Ramblings

Social network no-brainers

Max — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:49:54 +0000

MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Pownce, etc… One must really spend some time figuring which platforms to commit to and which to pass on. How lovely it is, then, when the decision is a “no-brainer“.

Course the opposite is true when a new platform is a complete “time of waste“.

A new first for me.

Max — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:20:32 +0000

I was just accused of being too punctual. I was told that I was always the first person to meetings. That is definitely a new first for me.

P.S. Yes, it was a new staff member who obviously hasn’t truly got to know me yet.

Kid Pics

Max — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:05:06 +0000

The kid is still doing well. There are some new “photos”, so I thought that I’d share.

Frontal shot	Here’s a nice shot of kiddo kicking itself in the eye.
The ultrasound lady giggled for a long time when she spotted kid giving the finger.

Bring back the tape deck

Max — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:24:16 +0000

Ever miss the simple days of those old-fangled cassette tapes? Well now you can have them back … sorta.

Todoist is an awesome task manager (for me)

Max — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:09:29 +0000

I have been on the lookout for the perfect todo list software for years. My dream was a simple interface that would allow me to store todo items hierarchically and pretty much operate in a similar fashion to the pads of paper that I’ve been using, but cleaner. Some applications have come close, but none have ever matched my note jotting style … until now.

Todoist is pretty much exactly what I have been looking for and it comes with exceptional usability bling as a bonus. Projects are available for high-level “work/home” style containing and within those are todos that can be hierarchied like mad (and tagged, if you dig that). That’s how I like it. The interface is great, with click-to-edit goodness, keyboard shortcuts that rock, and pop out menus. There is really nothing in the way of I-don’t-need-this clutter.

Thank you Todoist. I might just buy your premium plan even though I don’t need it … just to let you know that your service rocks.

GridFox: The grid layout Firefox extension

Max — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:48:57 +0000

Ever since I read an article suggesting using CSS backgrounds to check your grid alignment during development I have been dreaming of building out a tool that would make checking webdev-in-progress against a master grid simple and painless.

My concept was an online tool where a user could enter specs such as page width, gutter width, color, opacity, number of rows, number of columns, etc… after which a custom grid image would be generated and a javascript bookmarklet provided to throw a layer containing the generated image over the user’s site. Presto!, Grid-checko!

I got the idea worked out pretty well and did a quick proof of concept with the javascript involved. Then this project got backburnered due to higher priorities.

But lookee lookee … someone just put together a Firefox extension that boasts all the functionality that I was hoping to build and more. Brilliant. I get to take something off of my todo list today.

GridFox
http://www.puidokas.com/portfolio/gridfox/

Hey! I’m on IMDB!

Max — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:55:54 +0000

In doing one of my periodic “where am I on the web” self-Googles, I noticed that I had a page on IMDB.

Cool.

P.S. Costs $40/year to add your photo. :(

HomeAgain?

Max — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:40:46 +0000

I was just over at homeagain.com, and ironically it took me a bit to figure out how to get back to their homepage.

Searchme.com, a slick new visual search engine

Max — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:03:51 +0000

I just finished playing around with beta.searchme.com. It is a new search engine with an Apple iTunes album cover style display for results. Very cool for visually previewing result websites and the experience is rather fun.

Tweet Voyeuring

Max — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:12:03 +0000

I just happened across tweetscan.com, which allows searching of twitter activity. I threw the RSS of search results for “linkedin” into my linkedin RSS folder and look forward to a totally new and much more personal style of feedback.