Thomas Bøhm´s blog about convergent technology, design and æsthetics, lifehacking, and the occasional maniacal rant.
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Great tutorial on the use of Yahoo Query Language for mashing up APIs and combining them in Yahoo´s server farm before return.
Tablet devices that are just for viewing magazines have an audience the size of Darlington Football Club. The iPhone has typified a trend towards convergence of devices: my iPhone is my mp3 player, phone, camera, portable computer, and on the very rare occasion gaming device. So why would I buy a piece of chunky hardware to view magazines now-and-again?
/by @andjdavies: Tablets. So hot right now…
I so agree about the current tsunami of pure “e-readers”.
Soulver for iPhone, the iPhone port of my favorite calculation scratchpad, was just released. I’ve been beta-testing it for months (and may have bugged them into making it in the first place), and its beta version (“Sums”) was even in my First & 20 profile.
Soulver for Mac is always open on all of my computers — home, work, and laptop. It’s a calculator, a numeric scratchpad, and a simple spreadsheet all in one simple, fast, inexpensive program with almost no interface.
Nobody ever knows what it is, but everyone who sees me use it always asks, “Hey, what’s that?” And when they see what it does, they instantly download their own demo copy.
If you frequently perform calculations throughout the day, you need to try Soulver. If you like it, buy it. And strongly consider the iPhone version as a Calculator replacement.
Both the mac and iphone version looks like great apps to have instead of traditional calculators (and perhaps also spreadsheets in some cases), the only thing is that the iPhone version seems to miss the benefit of the mac version´s word-processor style interface (on account of the keyboard being used).
→ mowglii - Itsy Twitter app for Mac
Small and minimal but some tricks up its sleeve like inline images. Maybe something for the Mrs. ?:)
Where zen ends, ass kicking begins.
Hyde (That 70s Show) /via mnmal
→ Web Analytics in Real Time - Clicky.
Seems like a nice (and popular) real-time alternative to Google Analytics. It also tracks shorturls and twitter, but I guess Google won´t be far behind on that after just launching goo.gl and all.
Perfect animation (and funny):
No Time For Nuts
Digital short from the dvd Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Reblogged from stevenbeelen´s most awesome blog.
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If the tablet was to be used to control multiple smart home sub-systems from unique apps this would result in a great deal of repeated opening and closing of each application. One potential way around this would be to have a common web interface to all devices - perhaps using something like HomeSeer and xAP / xPL. Or perhaps the larger form factor of the tablet will allow for a battery big enough to cope with the power-sapping nature of running multiple concurrent apps?
Yes, oh god, please let it multitask. If not for anything else just to shut up all the complainers of missing multitasking on the iPhone.
It’s really hard to be simple, it’s much easier to look simple
Davide Butler on “Redesigning Design” (via quartodisecolo and sid05)
Just happened to stumble upon Nottingham – The elegant notepad for your Mac today. It´s a note-taking app for mac in the spirit of Notational Velocity in that it´s simple and optimised for keyboard use.
I like (other than the delicious icon and the improved UI) that it also supports syncing with the Simplenote app for the iPhone. Sync is a must these days.
What really tickled my fancy however was that it also supports Markdown which I just read John Gruber´s excellent documentation on yesterday !
In his words:
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
