Way back in May, Joen asked for a list of recommendable lightweight content management systems, and poking around in the archives gave me the following list (which I publish so I don’t have to poke around that much again):
The ones I like the best are Harmony and Stacey, of which Stacey seems to be the most interesting for managing something really simple (e.g. cphtwestival.com)
Rob Tannen from Bresslergroup:
But what if you could do divide your attention among multiple facets of the same task, rather than across different tasks? That’s the idea behind “narrow-tasking”. For example, I might be watching a World Cup Game while getting additional information about the players on an iPad. Technically I am still multi-tasking, but the tasks are intended to augment, rather than divide each other.
— Designing For Humans, Narrowtasking And Mobile 3D – PSFK.
If I had a typewriter lying around, I’d buy the modification set instantly. Just think how great it would be to hammer out your next blog post to the sounds of clack!clack!clack!
The USBTypewriter™ is a new and groundbreaking innovation in the field of obsolescence. Lovers of the look, feel, and quality of old fashioned manual typewriters can now use them as keyboards for any USB-capable computer, such as a PC, Mac, or even iPad!
Prices range from $75 for a DIY kit to $450 for a vintage typewriter that is already modded. I might have to look for an old typewriter at the flea market soon.
Interesting quote by Charles Arthur from The Guardian on the trend of governments opening up their data silos:
We didn’t build libraries for a literate citizenry. We built libraries to help citizens become literate. Today we build open data portals not because we have public policy literate citizens, we build them so that citizens may become literate in public policy.
— Learning from Libraries: The Literacy Challenge of Open Data | eaves.ca. Link found through Michael Migurski‘s Delicious-feed that is constantly flowing with interesting links: http://delicious.com/migurski (Michael is the technology head at Stamen, so they should be).
Matt Drance found a change in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program License Agreement—in particular, section 3.3.2 that pissed off a lot of people. It used to read:
No interpreted code may be downloaded or used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Documented APIs and built-in interpreter(s).
Now it reads:
Unless otherwise approved by Apple in writing, no interpreted code may be downloaded or used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Documented APIs and built-in interpreter(s). Notwithstanding the foregoing, with Apple’s prior written consent, an Application may use embedded interpreted code in a limited way if such use is solely for providing minor features or functionality that are consistent with the intended and advertised purpose of the Application.
As Matt points out, this could open up the window for some of those that were really fucked over by this—game developers in particular.
(And no, this does not “open up the platform”, but it removes a fraction of what some of the critics were most pissed off about.)
— Apple Outsider » Hello, Lua.
Straightforward and simple—just the way you like it:
Feed it your home page address (url) and Integrity will follow all of your internal links to find your pages, checking the server response code for all internal and external links found.
— Integrity – website link checker and xml sitemap generator for max OSX.
To be able to use web services such as Hulu, Netflix, see full episodes of The Daily Show or check out BBC’s iPlayer, you can use a VPN to virtually cross the border, and make them think you are allowed to see it (because being in Denmark sucks on this particular point—but not that one, obviously).
This is obviously very illegal, and you are a criminal that will be punished in the shower by Carlos And The Moneymakers if you break the web services’ EULA. I do not endorse this, but until people come to their senses, this could be one way to not care about it.
Theoretically.
Once again, a post to even out the things a bit (which is not to say that I necessarily agree with everything Albert McMurry/SeoulBrother wrote):
The argument goes something like this: Apple ultimately controls the content available on the App Store therefor the App Store is evil.
It should read like this: Apple now owns a press.
— Apple as Censor – SeoulBrother.
Neven Mrgan’s reaction to the term “walled garden” as something that can be described as despicably closed, when the benefits of having something that is closed and cared for can also be of immense beauty:
A software store is not an actual garden, not literally. But enough people have used this metaphor that it’s worth thinking for a second about what it’s actually supposed to mean.
I’m assuming we’re supposed to compare this approach to the freer alternatives such as community gardens and city parks. Ignoring for a moment the fact that these gardens are also regulated by serious restrictions on what one can and can’t do, it still puzzles me that the ‘walled garden’ is presented as an obviously undesirable structure.
Recommended reading for everyone that wants a nuanced view on the closed app store vs. open web discussion.
— The Walled Garden – Neven Mrgan’s tumbl.
This is a fantastic idea—a Services menu for the iPhone. It doesn’t sound that helpful immediately, but this is what multitasking should be like. No switching windows or copy-pasting—you’d have context-aware actions across all apps.
Make sure you see the video as well:
“Mail, for instance, would advertise a Service that says ‘if you have a file or even a snippet of text, I can send it’ and every other app on the platform would get Mail integration for free. Flickr’s app would advertise a Service that says ‘if you have an image, I can upload it’ and then every app—including Apple’s own Photos app—would be able to upload photos to Flickr. Or Facebook. Or Tumblr. Or Posterous. Or an SFTP server. The possibilities are endless, and the beauty of Services is that they’re context sensitive: a Flickr Service would only be visible when you’re handling an image. This keeps the Services menu uncluttered.”
(Also, don’t forget to view source on Chris’ blog—it’s semantically beautiful.)