One of my favorite mashups we ever did at MarketWatch put realtime news on a live timeline. Cool stuff.
Software Development
TimelineSetter: A New Way to Display Timelines on the Web ← I’m a big fan of timelines as a tool to tell a story. Excited that ProPublica is making it easier.
Was Wrong on OpenID
My friend John asked me to present at a class of his next week at the U of MN. I took an old Keynote presentation I had from a couple of years ago to start with and ran across this slide. I don’t think I could have been more wrong! I was definitely an OpenID advocate at the time, …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Was Wrong on OpenIDI 💚 Unix
Maybe this should be titled “I [Heart] Shell”, but it seems more fitting to lay praise at Unix. Sometimes you do something on the prompt and you just look and think “Wow, that would be crazy hard on any other platform!”. while true; do (date; netstat -n | grep 1.2.3.4 | awk …
Keep reading · 1 minute: I 💚 UnixLinkedIn InMap
“Synced” Is Not a Word
Let me nitpick for a moment. I’m a huge fan of Omnifocus and I use it on my Macs, iPhone and iPad. I’ve bought it for everything I use regularly and I use it dozens of times every day. One of the key things that Omnifocus does so well is synchronize all of your task data across …
Keep reading · 1 minute: "Synced" Is Not a WordApps With Notifications
I’ve got a lot of applications on my iPhone. They are spread over multiple pages, and some of them are in folders with similar applications. I also get notifications from a lot of applications. I’ve found that it would be really nice if there was a way on my iPhone to see all the …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Apps With NotificationsKindle Icon Confusion
Just yesterday Amazon released the Kindle application into the Mac App Store. They also released a new version of the iOS Kindle application. Time to install and update. On the iPhone I noticed that they had a new icon that put the Kindle brand front and center. Nice. I then went …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Kindle Icon ConfusionRemote.app and Cover Art
I keep a mountain of content in iTunes and I am constantly accessing it one way or another. The iPad Remote application is one of the more common methods. It is a very well done application. Super easy, fast, polished. Except one thing. I have no idea why, but Remote insists on …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Remote.app and Cover ArtSparklines Used Well
I absolutely dig the way the My-Cast weather application for the iPhone uses sparklines. Works just as it should, and conveys information without me even thinking about it. (Just in case, the sparklines are the little word-sized graphs next to each data item.)
