February 2010
5 posts
The iPad
Just finished watching the iPad keynote. I think Apple has just told every user interface designer out there that they need to turn up their game.
Without having a keyboard on screen at all times, it becomes increasingly difficult to show affordances on screen. The iWork apps show a ton of hidden stuff that’s not necessarily intuitive, but looks and works great once discovered.
These...
January 2010
13 posts
Wake on Lan from a PHP Script
So in the quest of being energy efficient but still being able to access my crap when not at the office, I came across this neat piece of code.
With a little tweaking, I can create a drop-down list of all the Macs in the office and choose to wake them up accordingly!
NOTE: Macs (and most other computers) listen for the “Magic Packet” on UDP port 9. I would suggest opening a random...
Tynt - Smart Copy/Paste on your website →
This is clever! A script that appends a link to your site on everything you copy. So, for example, if you were to highlight and copy this paragraph, when you paste it, it will have a link appended something like this:
Read more at fholgado.com…
Coda - Bookmarks within your code →
I always found the Code Navigator in Coda somewhat useless… but this actually might make it a bit more worthwile!
Auto Repair and Maintenance Estimates | Auto Shop... →
Cool service! I thought today that something like this must exist either as a Web Service or software.
On User Insight, Ethnography, and Needfinding
tlow:
Yesterday I came across this Henry Ford quote: “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.” I liked the quote, and posted it to my twitter account. One of the responses really intrigued me, and surprisingly it was from someone I’d met at the d.school, a very talented masters CS student. He said, “going against design thinking huh!”. I think this quote is...
Remove Deleted or Missing files from SVN
Miraculous.
svn status | grep ‘\!’ | awk ‘{print $2;}’ | xargs svn rm
Source.
