matthewmcvickar + software 91
Kieran Healy: Apple for the Teacher
ebooks
education
apple
software
8 weeks ago by matthewmcvickar
…it’s a pity that Apple has chosen to re-enter the education market with a pitch about Reinventing the Textbook that, frankly, sounds pretty old hat. The reason, I suppose, is that there’s potentially a lot of money to be made selling the things to schools as replacements for the books.
8 weeks ago by matthewmcvickar
Springbox: Utilizing a Single Smart Object Throughout Multiple PSDs
8 weeks ago by matthewmcvickar
How to use the Smart Objects Link Panel I just linked.
photoshop
adobe
software
design
8 weeks ago by matthewmcvickar
PS-Scripts: Smart Object links panel
8 weeks ago by matthewmcvickar
An awesome and essential script for creating objects that can be placed and linked in PSDs across multiple files. (Essentially Smart Objects that can be updated across multiple PSDs.)
photoshop
software
8 weeks ago by matthewmcvickar
Maciej Ceglowski: Don’t Be a Free User
december 2011 by matthewmcvickar
‘Like a service? Make them charge you or show you ads. If they won’t do it, clone them and do it yourself. Soon you’ll be the only game in town!’
internet
software
business
from instapaper
december 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Madrona Labs: Aalto
november 2011 by matthewmcvickar
A software synthesizer I’d very much like to try.
software
music
synth
november 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Quora: How big of a library can iTunes handle?
october 2011 by matthewmcvickar
‘For most people today (9/27/2011) running a typical system, try not to go over 30,000 songs if you value the user experience. There is no doubt this will not be an issue in the future.’
itunes
software
osx
music
memory
october 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Marked Bonus Pack (scripts, commands and bundles)
october 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Vital. ‘The Marked Bonus Pack is a collection of scripts, commands and services. Some work with multiple editors, some are specific to certain editors. The Services will generally work with any editor that has the necessary capabilities. The rest are organized in folders based on the application they work with.’
software
osx
markdown
october 2011 by matthewmcvickar
LastHistory: Visualizing Last.fm Listening Histories and Personal Streams
september 2011 by matthewmcvickar
‘LastHistory allows you to analyze music listening histories from Last.fm through an interactive visualization and to explore your own past by combining the music you listened to with your own photos and calendar entries.’
last.fm
software
mac
music
visualization
september 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Blogsmith Blogging Bundle
september 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Documentation for Brett Terpstra's TextMate bundle for blogging.
blogging
writing
mac
software
textmate
september 2011 by matthewmcvickar
_Framework: An Introduction to the Ableton Framework Classes
august 2011 by matthewmcvickar
“Documentation for the Ableton Live MIDI Remote Script _Framework classes, based on decompiled Python sources and docstrings.”
Someday.
ableton
music
software
programming
midi
Someday.
august 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Civic Commons
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
“Let’s Transform Governments With Tech and Innovation (and Save Millions of Dollars, Too)”
“Government entities at all levels face substantial and similar IT challenges, but today, each must take them on independently. Why can’t they share their technology, eliminating redundancy, fostering innovation, and cutting costs? We think they can.”
government
software
america
“Government entities at all levels face substantial and similar IT challenges, but today, each must take them on independently. Why can’t they share their technology, eliminating redundancy, fostering innovation, and cutting costs? We think they can.”
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Kristóf Kovács: A little collection of cool unix terminal/console/curses tools
may 2011 by matthewmcvickar
“Just a list of 20 (now 24) little-known tools for the command line — I hope you find something useful that you weren't aware of yet! Use your operating system's package manager to install most of them.”
terminal
unix
software
commandline
may 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Andre Torrez: an empathetic plan
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
“Complain about the way other people make software by making software.”
…
“Worse is when the people doing the complaining also make software or web sites or iPhone applications themselves. As visible leaders of the web, I think there are a lot of folks who could do a favor to younger, less experienced people by setting an example of critiquing to raise up rather than critiquing to tear down.”
development
software
webdevelopment
startup
…
“Worse is when the people doing the complaining also make software or web sites or iPhone applications themselves. As visible leaders of the web, I think there are a lot of folks who could do a favor to younger, less experienced people by setting an example of critiquing to raise up rather than critiquing to tear down.”
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Acorn
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
"A great Mac image editor built for humans." I would like to buy this at some point. Alternative to Photoshop.
design
osx
software
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Prey
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
“Open source anti-theft solution for Mac, PCs & Phones.”
I use hiddenapp.com, but this looks good. Another option is http://www.orbicule.com/undercover/mac/.
software
security
opensource
I use hiddenapp.com, but this looks good. Another option is http://www.orbicule.com/undercover/mac/.
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Brett Terpstra: Quick tip: AppleScript application toggle
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Combine this small, easily customizable AppleScript with a keyboard shortcut utility (like FastScripts) to quickly toggle an application forward and back. I use this for Terminal and TaskPaper.
osx
software
productivity
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Brett Terpstra: Create TextExpander Group Download URL
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
“Select a group and enter your preferred prefix for the shortcuts assigned to each snippet. The resulting url may be downloaded as a custom .textexpander file, or used with TextExpander’s ‘Install from URL’ feature. Using the latter will provide automatic updates if the group is added to or changed, custom prefixes are preserved.”
textexpander
text
osx
software
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Jasonevers: Green Moleskine
march 2011 by matthewmcvickar
A TextMate mod. Maybe check this out at some point; I think Dean uses it.
programming
textmate
software
osx
march 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Sidestep
march 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Prevent security risks from stuff like Firesheep.
“When you connect to the Internet through an unprotected wireless network, such as at a coffeeshop or an airport, where you don’t have to enter a security key, you’re putting yourself at risk. Attackers connected to the same network can easily intercept your unencrypted traffic and log in as you to services such as Facebook, Amazon, and LinkedIn.”
osx
security
wifi
software
“When you connect to the Internet through an unprotected wireless network, such as at a coffeeshop or an airport, where you don’t have to enter a security key, you’re putting yourself at risk. Attackers connected to the same network can easily intercept your unencrypted traffic and log in as you to services such as Facebook, Amazon, and LinkedIn.”
march 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Utilu IE Collection
february 2011 by matthewmcvickar
This works. Goodbye and good riddance, three IE-dedicated VMs.
browser
webdevelopment
iebug
windows
software
february 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Mac OS X 10.6 Help: Key symbols
february 2011 by matthewmcvickar
For when an app has a keyboard shortcut symbol and you can't figure out which key they mean.
“The symbols below appear in menus and represent keys that are used in keyboard shortcuts. Some of these symbols also appear in the help and are referred to as ‘modifier keys.’”
osx
keyboard
software
“The symbols below appear in menus and represent keys that are used in keyboard shortcuts. Some of these symbols also appear in the help and are referred to as ‘modifier keys.’”
february 2011 by matthewmcvickar
beets
february 2011 by matthewmcvickar
“Beets is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks. The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database. It then provides a bouquet of tools for manipulating and accessing your music.”
mp3
music
software
linux
february 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Google Refine
january 2011 by matthewmcvickar
“Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.”
data
software
january 2011 by matthewmcvickar
plowshare
january 2011 by matthewmcvickar
“plowshare is a command-line application designed for some of the most popular file-sharing websites. Using plowshare you will be able to download files (and for some modules also upload, list and delete) on UNIX-like operating systems:”
E.g.: $ plowdown http://rapidshare.com/files/130403982/1989_-_Castellum_honesti.rar
filesharing
software
commandline
E.g.: $ plowdown http://rapidshare.com/files/130403982/1989_-_Castellum_honesti.rar
january 2011 by matthewmcvickar
git read: Learn git One Commit at a Time
june 2010 by matthewmcvickar
I'm going to read and internalize all of this one day. Yes I am.
howto
programming
reference
software
git
documentation
development
webdevelopment
june 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Instapaper Blog: dschoon’s customer review of Instapaper Pro in the App Store
april 2010 by matthewmcvickar
This is exactly why Instapaper is so incredible: "Instapaper makes me more productive, everywhere. On my desktop it dismisses distractions. On the go it transmutes idle time to knowledge. It remembers things I forget, but it has never become a new todo entry on my list. If all my apps had this power, I would be utterly unstoppable."
instapaper
software
review
productivity
april 2010 by matthewmcvickar
tecosystems: Why I Am Against Software Patents
march 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Plain and simple: software patents don't work because there's too much software and not enough people who know about it.
copyright
economics
ip
patents
software
technology
march 2010 by matthewmcvickar
mda-vst.com: Free Effect Plugins
june 2009 by matthewmcvickar
A great selection of VST and AU audio effects plugins for free download.
audio
opensource
software
sound
free
music
vst
plugins
june 2009 by matthewmcvickar
Freedom
may 2009 by matthewmcvickar
"Freedom is an application that disables networking on an Apple computer for up to eight hours at a time." Only restarting can circumvent the time limit you've sent.
free
osx
productivity
focus
lifehack
software
may 2009 by matthewmcvickar
Random Genius: Safari 4 Hidden Preferences
february 2009 by matthewmcvickar
Maybe useful at some point.
software
safari4
safari
osx
preferences
reference
mac
howto
february 2009 by matthewmcvickar
WebAIM: History of the browser user-agent string
december 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Short, irreverent, accurate, and funny.
webdevelopment
browserwars
Internet
software
history
funny
december 2008 by matthewmcvickar
HTTP Client
december 2008 by matthewmcvickar
"A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages."
software
osx
web
webdevelopment
opensource
internet
http
december 2008 by matthewmcvickar
iTouchMidi
october 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Very neat MIDI controller iPhone apps.
iphone
midi
music
audio
sound
software
october 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Two AM Software: Dictionary Cleaner
august 2008 by matthewmcvickar
"One of the great features of Mac OS X has aways been the built-in spelling checker. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to see what words you've added. But with Dictionary Cleaner, a convienient System Preferences pane for Mac OS X, now you can."
osx
dictionary
software
free
august 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Daring Fireball: Ronco Spray-On Usability
august 2008 by matthewmcvickar
On the characteristic lack of usability in open source projects, and why. "The distributed, collaborative nature of open source software works for developer-level software, but works against user-level software. Imagine a motion picture produced like a large open source project. Different scenes written and directed by different people, spread across the world. Editing decisions forged by group consensus on mailing lists. The result would be unfocused, incoherent, and unenjoyable."
usability
design
software
opensource
interface
linux
osx
windows
gui
august 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Adactio: Funny how?
july 2008 by matthewmcvickar
"It’s not X because it’s Y, it’s X because it looks like it’s X because it’s Y."
snowclone
humor
language
software
psychology
july 2008 by matthewmcvickar
37signals: Learning from "bad" UI
july 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Interesting. "Patt can work on his colors and alignment, and hopefully please his user base with a helpful tool. Meanwhile the rest of us would be wise to work on the quality and value of our criticism."
criticism
software
gui
interface
iphone
usability
design
july 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Araelium Group: DMG Canvas
july 2008 by matthewmcvickar
"DMG Canvas builds disk images from template documents that you create."
osx
software
design
free
july 2008 by matthewmcvickar
CHDK
june 2008 by matthewmcvickar
"Unleash the POWER in your PowerShot!" Add RAW support, scripting, and more to Canon cameras that couldn't support it before. (My A520 is not currently supported.)
camera
software
hack
canon
photography
june 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Anki
june 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Spaced repetition! "Designed to help you remember facts (such as words and phrases in a foreign language) as easily, quickly and efficiently as possible. To do this, it tracks how well you remember each fact, and uses that info to schedule review times.
education
free
language
opensource
osx
software
japanese
june 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Lighthead: Caffeine
june 2008 by matthewmcvickar
"Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers."
software
mac
presentation
june 2008 by matthewmcvickar
IETester
may 2008 by matthewmcvickar
A "free browser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7, IE6, and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process."
browser
webdevelopment
webdesign
windows
software
utilities
IE
may 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Microsoft: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
may 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Invaluable for troubleshooting web development in IE. Wish I'd known about this before today!
CSS
IE
webdevelopment
windows
software
utilities
browser
bugs
may 2008 by matthewmcvickar
OSNews: The 25 Year Old BSD Bug
may 2008 by matthewmcvickar
"Despite his initial reaction, he decided to dig deeper into this case, and he uncovered a bug that had been sitting in the code of all BSDs (including Mac OS X), including a lot of old releases. He confirmed the bug was already in 4.2BSD, released in Aug
unix
software
programming
history
may 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Zach Poff: Software
april 2008 by matthewmcvickar
A variety of homespun video presentation software for all your art installation needs.
video
film
presentation
software
osx
movies
apps
april 2008 by matthewmcvickar
The MacPorts Project
april 2008 by matthewmcvickar
"The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system."
mac
opensource
osx
software
unix
utilities
april 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Red Sweater Blog: It Should Be Free?
april 2008 by matthewmcvickar
On the price of software.
business
economy
free
money
pricing
software
technology
april 2008 by matthewmcvickar
And now it’s all this: Address Books on two Macs
march 2008 by matthewmcvickar
In case I ever need this.
mac
software
march 2008 by matthewmcvickar
FFXporter: Free Flickr eXporter iPhoto Plugin
february 2008 by matthewmcvickar
If, for some reason, FlickrExport ever fails me.
software
osx
flickr
photography
free
february 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Sound on Sound: "Kieran Hebden: Recording Rounds"
february 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Kieran explains the importance of ideas, process, computers, and the mastering of technology that works when it comes to creating music. Loaded with great technical and system setup details.
audio
music
software
fourtet
interview
february 2008 by matthewmcvickar
funkatron.com : Assumptions and Mac browser share
january 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Firefox has more users, perhaps, than is commonly assumed. With Firefox 3 on the near horizon, this may shoot up even more.
firefox
mozilla
browser
software
mac
osx
january 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Global Moxie: Great Finish! Now Start Running
december 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Big Medium developer Josh Clarks talks about the many miles to go after completing the launch milestone, the importance of long and consistent hours, and the constant refinement of software development and support.
business
startup
software
webdevelopment
december 2007 by matthewmcvickar
[TxMt] removing line breaks
december 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Command to remove line breaks in TextMate.
textmate
osx
software
text
december 2007 by matthewmcvickar
The WebKit Open Source Project
december 2007 by matthewmcvickar
"WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications."
webdevelopment
software
opensource
apple
december 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Moody
december 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Tags music in iTunes on a grid of Calm -> Intense, Sad -> Happy.
itunes
osx
software
music
december 2007 by matthewmcvickar
ies4osx
november 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Run IE5, 5.5, 6, and 7 in OS X under X11 emulation. It actually works perfectly and installs in minutes with a few clicks.
IE
osx
software
webdevelopment
free
november 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Paparazzi!
november 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Free Mac software for taking webpage screenshots. Can capture the entire length of a page (beyond the "fold").
mac
software
webdevelopment
utilities
webdesign
osx
free
screenshot
november 2007 by matthewmcvickar
VectorMagic
november 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Create vector graphics files from any uploaded photo, painting, logo, etc. Save as EPS or SVG. Insanely cool.
vector
graphics
software
design
art
november 2007 by matthewmcvickar
urlgreyhot: OmniGraffle Wireframe Palette
october 2007 by matthewmcvickar
An excellent resource for wireframing.
webdevelopment
webdesign
design
free
gui
osx
software
wireframe
october 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Dubroy.com: Oversimplification is confusing (or, Don’t ask stupid questions)
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
We were just talking about this useless dialog box/warning/alert the other day.
photoshop
software
usability
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Dave Dribin's blog: The Bouncer
august 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Bouncing OSX dock icons to "The Blue Danube."
osx
hack
toy
software
august 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Many Tricks
june 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Some very useful utilities. Service Scrubber helps you manage OS X services, Witch turns command+tab into something that can access the windows of individual applications, not just the applications themselves.
osx
mac
free
software
utilities
apps
june 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Perian
october 2006 by matthewmcvickar
Play Divx, AVI, and tons of other video formats in QuickTime.
quicktime
video
software
osx
free
october 2006 by matthewmcvickar
dive into mark: Essentials, 2006 edition
august 2006 by matthewmcvickar
How to dive into Ubuntu with all the right software.
ubuntu
linux
software
august 2006 by matthewmcvickar
codepoetry: Do-It-Yourself Smart Radio Station
july 2006 by matthewmcvickar
Using iTunes' Smart Playlists to make a great radio station with Party Shuffle.
itunes
diy
software
mac
music
july 2006 by matthewmcvickar
Adium Book
july 2006 by matthewmcvickar
"A Mac OS X bridge application between Adium IM and Address Book used to search, manage and keep your contacts in sync. "
osx
software
adium
july 2006 by matthewmcvickar
Flickr: Photos Not in Sets
february 2006 by matthewmcvickar
Third-party script that shows you all of the photos not currently in sets on Flickr.
flickr
software
february 2006 by matthewmcvickar
What would Orwell do?
december 2005 by matthewmcvickar
Facebook a front for CIA data collection? Hmm.
business
software
web
politics
december 2005 by matthewmcvickar
Bricksmith
october 2005 by matthewmcvickar
"Bricksmith allows you to create virtual instructions for your Lego creations."
mac
free
diy
toys
software
october 2005 by matthewmcvickar
perl.com: Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize
june 2005 by matthewmcvickar
"Screen-scraping is the process of emulating an interaction with a Web site - not just downloading pages, but filling out forms, navigating around the site, and dealing with the HTML received as a result."
web
software
diy
june 2005 by matthewmcvickar
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