Mar 31, 2008

Here’s an interesting little device showing some promise for younger interwebbers.
It seems more like a prototype, proof-of-concept than anything else as it would only have made sense to make it wireless.
It’s apparently a flash-based dev platform running on Linux. So, development should be easy enough.
Chumby
Mar 20, 2008
Okay. So, I’ve always been a big believer in RSS News Feeds, but there are so many good feeds out there, how do you stay on top of them? It’s simple: YOU DON’T. But this little bubble on NetNewsWire’s dock icon made me feel like I always had to catch up!
Continue reading Mac OS X NetNewsWire Tip: No More Thousands of Posts to Read
Mar 1, 2008
Always cool when you’re clipping along on something and by complete mistake you discover a great trick. I’m pretty sure most OSes have a simple text editor. Mac OS X’s is called TextEdit. Frankly, I use it for just about every lightweight text-editing because it is so versatile. Last night on my commute home, I was pondering and prioritizing life as I usually do about this time of year â?? something ’bout the upcoming spring me thinks. Well, we hit a bump in the road and my finger nailed ESC and POOF! up comes an autocomplete dialog. Thought that was some pretty awesome usability.

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!Pressing ESC in TextEdit reveals an auto-complete
Tags: autocomplete, TextEdit, trick
Jul 18, 2007
Perusing around today, I was reminded of this interesting little company that is in the business of making some true innovations with wireless Internet technologies. They’re not exactly a new company, but they are making some news with their platform.
Continue reading True Innovations in {human} Experience
Jul 17, 2007
If you’re running Windows in a Parallels environment on an Intel Macintosh, you may have found that the shift-constrain-copy keyboard shortcut no longer works. Ctrl-drag-copy still works, but the shift-constrain no longer works. I’ve laid out how to change the keyboard configuration in Parallels to remedy this.
Continue reading Getting your “ctrl-shift-constrain copy” Shortcut Back in Parallels