, and I’ll try to keep some notes on the experience. I’ve actually never used Safari for long as my main browser before. [back]
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Back in January of 2005 I asked for Windows Explorer replacement recommendations. A number of people stopped by and shared a long list of recommendations, however none of them came close to being acceptable to me. I was contacted back in June 2006 by Jim Kueneman, a delphi component developer who was interested in piecing…
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I’m going to have to send in my MacBook for service due to the random shutdown bug1. Luckily, I still have my old PowerBook to use while it’s in for service. Unluckily, I’d wiped it clean to get it ready to sell a while back so I need to set it up as a development…
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I’m trying to experience more OpenID stuff since I really like everything I’ve heard about it. To this end I recently signed up for a TypeKey account; to see what it’s like firsthand. Unfortunately, my first experience was less than stellar. I started off here: and clicked the TypeKey link. That link took me to…