The Wilderness Downtown
Awesome, next level HTML5 power. Music by Arcade Fire.
Adding one capital and one * changes the time to hack a password from 2.4 days to 2.1 centuries.
This is a very cool, fun little app for quickly finding out what time it is around the world. Got some very cool, modern javascript dev… and no wonder. The guy responsible is Thomas Fuchs, who developed the script.aculo.us effects library for Prototype.js.
This makes me giddy with excitement.
DTerm: A command line anywhere and everywhere
Looks cool! Visor is an indispensable part of my Mac OS X development workflow, but I wonder how this will compare. Doubtful it’s as good; as far as I can tell, it doesn’t give you a view on your recent interaction with the system which seems like it’d be less useful. But for short actions… say, an SVN commit, this could be awesome. Another fantastic thing about this is, it is context sensitive. So if you’re in a certain directory, your shell automatically starts in there. Seems like there’s room for both Visor and DTerm.
*Update: It DOES give you your recent interactions/commands… however, you have to navigate step-by-step through your recent history by clicking little arrows. So definitely less useful if you’re getting into a multistep process where you care about seeing the terminal output easily.
*Update #2: Ok so this is definitely a specific use-case. It doesn’t allow you to change directories. So I guess this is only useful for quick actions that need to be performed as you’re mucking around in the finder. Still seems really useful but jury’s out on whether I’ll use it every day the way I use Visor.
Keyboard Test
This guy made an “illustration” of the apple keyboard in pure CSS. Best viewed in webkit browsers.
Ajaxian » amelie() – a devious plan to get rid of IE6
I’ll bring pitchforks and torches. Let’s do this.
Hey, I’m all for resorting to sabotage at this point.
Strictly for the mega nerds: Just saw this error in Firebug while loading a Facebook page.
This little app is so cool. I use quick screenshot uploaders all the time in my line of work, but this thing does that and more: screenshot uploading happens automatically, but you can select any file on your system and do a quick keystroke to upload. Once uploaded, the app gives you a short URL on your clipboard for pasting into your IM client or whatever. So fast and easy.
Hats off to TinyGrab which does screenshots really well (including the option to upload to your own server) and has served me very well, but I’ll probably be switching to CloudApp now just for the ability to do any file.
Jolicloud is a really interesting project that just came out in public beta (er… “pre-beta”? I’m not sure what the deal is with that.) It’s a streamlined OS based entirely around cloud services and intended for netbooks. The UI is designed with these parameters in mind. Basically it’s really simple to use and gets you to your gmail, facebook, twitter, audio/video streams, pandora, etc, quickly and easily.
I just installed it on my beleaguered old Asus eeePC 701 (ie the 4G), and even on this very limited hardware and small screen resolution, it’s running great, and so far has been problem-free.
Of equal importance is the fact that the installation process was a total breeze. I’ve gone through the sheer hell of putting ubuntu on this thing before and so was wary to try anything new but this was a very easy experience. You create a USB booter on your main computer (in my case mac) and just boot right into the almost automated install process. Very smooth, and of critical importance for the Jolicloud team to get right. Great job guys.
If you’ve got a netbook or other secondary portable computer sitting around, I’d recommend giving this thing a shot, I think it’s going to be fun to use for the purpose it was intended for… easy cloud-based computing and other computing that doesn’t require a whole lot of processing power.
There’s a list of compatible devices here, though I wonder if it’s entirely complete, seems like you should be able to install this on a lot of hardware. Maybe it’s a driver issue.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention one of the biggest advantages of Jolicloud: it’s FREE.
How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell - The Oatmeal
Sad but so often true. Right down to the comic sans. Thanks Halon for the link.
Disappearing local datastore on Django app engine
This frustrated me so I’m posting this quick note in case it helps someone else sometime. Apparently Google App Engine’s local server will occasionally just delete your local datastore for no reason. Just disappeared into thin air. Suggestion: if you use the Google App Engine launcher, when you launch the server the console output will print the location of your local datastore. I’d back that thing up just in case.
Of course there’s also GAEBAR, which is great, but it’s a little hacky and a lot more hassle. If you simply would like to make a backup of your local datastore, you can just do a quick cp of the file.
Percussion Lab - Live & DJ Sets from Around the World
Lots of great, free, downloadable sets here for the IDM enthusiast. Great job Praveen Sharma!
