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
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
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
Apple recently released Safari 4. Being the model geek, I decided to give it a spin — and I liked what I saw. But here’s the problem: at this point I have a deeply ingrained web browsing workflow. Whether it’s a habit or a plugin, there are certain things that are this point [...]
Categories: software
If you are seeing the following error:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8007000e (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY) [nsIDocShellHistory.useGlobalHistory]” nsresult: “0×8007000e (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/browser.js :: prepareForStartup :: line 764″ data: no]
photo credit: meantux
Symptoms: When you start firefox, it doesn’t take you to your home page. Your home button doesn’t work [...]
viewNode(“0411aaa38a77a”,{width: 550,height: 320 ,config: {autoplay: false}});
It brought Robert Scoble to tears… and I can see why. This is the sort of software Microsoft should be releasing. The seamless integration, very similar to what Google Earth did for looking around our little blue-green planet, makes it that much more accessible. I’ve tried downloading [...]
Categories: science, software, space, technology
Icon design falls into the “hard” category in my book. It really breaks down to a minimal conveyance of an idea that also has to be attractive and fit into the rest of your design. This is a rather good breakdown of the various mistakes you see in various operating systems and applications.
In [...]
Categories: software