So apparently Tumblr’s slideshow feature stretches the images to fit the width, which doesn’t really work for screenshots.
That’s not to say the iPad won’t sell, or that I don’t want one. The scariest thing is that I think it probably will. It’s clear that Apple plans for the iPhone OS to be the future of its product line. And that’s scary because the iPhone OS is designed for Apple’s total control.Aaron Swartz on the iPad
My favorite part of the iPad is the proper progress indicator for Safari. (Take note, Safari 4.)
This is what happens when Apple announces a new product.
A Mac application to create Fogbugz tickets. Worth it just for the dead-simple attachments pane.
Three small nitpicks:
- That’s a really weird-looking reload button in the toolbar. I can’t tell what does. It… reloads something?
- The toolbar button says “Send” but the item in the File menu and its keyboard shortcut (command-s) say “Save”. It should be Send, and it should be under the Ticket menu. “Sending” is a better metaphor for uploading to Fogbugz. “Saving” is what you do for local drafts.
- Clicking the icon in the dock when there’s no window open should open a new ticket window.
This is a good example of not doing too much. Tickets does not view, edit, or append to existing Fogbugz tickets — it focuses on adding new ones and that’s it.
This automator action converts the selected text into speech (much faster than realtime, but not exactly instantly) and creates an AIFF file of it. I’m pretty sure it’s just doing this terminal command:
say "sample text that goes on and on" -o audio.aiff
I say “pretty sure” because this is total speculation and I can’t find any evidence to support it. It’s just that they seem to do the exact same thing in about the same amount of time. And Apple isn’t usually big on having multiple different ways to do the same exact thing.
How is it doing this? Where does this automator action call this command, if that’s what it’s doing?
There are no executables. Many other automator actions have executables. Why not this one? There are several property lists, but according to Spotlight none of them have the word “say”. There is a binary nib for each of 19 different languages, though. Could they have embedded a command in the nib? Is that possible? If so, wouldn’t it be wasteful to have the same exact command in 19 different places?
This is the stuff I try to figure out at 11:30 at night.
Tweetie 2
Ninjawords
Clock (timer)
Weightbot
Convertbot
Pastebot
Movies (iPod touch only)
Youtube
Soulver
Maps
A collection of iPhone app startup screens. These are all called default.png, a placeholder while the real app loads.
We tend to believe Zhang’s death was caused primarily by unknown health problems. But there’s still a possibility that the freezing contributed to his death,
The police statement after chinese teachers make student stand outside, forget about him, he dies overnight.
Another quote to add to my list called I Can’t Believe It’s Not The Onion.
