Necessity is the mother of invention, and that’s especially true for software.
For a long time, I’ve wanted to display my lifestream as a single page (and on my own domain) in a way I could customize to match my own aesthetics. I tried Sweetcron, Kakuteru, and a few custom scripts for pulling data from Friendfeed. [...]
Categories: software
Tagged: lifestream, wordpress, wp-lifestream-plugin
There has been a lot of musings in the wake of Apple’s iPad announcement. The conversation below took place in 2006. It would be interesting to hear a rehashed version given the state of the industry today, but I thought I’d refresh my memory by rereading.
Mark Pilgrim announcement to switch away from OSX:
In [...]
From Adam Pash from Lifehacker:
“To say that ‘either a device is user friendly or it’s open’ is a false dichotomy.”
From Mark Pilgrim’s post:
Now, I am aware that you will be able to develop your own programs for the iPad, the same way you can develop for the iPhone today. Anyone can develop! All you need [...]
Categories: computers
While there are a few fledgling Chrome extensions that add the standard Delicious buttons to the user interface. However, that’s not what I really need. I need the Delicious toolbar that Firefox’s plugin has so I can pull up my bookmarks with my favorite tags into the toolbar. As a stop gap, [...]
Categories: software
So I decided to try to create a graph that showed the flows of the various social networking sites that I use frequently. Lifestream Aggregator in this case refers to three things: Friendfeed, Lifestream Plugin for Wordpress (here) and Sweetcron (www.markphilpot.net).
Categories: computers, technology
Tagged: graphviz, lifestream
This guy just saved my sanity! If you are running Eclipse 3.5 and are noticing “funny” behavior (buttons not working, certain fields not appearing), then follow these instructions.
It looks like Eclipse is doing some nasty stuff advanced hacking in SWT on GTK. This bug is fixed in 3.6M2 but you can work around the [...]
Categories: linux, programming
My first iPhone web application: iSuperGP. If you use supergenpass.com for your password management, iSuperGP helps you use it on your iPhone. Using HTML5 local storage, you can save your sites locally so you don’t have to retype them every time in the SGP mobile version. The application is fully offline enabled, so you [...]
Categories: programming, software
Tagged: development, iPhone, isupergp, webapp