Category Archives: Software
LibraryDroid tracks your books
Here’s me: I have an android phone, I can program, I use LibraryThing for tracking my books. Here’s how those things come together.
Also posted in Dev, Hacks, Python, Ruby Tagged android, LibraryThing, Python, Ruby, scripting Leave a comment
Project Idea: Dasher for Android
Dasher is a text entry method completely unlike a keyboard. You just swipe and like a video game you navigate through the possible sentences you could be writing.
Check the demo:
I like the idea that you are just navigating through the Borgesian infinite library to extract your sentences.
Dasher is free and GPL, it just hasn’t [...]
Project Idea: WordpRSS
If you log into the dashboard screen of your Wordpress install, you should be able to see feeds of your choice. And do something with them!
Also posted in Dev, rss, wordpress Tagged braindump, feeds, ideas, my.own.cloud, projects, rss, syndication, vaporware, wordpress Leave a comment
Bitrot: Haloscan
More BitRot as old bits of the web die off and are replaced…
Automattic Writing
The company behind WordPress has written a pretty amazing online grammar and style checker.
It integrates with WordPress and other platforms, providing really good suggestions. Each mark also comes with an “Explain” option. That’s nice because it gives you the reasoning for the suggestion. I’ve installed the WordPress plugin – expect less passive voice from me.
If [...]
Your facebook applications suck
Hey there buddy. I want to talk to you about all these applications you’ve been making and putting on the Facebook. This is going to be a difficult conversation, so take a seat.
I know you want to go viral like that goddamn werewolf/ zombie/ vampire/ coprophage army thing. But please. You [...]
Surveil me better
I’ve joined the travel site dopplr. It’s pretty simple. Put in trips, connect through them. Useful for the frequent flying types that I’m supposed to become soon. You can see the little badge over there on the left telling you that I’ll be in Mount Snow this weekend.
Except that it [...]
Also posted in Pals, Reviews, Snowboarding Tagged dopplr, Reviews, Snowboarding, trips Leave a comment
Ramblings about add-art
Ignore this, it is just a braindump from the train. Unless you want to help out.
I’ve started working on a project called add-art. The idea is to turn advertisements into beauty. It is based on the popular ad-block-plus firefox extension, but instead of leaving holes where advertisements are removed, it would insert art. Curators [...]
Also posted in Art, Dev, Hacks Tagged add-art, Art, eyebeam, firefox, flickr, opensource Leave a comment
Making the switch to Ubuntu
Yesterday morning, the 7.10 version of Ubuntu was released. It’s supposed to be chock full of goodness, so my neighbor Lawyer Matt and I had an install party with Aaron and Ian.
I dug out an old IBM Thinkpad T20 laptop that had been lying around and we got to it. I’d tried various [...]
Also posted in Linux, User Experience 1 Comment
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