My ASUS eee pad Transformer Prime finally arrived, and wow, am I ever disappointed. Not in the hardware mind you, the device itself is absolutely gorgeous. My disappointment is in Android. Prior to the TFP, the only Android device I’ve owned is my Kindle Fire. Granted, I’ve played with plenty of my friend’s Android devices, […]
Read MoreASUS eee pad Transformer Prime 0
Seeing as I seem to perpetually be evolving my gear, I figured I’d give this tablet a go as my primary machine for a while. Unfortunately, they’re so hard to come by that only my keyboard dock has managed to arrive so far, but once the tablet itself actually shows up and I’ve had a […]
Read MoreFire it up, Kindle that is… 0
My Kindle Fire arrived yesterday afternoon, and so far, it’s exactly what I was hoping for. Why did I sell my iPad 2 ? I sold my iPad 2 because: it was too big, the screen resolution is crappy, and I didn’t and wouldn’t use it to create content of any kind, ever. After trying […]
Read MoreNotational Velocity… kicks ass! 0
I’ve been using my own auto-hide drawer note thingies for years, and while they never evolved to what I’d envisioned, I never came across something that worked better for me. Until now. I recently came across Notational Velocity, and ever since it has displaced my own jpeekaboo app Syncs via DropBox, keyboard driven, brilliant! I […]
Read MoreMagic Trackpad ? Indeed… 0
One of my earlier posts was about modifying an MBP trackpad for use on the desktop, and despite going to all the trouble of creating a DIY trackpad from an MBP case top, I have to say I’m very pleased with Apple’s recent Magic Trackpad. Everything about the device is perfect for me. I’m using […]
Read MoreGoogle Voice on iPhone :( 0
Like a few others, I am disappointed by Apple’s decision to prevent Google Voice for iPhone. I am not as upset as some, but do think the situation is unfortunate. The startup I worked for a few years ago was doing something very similar to Google Voice, called VerbalOneNumber, which wasn’t as successful as GrandCentral […]
Read Morejpeekaboo updated, new features added 0
Something finally motivated me enough to make some changes to jpeekaboo. Time does indeed fly, it’s been almost a year since the last release… I put in some infrastructure for settings, and used that to allow the note to be pinned to either the left or right side of the screen. The settings also have […]
Read Morenow that’s a great idea! (data.gov) 0
The government decided to do something useful with a few of its copious data stores, excellent! After perusing data.gov a bit, there are quite a few useful data sources. More importantly, this could be much larger than it currently is, and represents a huge opportunity for so many federal organizations to share their data not […]
Read MoreMapReduce becoming ubiquitous ? => Collaborative Map-Reduce in the Browser 0
As an academic exercise, myself and a colleague at Sun are currently implementing a MapReduce client for iPhone which has a server component, and a number of other clients we’ve written in various programming languages (currently Python, Ruby and Perl). Our hope is to statistically prove iPhone and similar devices can be useful in a […]
Read MoreXCode breakpoint speech synthesis! 0
In mid December I attended iPhone dev camp Colorado, and among many other things, learned about the very cool ability of XCode to speak the value of variables and other items at breakpoints while debugging. XCode uses whatever voice you have configured in OS X to do the synthesis, and spits out not just variable […]
Read MoreChandler 1.0 0
Most folks may not be familiar with the Chandler project, but it has some interesting goals. The project finally hit 1.0 recently, and reached a point that it’s stable enough for serious usage, IMO. I’ve used at various points in the past, and I must say that they’ve done a great job. I’ve been using […]
Read Morejpeekaboo v1 released 0
Alrighty, I finally put the finishing touches on jpeekaboo tonight, enough for others to try it anyhow. v1 is out, and is essentially at the same place as where I had my Stickies fork, only without all the extra unused stuff, and in java! native distros for linux, OS X and Windows are available from […]
Read Morejpeekaboo, java based auto hide drawer note 0
pwsidenote is becoming far more painful than I’d hoped to strip down and end up with what I want. In response, I’m shelving it as is and starting a new project, jpeekaboo. Same goal, auto hide drawer note that can be pinned to any screen edge and sync content offsite. I also need an app […]
Read Morepwsidenote, an auto hide drawer style sticky note application 0
I’m always on the lookout for small apps that help me improve my efficiency. Despite many wanderings into the land of GTD apps, I always come back to a simple plain text scheme, using either post-it like applications, or a simple text editor. On the OS X platform, I use sidenote. On Windows, I use […]
Read MoreHotkey consoles for all 0
I still really like the hotkey triggered drop down console notion. I’ve been a fan ever since finding Visor for OS X. Today, I was wondering if I’d have to come up with my own solution for Windows when I came across an existing way provided by someone else. Granted, it isn’t as friendly as […]
Read MoreAdded FreeMind to SoftwareGoodies 0
Mind maps rock. I’ve found them abundantly useful for thinking through problems, and for mapping out tasks to help plan a project. FreeMind is a Java based mind mapping app which is very useful. There’s a link on the SoftwareGoodies page.
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