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150 Microlog entries tagged with ‘technobabble’
Toward Better Master Passwords
Very good advice here, specifically for users of 1Password but in general too. Permalink ·
Formula 1 user interfaces
Some hot car/tech pr0n, in anticipation of the new F1 season starting this weekend [c/o Daring Fireball]. Permalink ·
The iPod Death Clock
According to this, mine’s got less than a year left before it buys the farm. That’s not good. Permalink ·
CSS resources in one handy hyperlinked PDF file
Does exactly what it says on the tin. Permalink ·
iScroll2: Two-finger scrolling for pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks
Might try this instead of SideTrack. Permalink ·
Most useful CSS related resources?
Filing this for future reference. Permalink ·
Smultron: An open-source text editor written in Cocoa for Mac OS X
Might give this a try. Permalink ·
PDFLab
For splitting, combining and generally tinkering with PDF documents. It’s not very elegant but it works [c/o paulhammond.org]. Permalink ·
Hacking the user interface through tags
“Tagging isn’t just metadata; it’s metadata you can use.” Makes me wonder if I’ve been using my tags right; rather than a form of internal navigation, they point outwards, to other blog posts, to give some context to my own. Permalink ·
4096 Color Wheel
Unbelievably cool interactive colour picker [c/o del.icio.us/barryf]. Permalink ·
Paparazzi!
An OS X utility for capturing full-length screenshots of web pages. Very handy indeed. Permalink ·
Send me an Odeo
Just a little social experiment… I’m not fishing for compliments, I swear. Permalink ·
DocuWiki
Looks interesting; might be a better fit for my WikiThesis. Permalink ·
Phil Gyford’s Timeline
Now this is what a styled table is supposed to look like! Impressive information design too. Permalink ·
Today is CSS Naked Day
In case you were wondering where the design went. Permalink ·
Podcasts from SXSW Interactive 2006
If you couldn’t make it to Austin for the annual geek-out… Permalink ·
First look at the Nintendo DS Lite
OMG!! I want one!! Permalink ·
Bring me your AIBOne
This article was all it took for me to dream of having my own AIBO. Now if only they were Mac compatible, like the new Lego Mindstorms… Permalink ·
Ambient Findability: Talking with Peter Morville
The more information we have to deal with — and believe me, the volume is growing at a near-exponential rate — the more necessary it will be for this information to be ‘stored’, tagged and thereafter located. And that’s even just thinking of sources of news. I’m looking forward to reading Morville’s book sometime this year for his ideas and theories on the subject. Permalink ·
Edited transcript of Newsnight interview with Tim Berners-Lee from last summer
I lost a lot of respect for Mark Lawson after seeing the broadcast of this. I mean, if Gutenberg were alive today should he have sleepless nights over the printing of Playboy or Mein Kampf or whatever? Lazy, lazy thinking. Permalink ·
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