“You mean you can't take less; it's very easy to take more than nothing.”
It seems that Google really are making a browser, and it looks pretty darn good. It was announced unofficially on Tuesday via a comic sent out to several people and officially confirmed today. And what was the response? Opera does that already! Those on the bleeding edge are used to pointing out that not only [...]
Software has always had dependencies, things that are beyond the softwares control but needed for it to work properly. With the web these dependencies are increasing with mashups and rich clients for Internet services. If you have dependencies on other services one thing you’d better keep in mind is that these services may fail, and [...]
It's always interesting to look at the way in which people overcome the problem of navigating the web. The problem being that nowadays content is full of sidelines and links. As you're reading your favourite blog (mine, surely ) they might link to another post, such as this one about The Problem With Tabbed Interfaces. [...]
As I hinted in the update in my last post, I discovered a very nice addition to Gmail 2.0 which allows for much better Greasemonkey integration, meaning it’s possible for me to update the script. There are now two different versions, one for Firefox and one for Safari*. The one for Firefox will work with [...]
A while ago I wrote a plugin for Firefox that added a link to gmail enabling you to easily delegate emails to Todoist. Unfortunately the update of Gmail to 2.0 broke the plugin. Fortunately you can still use the old interface, and I suspect that’s what a few people have been doing. I’ve looked a [...]
I often find myself creating elaborate spreadsheets to help with things. Usually it amounts to cells with huge nested if statements which, if you’ve never used an Excel style language, looks like this: =IF(D3″”,IF(A3=0, IF(D3=0, 0, 1), “-”),”") And that’s a simple example. The basic syntax is IF(Pred, Then, Else) and nesting them all on [...]
It always annoys me when websites force links to defaulty open in a new window/tab (from now on referred to as window). It strikes me as an arrogant assumption of how you want to browse – you want to keep their websites open when in fact the truth is sometimes – a lot of the [...]
A friend of mine (they all seem to be Guardian readers) pointed me towards a recent Guardian article relating to Facebook. It's an intriguing insight into, as the title describes, “The politics of the people behind Facebook” and for that it is interesting. But it also bleeds a large critique of Facebook into it, some [...]
Humanized have come out with another pretty good product, Songza. I won't use this post to review it in full, but as a summary it is a web-app to find and listen to music. It seems to have a minimalistic design philosophy – that is to say it aims to do only a small number [...]
Apparently lots of people get drunk and send emails or texts that they later regret sending. With these technologies it is very difficult (almost impossible) to stop it being received (with “hilarious” stories as to how they prevented the person from checking their inbox) as it is lost in “the system“. “The system” is what [...]