The technology is getting better and better. Google is announcing a version of PowerPoint and Wiki software in the next few weeks/months. I think this is a turning point for the industry. I have already started using Google Spreadsheets and have been a paying customer of Picasa. We just switched our entire family calendar to…
Autocomplete is one of those UI widgets that can revolutionize an application. Jörn Zaefferer has developed a beautiful lightweight version of autocomplete for jQuery. In my Marketo app, I am heavily using Jack Slocum’s EXT autocomplete. Once I introduced it, it really eliminated alot of complexity, not to mention modal dialogs. As a UI tool,…
I finally got invited to the Trillian Astra alpha. I have been waiting for a long time for this. It’s a beautiful looking application and actually improves upon the reliable Trillian 3.1 that I have been using for years. It adds GTalk support and a slick new interface using tons of alpha transparency. Apparently, it…
I still can’t stop coughing! I can’t concentrate like this. Make it stop! Make it stop! I played tennis this weekend. I thought, “Maybe I could exercise and that will help”. It didn’t help. I had to quit after half a set. Ugh!
I still feel terrible. Coughing. Can’t breathe. It’s amazing how a little thing like breathing can sap your creative energy. This cough has been nagging me for over a week. I am afraid that I won’t be able to play tennis on Sunday. Katie is starting to cough more now too. I bought this thing…
Articles like this make me sick. It’s saying, the only reason people by hybrids is to say to their neighbor, “See, I am saving the world!”. While this may be true, it still is ugly and it shows the worst in us. And worse still, it shows how corporate America thinks of us. We are…
Brad Neuberg posted this awesome vision statement on his blog. Well, it’s not really a vision statement, but it felt like it so I will call it that. It made me sit and think about the big questions that I have in my mind. I wrote a list of the things that I am working…
For about a decade now, I have used TrayColor as a must-have utility to pick colors off the screen and get their HEX for html and css. It’s tiny, works perfectly, sits in the tray. It’s few quirks seemed to be minor enough and it was free. I don’t know who made it. I used…
This is a great effect for a menu, with lots of easy customization. It’s called LavaLamp. (jQuery Plugin) I wonder if it could be made into a vertical menu. I would use it on the top left of this page. Sometimes, I marvel at the creativeness of some people. This effect isn’t something I could…
Katie is the master of our domain. She maintains the family finances and schedules. She is the COO, CFO and CEO of the house. (I am the CTO) Recently, we have had the need to share our family calendar in a distributed way. She had been using Outlook Calendars on her laptop, but that didn’t…
Warning: This post may make you sick. First Daniel, Lindy and Molly had a horrible time getting a flight to the west coast. Then when they finally got on a plane (last one of the night), molly threw up on Daniel’s lap during the landing. He wasn’t even allowed to get up to clean off…
I got this error in Vista yesterday. I closed the error, closed my other programs and rebooted. Was it really Catastrophic? Come on. Whoever writes these errors is not thinking. A user doesn’t want to see that. They want to see something friendly. I would have rewritten this error to say, “Something bad happened and…
The last few days I have been using Microsoft Media Player to listen to music while I work. Specifically, I have been trying their iTunes competitor called Urge. I signed up, but went for the “free” plan. I don’t want to buy music, I just want to listen to the radio for free. Two channels…
I really have come to enjoy and appreciate the service SiteUptime. They will ping a site and keep track of whether it displays in a browser. The first site is free with 15 minute checks. For 5 bucks a month you get 3 sites at 5 minute intervals plus other checks. That is an AWESOME…