About two months ago Plex/Nine, the most awesome Mac Media Center solution for OS X out there, was released. The release was an entire overhaul of the Plex/Eight code and basically had — featurewise — nothing new to offer (heck, even some stuff that worked before didn’t work anymore!). However, this release got me very, …
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Tweet Nest and Instagr.am, sitting in a tree …
Last month I’ve set up Tweet Nest, a browsable, searchable and easily customizable archive and backup for your tweets, at https://www.bram.us/tweets/ in order to have a local archive of all (*) my tweets. More recently I’ve started using Instagr.am, an instant photos sharing app for the iPhone (with Twitter, Facebook & Flickr integration). Now, what …
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Hyperdock
“Hyperdock adds long awaited features to your Dock: Select single application windows just by moving the mouse on a dock item, use mouse clicks to quickly open new windows and many more.” — Another handy feature are the Window Previews: hover over any item in the dock, and it will show you the app’s windows …
Mac OS X Visual Git Clients
Looking forward to see this batch of second generation (*) visual Git clients to be released any time soon: Tower, Gitti and GitMac. (*) To me, first generation Mac OS X Git Clients include GitX, GitBox along with the helper app OpenInGitGui Somewhat related: Cornerstone2 (Visual SVN Client) was released recently. Great app which I …
AlphaBaby
My kids love to play with the computer. Unfortunately, they also have the habit of renaming my hard drive to “axlfkaj”. So, I wrote AlphaBaby [which] lets even infants and toddlers have fun playing with the computer: Every time a key is pressed or the mouse is clicked, a letter or shape is drawn [on …
Dropbox CEO: Why search advertising failed us
Darcy Clarke vs. my code
Zepto.js
“Zepto.js is a minimalist inlinable framework for mobile WebKit browsers, with a jQuery-like chaining syntax.” — I like the bigger picture behind this: don’t include a full jQuery on a mobile site but go back to basics and serve visitors a tiny javascript file which handles most of the stuff. Somewhat (in an idea-wise manner) …
How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks
“Allied forces initially tried conventional intelligence gathering: spying, intercepting and decoding transmissions and interrogating captured enemies. Using these methods, the Allies deduced that the German military industrial complex churned out around 1,400 tanks each month from June 1940 through September 1942. That just didn’t seem right.”