February 2010
7 posts
“There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid...”
– Hermann Hesse (via hndrk)
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
– Goethe (via minimalmac)
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own...”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (via davidkaneda)
stevenf:
Here’s a quick PHP script called yconvert that takes a path to a folder full of Serial Number or Password records exported from Yojimbo and spits them back out in CSV format.
yconvert.php
Sample usage:
./yconvert.php exportfolder > output.csv
(Don’t forget to chmod +x yconvert.php first.)
CSV is much more useful for getting the data into some other app. For example, the...
“No, my issue merely lies somewhere on the fringe of one of the discussion points...”
– The Log: The App Store Nightmare Hasn’t Gone Away
“No, Apple didn’t license iBooks from me. They just copied me.”
– Wil Shipley, creator of Delicious Library (via davidkaneda)
December 2009
4 posts
10 Things You Must Do With Your New Mac [Apple] →
(via chartier)
DashNote
chrisbowler:
A gorgeous new Dashboard widget for Simplenote. Fits well with the app.
Loginox →
shimoda:
The Simple Way To Change Your Login Background Image.
November 2009
8 posts
Consistency →
“Even so, the disadvantages of Google’s scrollbar are obvious. The main cause of...”
– Google Wave’s Scrollbars
mondays top 5 - hidden preferences →
minimalmac:
Nice roundup of useful “defaults write” terminal commands that allow for some very useful options in Mac OS X. I have enabled all of these.
The Document Escalation Path
minimalmac:
It was not until recently that I realized something about my workflow. Please forgive me if this is all “Big Duh!” to you. I have a document escalation path. – a definitive point of creation for the most basic needs and a progression of steps for when the item outgrows those needs. My flow generally goes something like this (links to other posts here where appropriate):
TextEdit –...
About RSS, Twitter RSS, and 'the personal touch'
goobimama:
Turns out some people get real annoyed when when websites push twitter feeds that serve the sole purpose of publishing their RSS feeds. On the surface it seems like they’re right, and that publishing an RSS feed to twitter is stupid and arrogant. But…
I don’t use RSS. I’ve given up on it. Every client has its faults, and I can almost never quite get a feel for content looking through...
How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insiders... →
goobimama:
Dennis Yu, veteran spammer, writes a guest article for TechCrunch:
Did you know how Mark Zuckerberg supported Facebookin the early days, before he got venture funding? Casino ads. And how about those advertisers who were making over $100,000 a day selling Acai Berry and other weight loss products – they are friends of mine, pioneers of new advertising channels. You see those ads...
October 2009
84 posts
The Rise & Fall of The Nintendo Wii →
marco:
When we first got the Wii a couple of years ago, it was a universal hit at Arc90. The bowling and golf games in the Wii sports package were just plain fun.
Fast forward about six months from the time we got the Wii and it’s a completely different story. It was hardly being used. Fast forward two years to today and I can confidently share that it probably hasn’t been turned on in over a...
“The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood by companies...”
– Jan. 1984: How critics reviewed the Mac - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Brainstorm Tech
“You know who thinks the iPhone 3GS stinks? Steve Jobs. No one is working harder...”
– John Gruber
Pound the Quality →
But my interest remains, as ever, in the quality of the apps, not the quantity. Let’s say that when the dust starts to settle in this market, Android winds up with far fewer total apps than iPhone OS, but they’re of generally higher quality. That would make Android the Mac to the iPhone’s Windows. I would switch to that platform. (Feel free to substitute WebOS for Android in the above...
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
“A modern paradox is that it’s simpler to create complex interfaces because it’s...”
QuickLook windows in Expose
mattrajca:
Quick Snow Leopard Tip: To enlarge a window to its original size in Expose, hover your mouse over it and press the spacebar.
You can then use the up and down arrow keys to switch between windows.
"Don't Cry For Me, Cupertino" →
iPhone Preferences and Settings.app →
In-app settings, no doubt.
Tweetie for Mac has some great keyboard shortcuts
finermac:
Tweetie for Mac lets you switch between the Timeline, Replies, Direct Messages, and Search panels of your account with Command-1, -2, -3, and -4, relatively speaking.
If you use more than one Twitter account in Tweetie, you can switch between them by using Command-Shift-Up/Down arrows. This means you can switch between any account, and any panel under each account, without touching...
Frequendly Used Keyboard Shortcuts From My Day – ... →
minimalmac:
What I love about this is that, not only does Shawn provide the shortcuts and the apps he uses, he also has included links to the scripts he is using for ultimate keyboard productive-fu.
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
– Steve Jobs (via minimalmac)
How To Become A Link-Spewing Maniac and Still Have... →
Very interesting read.
“It is in this regard that software developers are not unlike writers. But...”
– http://shawnblanc.net/2009/10/tweetie-20/
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really...”
– Steve Jobs (via minimalmac)
“Web designers want more options, they want more fonts.”
– Web fonts. Where are we? Will web fonts ever be a reality?
Simplenote restyled →
minimalmac:
A beautiful userscript for those of us who run the Simplenote web app in Fluid.