jonathan schellack

Happy Halloween

Jonathan Schellack — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:27:31 +0000

I wanted to share the cuteness that Halloween lets us put out on display:

Time for a Refresh

Jonathan Schellack — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:02:14 +0000

I think that a much-needed update to the design and layout of this blog would do the blog some good. Hopefully it will also push me to blog more frequently as well. So look for more in this space, along those lines, soon.

My goals are to make this blog about communicating. So here’s a taste:

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My New Goal

Jonathan Schellack — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:00:05 +0000

I have a new goal. My goal is to learn all of the keyboard shortcuts for the Mac.

I found them all listed on this page. I love that Apple actually put them all in one place. If you are ever looking for a keyboard shortcut to do anything on the Mac, it’s on that page. Wish me luck!

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Get Firefox 3.5 to Use Google Apps Mail for Mailto: Links

Jonathan Schellack — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:00:29 +0000

Have a Google Apps account that you want to use as your default mail client in the Firefox web browser? Here are the instructions:

In the Firefox address bar, type about:config and press Enter. Click to indicate that you want to proceed.
In the filter box, type gecko. to show fewer config items.
Look for an item called gecko.handlerService.AllowRegisterFromDifferentHost and double-click on it to change the value from false to true.
Copy the following code into the address bar and press Enter:
javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto", "https://mail.google.com/mail/a/yourdomain.com?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","Google Apps Mail")
NOTE: change yourdomain.com to the actual text of your domain (mine is schellack.net, so I put that there, even with the period).
On the prompt asking whether or not you want to add the mailto handler, click OK.
Open up Firefox’s Options (Tools >> Options on a PC or Firefox >> Preferences on a Mac). Go to the Applications tab.
Scroll down until you see a Content Type of mailto, and change its action to Google Apps Mail.

Once you’ve followed those steps, clicking on an email link (with the prefix mailto:) will create a new email in your Google Apps Mail account!

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Baby Girl Growing Up

Jonathan Schellack — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:04:28 +0000

It’d been way too long since I posted a baby video, right? Here you go:

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Recent Downtime

Jonathan Schellack — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:09:38 +0000

Please accept my humble apologies for the recent downtime experienced here on my site. My web host was doing a migration to a new server, and I forgot to update the DNS records so that the domain name pointed to the new IP address (whoops!). That has, of course, been fixed now.

Hopefully things will be a bit snappier now, post-migration

Oh, and let me know say — I love WordPress!

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More iPhone App Ideas

Jonathan Schellack — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:28:32 +0000

So since my (somewhat) recent post on iPhone App Ideas, I’ve seen a number of site visitors apparently searching for iPhone app ideas themselves. If you are here looking for your own ideas, I’d recommend doing something no one else has thought of yet.

Oh wait, you mean you are having difficulty figuring something like that out? Yeah, it’s tough isn’t it.

Anyway, thought you might like to know that I do have some app ideas, I’m just not sharing them because I’m hoping to find the time to develop them myself.

If you are looking for some of what I’ve been tinkering around with, check out fictionalities.com — I haven’t worked on it lately (in all honestly), but I thought you might find it interesting, especially if you are interested in seeing some fun, artsy things you can do with just JavaScript.

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Watch New Yorker Cover Be Drawn on iPhone

Jonathan Schellack — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:30:14 +0000

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Artist Jorge Colombo drew that on his iPhone in about an hour. Wow.

[via Gizmodo]

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