Category Archives: Software
Judge Droid lays down the law
I couldn’t help it. I got excited about Silent Night and Droid Tracks, and then remembered how much I love Locale. I had to do this, and the android scripting environment made it too easy. Here comes Judge Droid – he makes your phone obey the rules.
Project Idea: Locale as a Script on Android
I think you could do a good subset of Locale‘s features with the Android Scripting Environment.
Dasher for Android – coming soon!
Angelo of from Italy let me know he’s working on a version of Dasher for Android! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25-t80ld8MY Looks like he’s using just the tilt sensors, but hopefully it will take finger input as well.
Android Scripting Environment is heating up
The Android Scripting Environment is to the Android phone as Greasemonkey is to Firefox. It’s a simple place to do quick hacks for your phone without having to build a full plugin or application. Two cool scripts that just got released are Silent Night and Droid Track.
Project Idea: Context Free or Processing Header Plugin for WordPress
An iteration or so of the website ago I hacked in a random art generator into the background of the title of my website using ContextFree.js by Aza Raskin. It was a cool little hack, but what would be really nice is to make it shareable. I’d like a WordPress Plugin that finds the heading [...]
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Optimizing Your Mac
Jeff Crouse has a really good post on Optimizing Your Mac. In my TODO file.
How to show WordPress page hierarchies
Got a request for help from some the Eyebeam list.1 The folks organizing the Urban Wilderness Action Center for the international Electrosmog festival2 wanted some usability help. Navigating between subpages of their projects was too confusing. If you like the way the sub pages are listed out on, say, the Berlin Micro-Turf Expedition – here [...]
Volunteer Your Computer to Keep Privacy Possible
The good folks over at Wild Bee have an excellent article about how you can use your computer to help the world while you sleep. Lotsa people run SETI@home – I think it is because of the screensaver. Instead of a looking for aliens, you could help political dissidents in repressive regimes, protect anonymous whistleblowers, [...]
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.
Project Idea: Rasterbator in Processing or Java