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• Tab and Indenting in Textarea Elements 2011-04-04

  Tab and Shift-Tab can now do your bidding in textarea elements with this jQuery extension and bookmarklet.

• Twitter Betrays App Developers 2011-03-12

  Yesterday Twitter told third-party developers not to compete against official client apps. Here's why it feels personal

• A Bookmarklet to Enable All Text Selection 2011-01-24

  A bookmarklet that re-enables text selection when website authors have disabled it.

• Short URLs in Markup with rel-shortlink 2010-02-23

  Everything you need to know about exposing your short URLs in markup and HTTP headers with rel="shortlink"

• Google Buzz is Already Dead 2010-02-13

  Why Google Buzz will fail: Too much obligation, too much visual clutter, too many non-friends.

• Qwest Customer Service: Terrible 2009-10-21

  Today, Qwest sent me a email alerting me to suspicious activity on my account but argued with me when I called them, at their request.

• Github Issue Linker 2009-09-06

  A simple Wordpress plugin that looks for numbers with pound signs in front of them and links them to issues in your GitHub repo.

• Snow Leopard Problems 2009-09-03

  Having recently installed Snow Leopard, these are the problems I have run into.

• Pasting Unformatted Text on OS X 2009-07-30

  Annoying: Apple software that retains source formatting when copy and pasting, incl. Keynote, Pages, and Mail.app. A fix and a work-around.

• Nielsen, Password Masking, and the iPhone 2009-07-14

  Is password masking really wrong, and should iPhone style password masking be implemented online?

• The Arrogance of Google (and the effect on its users) 2009-07-14

  Google seems to be letting its arrogance dictate a position of indifference towards customers. I argue this is not a wise move.

• The Anti-Competitive Google 2009-07-14

  Google is betting that the Web is going to continue be a very strong platform. Their actions, however, belie this vision in favor of anti-competitive corporate strategies.

• Import the iPhone User Agent into the Firefox plugin User Agent Switcher (download) 2009-05-20

  Import this XML file into the Firefox plugin User Agent Switcher to send the iPhone Safari user agent string.

• Student film festival tips 2009-04-29

  Tips from a picky viewer for students entering film festivals.

• The "yearbook method" of graphic design 2009-04-29

  One of the most meaningless, transient, amateur patterns in "graphic design" is the trend of adding extraneous punctuation all over the place. The sad part is that this design sin ignores the meaning and history of the symbols it abuses.

• Bookmarklets 2009-04-29

  Bookmarklets, including enabling/disabling sub-pixel text rendering, guessing which font is used on the page, improving reading experiences, forcing the entire page to render in grayscale, allowing text selection (copy-paste), converting a page to Markdown, showing linked images and videos in-page, and killing GIFs

• A Plan to Increase Opera's Marketshare 2009-03-31

  I frequently declare Opera my favorite browser, but it is hardly the most popular. Here is what I would have the company do to gain browser market share.

• Mac Apps Starter Pack 2009-03-31

  A list of apps (programs) which I think are useful for every new Mac user.

• Being a UX Team of One (Talk by Leah Buley) 2009-03-15

  A recap of a fantastic talk by Leah Buley of Adaptive Path as given on March 15, 2009 at SXSW 2009. It's all about how to do effective user experience work with very little.

• TextExpander tips: Replacing Quicksilver via Spotlight; Avoiding Little Snitch crashing 2009-02-12

  TextExpander tips: Replacing Quicksilver via Spotlight and TextExpander; Avoiding Little Snitch and TextExpander working together to crash your Mac

• Touching Radiohead "Nude" Remix: "Big Ideas (Don't Get Any)" 2008-06-07

  I'm moved by this incredible remix of Radiohead's "Nude" (from In Rainbows), which uses old computer peripherals as instrumentation and voice for the song. Watch the video, read the remixer's rationale and discover what makes this so emotional.

• Dvorak: Type smarter, faster, and healthier 2008-05-21

  Dvorak keyboard layout: What is is, how to switch, and more.

  Essentially the Dvorak keyboard looks just like the keyboard you're sitting in front of right now, but the letters and some symbols are rearranged so that the most commonly used keys are already under your fingers (on "home row") or close by. By minimizing the distance your fingers are traveling, you can type faster and healthier.

• X-UA-Compatible: Standards by default! And there was much rejoicing. 2008-03-04

  I'm very hopeful for strong standards support in Internet Explorer 8 after Microsoft reverses their position on X-UA-Compatible.

  You can sleep better tonight, Internet.

• The Ideal Mac RSS Feed Reader 2008-03-04

  A comparison of Shrook, NewsFire, and NetNewsWire (all of which are now free) and which features I'd like to see in an ideal client. (Spoiler: NetNewsWire comes out on top.)

• God's Debris 2008-03-02

  Comments (yours and mine!) on Scott Adam's book "God's Debris"

• Ben Charny and Shoddy Journalism 2008-02-21

  Ben Charny, tech journalist, earns a round of criticism from Daring Fireball, Joel on Software, and others for horrendous reporting.

• Mozilla leaves Opera users to the wolves 2008-02-18

  Opera Software is miffed at Mozilla because they discovered a problem affecting their own Firefox software as well as Opera's, fixed the hole, told Opera, and then announced the hole to the public one day later.

  This is a big deal because it's industry-standard behavior to give software manufacturers anywhere from months to over a year to fix a security problem in their software after you warn them about it. A day is unheard-of. Only after a long time or after they've fixed it does it become ethical to tell the public. Why? Because announcing a problem before the vendor fixed it puts users at risk.

  Now I'm upset with Mozilla for leaving me out in the cold.

• Renaming PHP: Powering Hypertext and Programs? 2008-01-12

  Should PHP be renamed? It's more general than a hypertext preprocessor or a personal home page.

• Portable PHP code: DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR is not necessary 2008-01-06

  In attempting to write cross-platform, portable PHP code, I used PHP's DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant to write path strings, e.g. "..".DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."foo", because the "proper" way to do it on Windows would be "..\foo" while on everything else, it would be "../foo"...

• MacBook (Pro) Touchpads: A Joy to Use. (a/k/a Scrolling TrackPad) 2008-01-04

  Apple's "Scrolling TrackPads," found in the MacBook and MacBook Pro, are flawless. Some who have used HP or Dell touchpads may find this hard to believe. Here I respond to common questions and discuss what I love about Apple's touchpads.

• Convert .WMA Audio to MP3, WAV, etc. for iTunes on Mac OS X (for free) with Switch 2007-12-16

  Want to play WMA files in iTunes? Here's how to convert them to MP3 on your Mac.

• Site redesign imminent 2007-12-12

  I just wanted to say that, as of December 2007, I am beginning in earnest the process of giving this site the rehaul it so badly needs. The content here is only a part of what I offer online, and soon, my homepage will provide access to much more. I kn

• Including the Boost C++ library in XCode 2007-11-27

  Using the Boost C++ library in XCode

• Enso: Quicksilver for Windows? (An application launcher and more) 2007-11-26

  Application launcher Enso: Quicksilver for Windows?

• Microsoft now pushing IE7 to all XP users 2007-11-16

  Good news for web developers! Microsoft is now pushing IE7 to all Windows XP users as a high-priority, automatically-delivered (if Automatic Update in Windows XP is on) update. Strangely, they say, "Distribution of Internet Explorer 7 by Automatic Updates

• Convert FLAC to High-Quality MP3 (or WAV, or AIFF) for iTunes (OS X) 2007-11-11

  How to rip FLAC to MP3 in OS X (iTunes)

• Amazon MP3: Quality, DRM-free, legal downloads (iTunes Plus alternative) 2007-10-12

  Legal, awesome, high-bitrate music!

• Qwest: World's slowest ISP 2007-09-15

  I just thought I'd share that Qwest internet (DSL) is a lot slower than advertised. 1.5Mbps down? No, I don't think so. More like 56k each way is what it feels like (but is more like three times that).

• iTunes Plus Tips 2007-07-21

  Basically I think iTunes Plus is awesome. Tips.

• Switch Control and Alt buttons in Windows 2007-07-10

  Exchanges Alt and Control key functionality on Windows so as to be familiar to Mac users.

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