11 Jun 2009

Why Toodledo’s Downtime Isn’t Bothering Me

Today, Toodledo.com, my to-do list service, has become Toodledon’t .com. I got a hint of trouble when my normal overnight email of my task “hotlist” wasn’t waiting in my Inbox this morning, and a quick visit to Toodledo’s site confirmed that there was indeed a problem. Instead of the normal, pleasant Toodledo interface, there was […]

31 May 2009

The Finder, the mini-Finder, and Cool Interactions

Lukas Mathis recently gave a lovely detailed analysis on his blog about how the Finder — and various other OS’s file managers — interact with applications when it comes to opening, saving and creating new files. This made me want to mention a couple of very nice interactions that the Finder has with applications at the kind of “should this […]

14 Apr 2009

IE8, Crashes, Tab Recovery, and the Delicious Toolbar

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Just a quick note for anyone having stability problems with Internet Explorer 8. IE8 was giving me all sorts of gyp. It kept on “recovering” tabs, crashing, disappearing, and generally behaving oddly. All I’d have to do was click on a couple of things in some websites and I could crash it every time. The […]

11 Apr 2009

Tweetpad

I introduce the tweetpad, a paper-based Twitter interface, for those of us who occasionally take a break from technology, but who still want to record 140-character fragments of their day. Features: Pocket size 140 characters, with emergency overflow line No batteries required Mac‑, Windows- and Linux-compatible Helvetica Neue Soon to be available in a Java version, […]

5 Apr 2009

Remote from Reality

This is what DVD player remote controls are like in reality, and what I think they should actually be like. Credits: Most of the work for this was done in Lineform, but I grabbed it into the Gimp to bump-map the buttons into a 3D look at the end. Remote From Reality by Matt Gibson is licensed […]