Category Archives: Browsers
How to snag images that someone doesn’t want you to get in 4 steps.
Sometimes on the web people think that they can deliver images or music to your computer for you to look at or listen to, but somehow keep you from possessing. They can’t.
Better Berkeley Webcasts even better
Nate Whitten wrote in with a suggestion for Better Berkeley Webcasts. He wants to save all of the files to check them out later. He’s using a download manager like Down Them All1, but Berkeley’s files are named poorly, so he doesn’t know which one to watch first. Even better, he sent in the fix [...]
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Professor Robb Willer and the Golden Apple
The group of misfits I grew up with has turned out pretty well. One of them, Robb Willer was my debate partner for a while. He’s gone on to be a professor at Berkeley. Robb won the Golden Apple award for being an awesome teacher. How awesome? Robb’s got intellectual groupies! Berkeley put up Robb’s [...]
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Making Context Free Art
If you are reading this post in your feed reader, you’ll want to click through to my actual website. Trust me on this one. I was really impressed with Aza Raskin’s ContextFree.js experiment. I like how the simple rules of a context free art piece generate complex forms. See below, that text will turn into [...]
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It’s all details
They say the devil is in the details. Sometimes subtle details are a place to shine. I was reading notes on a lecture by the great Joshua Schachter, developer of Del.icio.us, when I was thunderstruck by a detail. You have to speak the user’s language. “Bookmarks” are what you call them if you use Netscape [...]
How to install Add-Art
Steve Lambert put up a nice helpful walkthrough video on Add-Art, the project I’ve been working on recently. Take a mo’ and check out the project and the video. Introduction to Add-Art from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.
Interrobang
“You’re really going to start a band called interrobang‽” asked Tom excitedly.
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Turn Ads into Art with AddArt
Another great idea from the folks at Eyebeam. Take the idea of one of the most popular extensions for Firefox, AdBlock, but remix it to display art placeholders instead of blank space. Instead of crappy banners, Fox news gets an eagle flying with an American Flag! Now, this isn’t a final product – it’s still [...]
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The problem of spam
Been reading a lot about spam problems lately. It isn’t a problem for me, since I’m not a high value target for spam. The other reason is that I’ve raised the bar by a very tiny amount. CAPTCHAs (those type the letters in the picture tests) are designed to raise the bar for spammers, and [...]
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