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Pure Data — PD Community Site
9 days ago by robertogreco
"Pd (aka Pure Data) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. It is the third major branch of the family of patcher programming languages known as Max (Max/FTS, ISPW Max, Max/MSP, jMax, etc.) originally developed by Miller Puckette and company at IRCAM. The core of Pd is written and maintained by Miller Puckette and includes the work of many developers, making the whole package very much a community effort.
Pd is free software and can be downloaded either as an OS-specific package, source package, or directly from CVS. Pd was written to be multi-platform and therefore is quite portable; versions exist for Win32, IRIX, GNU/Linux, BSD, and MacOS X running on anything from a PocketPC to an old Mac to a brand new PC. Pd can run on smarphones thanks to projects like libpd and RjDj. It is possible to write externals and patches that work with Max/MSP and Pd using flext and cyclone."
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Pd is free software and can be downloaded either as an OS-specific package, source package, or directly from CVS. Pd was written to be multi-platform and therefore is quite portable; versions exist for Win32, IRIX, GNU/Linux, BSD, and MacOS X running on anything from a PocketPC to an old Mac to a brand new PC. Pd can run on smarphones thanks to projects like libpd and RjDj. It is possible to write externals and patches that work with Max/MSP and Pd using flext and cyclone."
9 days ago by robertogreco
Gmvault: gmail backup
14 days ago by robertogreco
"Backup all your emails on disk.
Use the full sync mode to backup your entire gmail account in a unique directory. Your email backup repository can then be easily tar and moved from one machine to the other.
Update your backup in minutes.
Gmvault can run a quick sync mode regularly (ie. every day) to keep your backup up to date.`
Restore emails in any Gmail acc.
With the restore command Gmvault can recreate your gmail mailboxes in any Gmail account. All attributes such as Gmail labels are preserved and recreated. With restore, you will recover your Gmail account exactly as it was.
Handle all Gmail IMAP hiccups.
Even being the world best ever email service, Gmail and especially its IMAP service is not without bugs. Gmvault handles all these issues to provide the smoothest experience to the user. Gmvault deals with the most common issues and always let the user with an uncorrupted email database."
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Use the full sync mode to backup your entire gmail account in a unique directory. Your email backup repository can then be easily tar and moved from one machine to the other.
Update your backup in minutes.
Gmvault can run a quick sync mode regularly (ie. every day) to keep your backup up to date.`
Restore emails in any Gmail acc.
With the restore command Gmvault can recreate your gmail mailboxes in any Gmail account. All attributes such as Gmail labels are preserved and recreated. With restore, you will recover your Gmail account exactly as it was.
Handle all Gmail IMAP hiccups.
Even being the world best ever email service, Gmail and especially its IMAP service is not without bugs. Gmvault handles all these issues to provide the smoothest experience to the user. Gmvault deals with the most common issues and always let the user with an uncorrupted email database."
14 days ago by robertogreco
Way - Coco & Co
10 weeks ago by robertogreco
"In way, two strangers learn to speak."
"Way is a two-player online game where anonymous strangers speak and collaborate with puppetry."
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"Way is a two-player online game where anonymous strangers speak and collaborate with puppetry."
10 weeks ago by robertogreco
Texts
february 2012 by robertogreco
"Texts is a new kind of editor for creation of text structure and content. Books, articles and blog posts written once in Texts can be processed and published in many formats"
publishing
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osx
mac
windows
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twitter
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markdown
february 2012 by robertogreco
VoodooPad from Flying Meat
january 2012 by robertogreco
"VoodooPad is a place to write down your notes and thoughts. Ideas, images, lists, passwords, your mom's apple pie recipe. Anything you need to keep track of and organize. VoodooPad will grow with you without getting in the way. Drag and drop folders, PDFs, applications, or URLs into VoodooPad, and they will link up just like on the web. And with powerful search, nothing will be lost or out of reach."
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january 2012 by robertogreco
iExplorer - Formerly iPhone Explorer, is an iPhone browser for Mac and PC
january 2012 by robertogreco
"iExplorer, formerly called iPhone Explorer, lets you use an iPhone or iPad in disk mode, like a flash drive. iExplorer is an iPhone browser or iPad file explorer that runs on Mac & PC that lets you browse the files and folders on your iPhone as if it were a normal USB flash drive or pen drive. You can use the easy drag-and-drop methods to add or remove files and folders from the iPhone."
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january 2012 by robertogreco
Finally... A Text Editor That Speaks MultiMarkdown!
january 2012 by robertogreco
"MultiMarkdown Composer is a text editor for Mac that is designed from the ground up around the MultiMarkdown Syntax. It is designed to make writing in MultiMarkdown even easier than it already is, with automatic syntax highlighting, built in previews, easy export to any format that is supported by MultiMarkdown, and more!
By using an editor built around MultiMarkdown, you can focus on the actual writing, rather than worrying about formatting and styles. Let the computer deal with that when you’re ready to export your document to another format."
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By using an editor built around MultiMarkdown, you can focus on the actual writing, rather than worrying about formatting and styles. Let the computer deal with that when you’re ready to export your document to another format."
january 2012 by robertogreco
Bean: An OS X Word Processor
december 2011 by robertogreco
"Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that is designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is lean, fast and uncluttered. It starts up quickly, has a live word count, and is easy on the eyes. Also, Bean is available free of charge.
MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people, but sometimes you just want the right tool for the job. That is Bean's niche.
Bean has some limitations: it doesn't do footnotes or use stylesheets and is only partially compatible with Word's file formats. Also, it allows in-line graphics, but not floating graphics."
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MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people, but sometimes you just want the right tool for the job. That is Bean's niche.
Bean has some limitations: it doesn't do footnotes or use stylesheets and is only partially compatible with Word's file formats. Also, it allows in-line graphics, but not floating graphics."
december 2011 by robertogreco
Fireplace
december 2011 by robertogreco
"Type words to interact with Fireplace or just sit back and enjoy. The logs burn to ashes in about 30 minutes each.
I really wanted a big-pixeled fireplace to keep in my bedroom and thought other people might like it, too. If you have any feedback or photos, you can contact me here.
I hope you enjoy it.
— Ted Martens
Some basic commands to try: log, match, marshmallow, smore, eat, hotdog, fireworks, photo, paper"
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I really wanted a big-pixeled fireplace to keep in my bedroom and thought other people might like it, too. If you have any feedback or photos, you can contact me here.
I hope you enjoy it.
— Ted Martens
Some basic commands to try: log, match, marshmallow, smore, eat, hotdog, fireworks, photo, paper"
december 2011 by robertogreco
The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face | NeuroTribes
november 2011 by robertogreco
"Once software was developed that enabled Kare to start brainstorming digitally, she mined ideas from everywhere: Asian art history, the geeky gadgets and toys that festooned her teammates’ cubicles, and the glyphs that Depression-era hobos chalked on walls to point the way to a sympathetic household. The symbol on every Apple command key to this day — a stylized castle seen from above — was commonly used in Swedish campgrounds to denote an interesting sightseeing destination. [Note: See comment by Lennart Regebro below for an even older citation of the design.]
Kare’s work gave the Mac a visual lexicon that was universally inviting and intuitive. Instead of thinking of each image as a tiny illustration of a real object, she aimed to design icons that were as instantly comprehensible as traffic signs."
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Kare’s work gave the Mac a visual lexicon that was universally inviting and intuitive. Instead of thinking of each image as a tiny illustration of a real object, she aimed to design icons that were as instantly comprehensible as traffic signs."
november 2011 by robertogreco
Raven: A new beautiful new browser for the Mac
october 2011 by robertogreco
"Despite plenty of competition in the market, Web browsers tend to look and act pretty much the same. Raven is a new contender out today for OS X which takes a fresh approach.
Raven’s key unique offering is that it offers customised interfaces for a wide range of popular websites. Visiting its built-in Web App Shop allows you to access dedicated ‘apps’ for the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn and even The Next Web."
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Raven’s key unique offering is that it offers customised interfaces for a wide range of popular websites. Visiting its built-in Web App Shop allows you to access dedicated ‘apps’ for the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn and even The Next Web."
october 2011 by robertogreco
Mac App Store - CalmDown
october 2011 by robertogreco
"Every day your computer stresses you out.
Maybe it's time it tried to help you relax."
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Maybe it's time it tried to help you relax."
october 2011 by robertogreco
The Genius of Steve Jobs: Marrying Tech and Art - WSJ.com
august 2011 by robertogreco
"But one look at the Mac & you could tell something was different. The white screen alone seemed revolutionary, after years of reading green text on a black background. And there were typefaces! I had been obsessed with typography since my grade-school years; here was a computer that treated fonts as an art, not just a clump of pixels. The then-revolutionary graphic interface made the screen feel like a space you wanted to inhabit, to make your own. To paraphrase Le Corbusier, the Mac was a machine you wanted to live in.<br />
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Before long I was creating page layouts for student-run philosophy journals; I designed research tools using the visionary Hypercard application…<br />
<br />
Looking back now, I realize that beneath all those surface obsessions, a theme was running through my interests like an underground river, & it didn't fully surface until my mid-20s: the sense that the most fertile and engaging space in our culture lay at the intersection between new technology and the humanities."
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<br />
Before long I was creating page layouts for student-run philosophy journals; I designed research tools using the visionary Hypercard application…<br />
<br />
Looking back now, I realize that beneath all those surface obsessions, a theme was running through my interests like an underground river, & it didn't fully surface until my mid-20s: the sense that the most fertile and engaging space in our culture lay at the intersection between new technology and the humanities."
august 2011 by robertogreco
Radi
august 2011 by robertogreco
"Radi is a Mac app that can produce pretty much any kind of visual content for the web. Images, animations, vector graphics, video clips, realtime visual effects, JavaScript programming...<br />
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With Radi, getting your visual ideas on the web is easier than ever. Radi creates web pages that comply to modern standards and can be easily embedded in any kind of site.<br />
<br />
Heard about HTML5 yet? It's the new standard for the web. Apple loves it. Microsoft fully supports it. Google says it rocks. And Radi lets you enjoy it without learning to code. Radi is designed from the ground up to help you create content that will take full advantage of HTML5 features."
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<br />
With Radi, getting your visual ideas on the web is easier than ever. Radi creates web pages that comply to modern standards and can be easily embedded in any kind of site.<br />
<br />
Heard about HTML5 yet? It's the new standard for the web. Apple loves it. Microsoft fully supports it. Google says it rocks. And Radi lets you enjoy it without learning to code. Radi is designed from the ground up to help you create content that will take full advantage of HTML5 features."
august 2011 by robertogreco
Lifehacker Pack for Mac: Our List of the Best Free Mac Downloads
august 2011 by robertogreco
"Looking for a few great, free apps to beef up your Mac? We've got you covered with our annual Lifehacker Pack for Mac. Here are the best OS X downloads for better productivity, communication, media management, and more."
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august 2011 by robertogreco
show and tell - storify.com [Luke Neff]
july 2011 by robertogreco
"a cursory guide to the desktop pictures of my most frequently used spaces"
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july 2011 by robertogreco
iA Writer for Mac on Vimeo
june 2011 by robertogreco
"iA Writer for Mac is a digital writing tool that will turn you into a shark following a blood trail. We tried our best to create an interface that works so seamlessly that all your thoughts go into the text instead of the program. It is built on three principles:<br />
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1. Form = Idea: iA Writer is a writing tool as hard and as uncustomizable as a mechanical type writer. It has no preferences. It is how it is. It works like it works. Love it or hate it.<br />
2. Thought goes into writing, not using: Focus mode allows me to think, spell and write at one sentence at a time.<br />
3. Minimal input, maximum output: It automatically formats semantical entities such as headlines, lists, bold, strong, block quotes. Writer works without mouse.<br />
<br />
Visit itunes.apple.com/us/app/ia-writer/id439623248?mt=12# for more information "
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1. Form = Idea: iA Writer is a writing tool as hard and as uncustomizable as a mechanical type writer. It has no preferences. It is how it is. It works like it works. Love it or hate it.<br />
2. Thought goes into writing, not using: Focus mode allows me to think, spell and write at one sentence at a time.<br />
3. Minimal input, maximum output: It automatically formats semantical entities such as headlines, lists, bold, strong, block quotes. Writer works without mouse.<br />
<br />
Visit itunes.apple.com/us/app/ia-writer/id439623248?mt=12# for more information "
june 2011 by robertogreco
Daring Fireball: Demoted
june 2011 by robertogreco
"the key line was when Steve Jobs, describing iCloud replacing iTunes as your digital hub, said, “We’re going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device.”<br />
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iCloud is the new iTunes. The tethered digital hub is dead; long live the wireless digital hub. Apple sees iCloud as shaping the next ten years the way the iTunes-on-your-Mac/PC digital hub shaped the last ten.<br />
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This is a fundamentally different vision for the coming decade than Google’s. In both cases, your data is in the cloud, and you can access it from anywhere with a network connection. But Google’s vision is about software you run in a web browser. Apple’s is about native apps you run on devices. Apple is as committed to native apps — on the desktop, tablet, and handheld — as it has ever been.<br />
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Google’s frame is the browser window. Apple’s frame is the screen. That’s what we’ll remember about today’s keynote ten years from now."
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<br />
iCloud is the new iTunes. The tethered digital hub is dead; long live the wireless digital hub. Apple sees iCloud as shaping the next ten years the way the iTunes-on-your-Mac/PC digital hub shaped the last ten.<br />
<br />
This is a fundamentally different vision for the coming decade than Google’s. In both cases, your data is in the cloud, and you can access it from anywhere with a network connection. But Google’s vision is about software you run in a web browser. Apple’s is about native apps you run on devices. Apple is as committed to native apps — on the desktop, tablet, and handheld — as it has ever been.<br />
<br />
Google’s frame is the browser window. Apple’s frame is the screen. That’s what we’ll remember about today’s keynote ten years from now."
june 2011 by robertogreco
Create Flash Games with Stencyl
june 2011 by robertogreco
"Welcome to StencylWorks, 2D game creation done right. StencylWorks isn't your average game creation software; it's a gorgeous, intuitive toolset that integrates seamlessly with the Stencyl ecosystem.<br />
Exclusive collaboration and sharing features will have you making Flash games in a flash. For free."
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Exclusive collaboration and sharing features will have you making Flash games in a flash. For free."
june 2011 by robertogreco
The Spinning Beach Ball of Death
may 2011 by robertogreco
"The spinning wait cursor or spinning disc pointer — where your mouse pointer becomes the rotating color wheel or "spinning beach ball" seen above — generally indicates that your Mac® is engaged in a processor-intensive activity. For example, applying a Gaussian blur to an image in Adobe® Photoshop® is a processor-intensive activity.<br />
In most cases, the "beach ball" disappears within several seconds. However, there are cases when the "beach ball" spins protractedly, a condition colloquially known as "The Spinning Beach Ball of Death" (SBBOD).<br />
This FAQ — derived from a corresponding chapter in our Troubleshooting Mac OS X e-book— discusses solving common SBBOD problems, both generally and in Web browsers."
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In most cases, the "beach ball" disappears within several seconds. However, there are cases when the "beach ball" spins protractedly, a condition colloquially known as "The Spinning Beach Ball of Death" (SBBOD).<br />
This FAQ — derived from a corresponding chapter in our Troubleshooting Mac OS X e-book— discusses solving common SBBOD problems, both generally and in Web browsers."
may 2011 by robertogreco
Three MacOS Tips and One Vista Whimper - James Fallows - Technology - The Atlantic
february 2011 by robertogreco
"Simply put, your machine works in a "virtual" memory space that is bigger (much bigger) than the physical memory made of silicon chips. The electronic data in the CPU has to access data in the physical memory, so when that gets filled (or even gets close to that), your system automatically moves stuff onto pieces of the hard disk called "swap" ... and stuff is moving in and out of swap all the time.<br />
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Get it? And for now, here's a trick that readers with Macs might try if they have seen this phenomena and wonder what's up:<br />
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Open a terminal and type: echo admin_password | sudo -b -S sh -c "du -sx /"<br />
<br />
... and it will all happen happily in background... or,<br />
<br />
Open a terminal and type: sudo -b -S sh "du -sx /"<br />
<br />
... and you'll just have to type in the password manually... or,<br />
<br />
Just open a terminal as the administrator and type: du -sx /<br />
<br />
... and wait for the result."
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<br />
Get it? And for now, here's a trick that readers with Macs might try if they have seen this phenomena and wonder what's up:<br />
<br />
Open a terminal and type: echo admin_password | sudo -b -S sh -c "du -sx /"<br />
<br />
... and it will all happen happily in background... or,<br />
<br />
Open a terminal and type: sudo -b -S sh "du -sx /"<br />
<br />
... and you'll just have to type in the password manually... or,<br />
<br />
Just open a terminal as the administrator and type: du -sx /<br />
<br />
... and wait for the result."
february 2011 by robertogreco
Mixxx | Free Digital DJ Software
february 2011 by robertogreco
"Start DJing with Mixxx: Mixxx is free, open source DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes.<br />
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Set your Mixes Free: Our advanced mixing engine gives you complete control over your live mixes. Hot cues, looping controls, and our high fidelity EQs let you mix and remix with more control. Create your own MP3 DJ mix today!<br />
<br />
Open Source means Freedom: Why invest your time building your music library with expensive commercial DJ software, when it costs you a hundred dollars to upgrade every year? Through our open source license, Mixxx will always be free, and you'll never be locked in."
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Set your Mixes Free: Our advanced mixing engine gives you complete control over your live mixes. Hot cues, looping controls, and our high fidelity EQs let you mix and remix with more control. Create your own MP3 DJ mix today!<br />
<br />
Open Source means Freedom: Why invest your time building your music library with expensive commercial DJ software, when it costs you a hundred dollars to upgrade every year? Through our open source license, Mixxx will always be free, and you'll never be locked in."
february 2011 by robertogreco
Think Different - Wikipedia
february 2011 by robertogreco
"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
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february 2011 by robertogreco
Apple’s Diabolical Plan to Screw Your iPhone « iFixit Blog
february 2011 by robertogreco
"Apple is switching to a new type of tamper-resistant screw. This is not a standard Torx, and there are no readily available screwdrivers that can remove it. This isn’t the first time they’ve used this type of screw—it first appeared in the mid-2009 MacBook Pro to prevent you from replacing the battery—and Apple is using a similar screw on the outer case of the current MacBook Air. This screw is the primary reason the 11″ MacBook Air earned a lousy repairability score of 4 out of 10 in our teardown last October.<br />
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Apple chose this fastener specifically because it was new, guaranteeing repair tools would be both rare and expensive. Shame on them."<br />
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"So go ahead, set your iPhone free with our iPhone 4 Liberation Kit! Rid your phone of those terrible Pentalobe screws forever. The $9.95 kit includes a Pentalobe driver, 2 replacement PHILLIPS screws, and a regular #00 Phillips screwdriver."
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Apple chose this fastener specifically because it was new, guaranteeing repair tools would be both rare and expensive. Shame on them."<br />
<br />
"So go ahead, set your iPhone free with our iPhone 4 Liberation Kit! Rid your phone of those terrible Pentalobe screws forever. The $9.95 kit includes a Pentalobe driver, 2 replacement PHILLIPS screws, and a regular #00 Phillips screwdriver."
february 2011 by robertogreco
What is BetterTouchTool?
february 2011 by robertogreco
"BetterTouchTool lets you define tons of gestures for your Macbooks Trackpad, your MagicMouse and your MagicTrackpad. In addition to that it brings lots of new stuff to MacOS like Windows 7 like window snapping, window switchers etc......"
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february 2011 by robertogreco
AppCleaner
february 2011 by robertogreco
"AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps.<br />
Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily.AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them.<br />
Simply drop an application onto the AppCleaner window. It will find for the related files and you can delete them by clicking the delete button."
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Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily.AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them.<br />
Simply drop an application onto the AppCleaner window. It will find for the related files and you can delete them by clicking the delete button."
february 2011 by robertogreco
Frank Chimero - The Setup
january 2011 by robertogreco
"A person only flails around in regards to their rig when they don’t have a clear idea of what constitutes their work. Suitability and fit is paramount, and one is never going to find what they’re looking for if they don’t know what they need. So, I looked at my work, I watched how I used my computer for a day, and found out all I do is draw vector shapes, surf the web, listen to music, and bash words out in plain text. That’s hardly the type of activity that requires computational brute force, though I understand there are some of you out there that require just that. Not me though. Nope.<br />
And these computers? As much as I love fiddle-faddling with the damn things, I mostly just want to forget I have one and get on with saying stuff and making things. I realized that I valued freedom more than power, flexibility more than blazing speed. I want the choice of being able to be mobile, and to carry around my whole setup with me at all times without much inconvenience."
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And these computers? As much as I love fiddle-faddling with the damn things, I mostly just want to forget I have one and get on with saying stuff and making things. I realized that I valued freedom more than power, flexibility more than blazing speed. I want the choice of being able to be mobile, and to carry around my whole setup with me at all times without much inconvenience."
january 2011 by robertogreco
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Inside Macintosh [via: http://www.notesfromandy.com/2010/12/20/thank-you-caroline-rose/ via: http://hello.typepad.com/hello/2010/12/thank-you-caroline-rose.html]
january 2011 by robertogreco
"Caroline…couldn't have been more different than previous writer. As soon as I began to explain first routine, she started bombarding me w/ questions. She didn't mind admitting it when she didn't understand something, and she wouldn't stop badgering me until she comprehended every nuance. She began to ask me questions that I didn't know the answers to, like what happened when certain parameters were invalid. I had to keep the source code open on screen of my Lisa when I met w/ her, so I could figure out answers to her questions while she was there. <br />
<br />
Pretty soon, I figured out that if Caroline had trouble understanding something, it probably meant that the design was flawed. On a number of occasions, I told her to come back tomorrow after she asked a penetrating question, & revised the API to fix the flaw that she had pointed out. I began to imagine her questions when I was coding something new, which made me work harder to get things clearer before I went over them w/ her."
mac
history
productivity
programming
computers
andyhertzfeld
1982
carolinerose
questioning
understanding
questions
design
learning
from delicious
<br />
Pretty soon, I figured out that if Caroline had trouble understanding something, it probably meant that the design was flawed. On a number of occasions, I told her to come back tomorrow after she asked a penetrating question, & revised the API to fix the flaw that she had pointed out. I began to imagine her questions when I was coding something new, which made me work harder to get things clearer before I went over them w/ her."
january 2011 by robertogreco
LastPass - Password Manager, Form Filler, Password Management
december 2010 by robertogreco
"LastPass is a password manager that makes web browsing easier and more secure."
passwords
passwordmanagement
utilities
security
encryption
tools
software
mac
osx
windows
linux
safari
firefox
chrome
googlechrome
ie
ios
blackberry
windowsmobile
android
symbian
from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Freedom - Windows and Mac Internet Blocking Software
december 2010 by robertogreco
"Freedom is a simple productivity application that locks you away from the internet on Mac or Windows computers for up to eight hours at a time. Freedom frees you from distractions, allowing you time to write, analyze, code, or create. At the end of your offline period, Freedom allows you back on the internet. You can download Freedom immediately for 10 dollars through either PayPal or Google Checkout."
productivity
software
mac
windows
distraction
attention
focus
applications
via:robinsloan
from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
4 (More) Tools for Teaching Kids to Code
december 2010 by robertogreco
"We wrote a story earlier this fall with 4 suggestions for some of our favorite programming tools aimed at kids. And that list is worth repeating: the graphical programming language Scratch, the programmable robotics of Lego Mindstorms, the 3D programming environment Alice, and the Android App Inventor.<br />
<br />
But in the spirit of National Computer Education Week and the hopes that we can encourage more kids not just to use technology but to build technology, here's a list of 4 more: Kodu, Small Basic, Arduino, and Squeak"
programming
education
children
coding
tools
scratch
kodu
microsoft
arduino
android
edg
srg
tcsnmy
lego
legomindstorms
alice
androidappinventor
smallapp
squeak
glvo
xbox360
mac
windows
via:thelibrarianedge
from delicious
<br />
But in the spirit of National Computer Education Week and the hopes that we can encourage more kids not just to use technology but to build technology, here's a list of 4 more: Kodu, Small Basic, Arduino, and Squeak"
december 2010 by robertogreco
Alfred App
december 2010 by robertogreco
"Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. Whether it's maps, Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia, you can feed your web addiction quicker than ever before.<br />
<br />
* Increase your productivity by launching apps with shortcuts<br />
* Instant access to web searches, bookmarks & more<br />
* Browse and play music from your iTunes library quickly<br />
* Perform actions – copy, move & email files & folders<br />
* Ward off RSI – skip using the mouse with easy shortcut"
osx
productivity
software
mac
applications
search
shortcuts
from delicious
<br />
* Increase your productivity by launching apps with shortcuts<br />
* Instant access to web searches, bookmarks & more<br />
* Browse and play music from your iTunes library quickly<br />
* Perform actions – copy, move & email files & folders<br />
* Ward off RSI – skip using the mouse with easy shortcut"
december 2010 by robertogreco
Daring Fireball: Masquerading as Mobile Safari to Get Websites to Serve HTML5 Video to Safari on Mac OS X
november 2010 by robertogreco
"whenever you run into a video player that claims to require Flash Player, invoke the Develop → User Agent → Mobile Safari 3.2.2 — iPad command. This reloads the current page, but with Safari claiming to be Mobile Safari running on the iPad. It does not change the way that Safari renders the page — i.e., it doesn’t make the desktop Safari render pages with zooming or layout differences to mimic the way Mobile Safari renders pages on the iPad. All it does is tell Safari to identify itself as Mobile Safari to the server. The result is that if the server does any sort of user-agent detection to figure out whether to serve video using Flash or HTML5, you’ll get the HTML5 version.<br />
<br />
This trick makes video work in Safari on Mac OS X — with no Flash — from Flickr, Vimeo embeds, TED, MSNBC, and probably any other site that offers video that works on the iPad. This doesn’t work for all video, but it should work for any video that works on the iPad."
macosx
osx
safari
howto
html5
video
mac
browsers
flash
hacks
daringfireball
from delicious
<br />
This trick makes video work in Safari on Mac OS X — with no Flash — from Flickr, Vimeo embeds, TED, MSNBC, and probably any other site that offers video that works on the iPad. This doesn’t work for all video, but it should work for any video that works on the iPad."
november 2010 by robertogreco
Kid Pix: The Early Years
november 2010 by robertogreco
"One day in 1988 while I was using MacPaint, the wonderful paint program that came with the Macintosh, my 3-year-old son Ben asked to try using the program. I was surprised at how quickly he got the knack of using the mouse and how easily he was able to select tools. The problem was that he didn't have total control of the mouse and would occasionally (like every five minutes or so) pull down a menu and bring up a dialog box that he couldn't dismiss without being able to read. Everything was fine as long as I was in the room, but if I stepped out for a few minutes I would come back and find Ben kicking on the floor in frustration. This was not what I had in mind for his introduction to the computer."
via:britta
craighickman
kidpix
evergreenstatecollege
reedcollege
computers
childhood
parenting
programming
software
edtech
education
mac
history
drawing
graphics
art
nostalgia
from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Review - Drag, Drop, Review.
november 2010 by robertogreco
"If you are doing iPhone UI design, Review is the quickest way to judge your mockups on an actual device. Review will accurately display your mockups on both Retina and older displays."
ui
ux
webdesign
development
macosx
mac
ipod
iphone
applications
mockup
mobile
software
prototyping
testing
iphonedev
apps
from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
HTML5 Audio Safari Extension // ShaunInman.com
november 2010 by robertogreco
"I subscribe to a number of blogs that post audio files on a regular basis (like composer of Battlestar Galactica and The Walking Dead, Bear McCreary and a number of game music sites). Connor McKay’s YouTube5 Safari extension addresses most videos I encounter and Open in Google Chrome works for the rest but while video might demand attention audio is ambient. It doesn’t makes sense to keep a second browser open just for background noise but I couldn’t find a similar extension for audio. So I made one.<br />
<br />
HTML5 Audio Safari extension replaces a number of Flash-based audio players with the HTML5 audio element."
extension
plugin
safari
macosx
mac
html5
flash
shauninman
audio
from delicious
<br />
HTML5 Audio Safari extension replaces a number of Flash-based audio players with the HTML5 audio element."
november 2010 by robertogreco
Pastebot — Tapbots
november 2010 by robertogreco
"Pastebot is a powerful clipboard manager that stores text & images copied from your iPhone/iPod Touch. Organize, apply filters to, and copy clippings to be pasted or sent to other apps."
ipad
iphone
applications
pastebot
clipboard
productivity
software
mac
osx
copy
utilities
sync
from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Delibar, Delicious Mac client
october 2010 by robertogreco
"Delibar is a full featured Delicious and Pinboard Mac client. Delibar focuses on giving Mac OS X users an easy and quick tool for searching, managing and sharing their bookmarks. Delibar will be your best friend while using Delicious or Pinboard!"
delibar
del.icio.us
applications
osx
macosx
mac
software
pinboard
bookmarking
bookmarks
socialnetworking
from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript | Cult of Mac
october 2010 by robertogreco
"He felt that the computer was going to change the world & it it was going to become what he called “the bicycle for the mind.” It would enable individuals to have this incredible capability that they never dreamed of before…<br />
<br />
What makes Steve’s methodology different from everyone else’s is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do – but the things that you decide not to do. He’s a minimalist.…<br />
<br />
Normally you will only see a handful of software engineers who are building an operating system. People think that it must be hundreds and hundreds working on an operating system. It really isn't. It's really just a small team of people. Think of it like the atelier of an artist…<br />
<br />
[Japanese standards are just different than ours. If you look at Apple and the attention to detail. The “open me first,” the way the box is designed, the fold lines, the quality of paper, the printing — Apple just goes to extraordinary lengths."
apple
business
stevejobs
mac
design
interview
size
groupsize
teams
managment
administration
lcproject
focus
minimalism
johnsculley
organizations
tcsnmy
computers
efficiency
via:kottke
japan
muji
experience
packaging
management
from delicious
<br />
What makes Steve’s methodology different from everyone else’s is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do – but the things that you decide not to do. He’s a minimalist.…<br />
<br />
Normally you will only see a handful of software engineers who are building an operating system. People think that it must be hundreds and hundreds working on an operating system. It really isn't. It's really just a small team of people. Think of it like the atelier of an artist…<br />
<br />
[Japanese standards are just different than ours. If you look at Apple and the attention to detail. The “open me first,” the way the box is designed, the fold lines, the quality of paper, the printing — Apple just goes to extraordinary lengths."
october 2010 by robertogreco
Hibari: A Mac Twitter client with keyword filtering, muting, inline saved search results, inline conversations, tweet lookup, and more
august 2010 by robertogreco
"* Block Keywords: Hibari blocks tweets you don't want to see based on keywords you choose. You can also block all retweets. Learn more »<br />
* Mute Users: No more stressing about whether to follow someone—in Hibari, you can temporarily mute any user if their tweets go overboard, saving you from having to unfollow. Learn more »<br />
* Inline Saved Search: Hibari interleaves your favorite search results into your home timeline so you never miss a thing. Your less important searches stay tucked away in the search timeline. Learn more »<br />
* Inline Images: Image links from Twitpic, YFrog, and other services are displayed as thumbnails in your timeline, saving you from visiting the webpage just to see what the image is about.<br />
* Tweet Lookup: Trying to remember what somebody tweeted? Use the search field in the toolbar to look up tweets and users in your timeline.<br />
* Inline Conversations: Explore threads of replies without ever leaving your timeline."
osx
macosx
mac
twitter
filtering
search
hibari
applications
from delicious
* Mute Users: No more stressing about whether to follow someone—in Hibari, you can temporarily mute any user if their tweets go overboard, saving you from having to unfollow. Learn more »<br />
* Inline Saved Search: Hibari interleaves your favorite search results into your home timeline so you never miss a thing. Your less important searches stay tucked away in the search timeline. Learn more »<br />
* Inline Images: Image links from Twitpic, YFrog, and other services are displayed as thumbnails in your timeline, saving you from visiting the webpage just to see what the image is about.<br />
* Tweet Lookup: Trying to remember what somebody tweeted? Use the search field in the toolbar to look up tweets and users in your timeline.<br />
* Inline Conversations: Explore threads of replies without ever leaving your timeline."
august 2010 by robertogreco
Hemisphere Games — Osmos
august 2010 by robertogreco
"Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack.
Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax… good things come to those who wait.
Progress from serenely ambient levels into varied and challenging worlds. Confront attractors, repulsors and intelligent motes with similar abilities and goals as you."
osmos
osx
ipad
iphone
mac
macosx
flow
videogames
games
gaming
toplay
physics
ambient
windows
applications
from delicious
Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax… good things come to those who wait.
Progress from serenely ambient levels into varied and challenging worlds. Confront attractors, repulsors and intelligent motes with similar abilities and goals as you."
august 2010 by robertogreco
Craighton Berman: Where is my digital version of the desk blotter, the back of a receipt, or painter’s palette?
august 2010 by robertogreco
"The digital world lacks these kind of informal places for scribbling things to remember in the short term. There are probably thousands of note-taking applications out there, meant to capture small bits of information—but I have yet to encounter any that match the spontaneity of the tangible world’s solutions, or the casual ability to place bits of info in a visual manner. Where is my digital version of the desk blotter, the back of a receipt, or painter’s palette?" <br />
<br />
[Sent him an email pointing to a few examples that approach the "digital version of the desk blotter, the back of a receipt, or painter’s palette."<br />
<br />
Desktastic for Mac OS X<br />
http://www.panic.com/desktastic/<br />
<br />
Edgies for Mac OS X<br />
http://www.oneriver.jp/Edgies/index_e.html<br />
<br />
The Sugar UI (on the OLPC) shows clipboard items (from copy-paste) on the side.<br />
http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=gallery&page=media_02<br />
http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=gallery&page=gallery]
digital
craightonberman
informal
software
computing
interface
ui
ux
mac
macosx
sugar
olpc
destastic
edgies
from delicious
<br />
[Sent him an email pointing to a few examples that approach the "digital version of the desk blotter, the back of a receipt, or painter’s palette."<br />
<br />
Desktastic for Mac OS X<br />
http://www.panic.com/desktastic/<br />
<br />
Edgies for Mac OS X<br />
http://www.oneriver.jp/Edgies/index_e.html<br />
<br />
The Sugar UI (on the OLPC) shows clipboard items (from copy-paste) on the side.<br />
http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=gallery&page=media_02<br />
http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=gallery&page=gallery]
august 2010 by robertogreco
Flash is Broken on the Mac: The Flash Wall of Shame - OS X Daily
august 2010 by robertogreco
"If you’re looking for a sure-fire way to meltdown your Mac browser with some Flash, check out BB 2.0, the collaborative music project, where you’re supposed to play various YouTube videos to create your own music… fancy idea but I can’t play more than 8 videos at a time on my Mac without whatever browser becoming totally unresponsive, with Firefox fairing the worst and requiring a Forced Quit to return to sanity (for the record, I can play them all on a relatively weak Windows Netbook next to me, in any browser)."<br />
<br />
[I really need to upgrade to Snow Leopard so I can Install BashFlash: http://www.bashflash.com/ (bookmarked back in February)]
flash
macosx
firefox
safari
crashing
chrome
googlechrome
mac
osx
adobe
adobeflash
from delicious
<br />
[I really need to upgrade to Snow Leopard so I can Install BashFlash: http://www.bashflash.com/ (bookmarked back in February)]
august 2010 by robertogreco
Apple and DRM, the Elephant in the Classroom « The Spicy Learning Blog
august 2010 by robertogreco
"Dear Innovative Educators,
apple
drm
ipad
iphone
ipodtouch
mac
music
ebooks
tcsnmy
schools
education
august 2010 by robertogreco
Notational Velocity
july 2010 by robertogreco
"NOTATIONAL VELOCITY is an application that stores and retrieves notes.
osx
macosx
mac
simplenote
applications
free
freeware
notetaking
writing
july 2010 by robertogreco
Echofon
july 2010 by robertogreco
"Never Read a Tweet Twice: Echofon automatically keeps unread tweets in sync between your computer, your iPhone and your iPad.
echofon
iphone
ipod
twittertools
twitter
freeware
applications
osx
mac
browser
socialmedia
software
facebook
firefox
extension
plugin
communication
tools
july 2010 by robertogreco
$11,000 for the First Apple Portable Computer! The Real Cost of Apple Products - What's the Big Deal?
april 2010 by robertogreco
"On the eve of Apple's iPad launch, we thought it would be interesting to see whether the cost of the iPad really is an 'unbelievable price' compared to previous Apple product launches.
visualization
infographics
inflation
infographic
statistics
apple
computers
mac
money
prices
gadgets
comparison
hardware
ipod
iphone
ipad
april 2010 by robertogreco
When and How to Reset your Mac’s System Management Controller (SMC) - OS X Daily
march 2010 by robertogreco
"You’ve tried rebooting, you’ve zapped the PRAM, you’ve done it all, but your Mac is still behaving strangely. What next? In certain circumstances, try resetting your Mac’s System Management Controller (SMC). This is sometimes necessary to restore normal lower level system functionality to your Mac, particularly if you’re having these types of problems:"
mac
osx
macosx
troubleshooting
march 2010 by robertogreco
Yes. Another Backup Lecture. | 43 Folders
march 2010 by robertogreco
"The Holy Trinity... Seriously: * If it’s not automated, it’s not a real backup. * If it’s not redundant, it’s not a real backup. * If it’s not regularly rotated off-site, it’s not a real backup."
merlinmann
apple
macosx
mac
osx
howto
diskwarrior
daringfireball
backup
harddrive
march 2010 by robertogreco
Daring Fireball: An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox
march 2010 by robertogreco
"However, I find terrific value in SuperDuper’s model. SuperDuper creates a bootable clone of your startup drive. With Time Machine, if your startup drive goes kaput, you’ve got to go through a lengthy restore process (and, in the case of hardware failure on the kaput drive, you need an extra bootable volume to restore to). With SuperDuper, you just plug in the clone, reboot, and you’re back up."
superduper
diskwarrior
dropbox
backup
macosx
mac
timemachine
harddrive
utilities
daringfireball
hardware
recovery
osx
march 2010 by robertogreco
ONull - Vector Generator
march 2010 by robertogreco
"ONull is an image based Vector Generator for Mac OSX. It allows the user to convert images into rasterized vector graphics. This tool was developed to give graphic designers the ability to transform small images from the Internet into printable and editable graphics.
onull
raster
vectors
visualization
macosx
osx
mac
converter
design
freeware
generator
processing
java
via:migurski
images
illustrator
graphics
software
pdf
photography
march 2010 by robertogreco
Riverfold Software - Clipstart
february 2010 by robertogreco
"Clipstart complements your photo application to give you a place that is designed for home movies. Import your movies, tag, search, and upload with one click to Flickr and Vimeo. You can even quickly upload a trimmed portion of a movie without needing to save a new copy. If you have dozens or hundreds of short movies from a Flip or video camera, Clipstart provides the workflow to finally make sense of them."
video
software
mac
vimeo
movies
macosx
osx
february 2010 by robertogreco
Panic Blog » ShrinkIt 1.1
february 2010 by robertogreco
"ShrinkIt is a simple, small, Panic-internal tool (for Mac OS X Snow Leopard) that will automate the process of stripping needless metadata from PDFs by re-saving them using Apple’s PDF processor. For app resources and icons that aren’t using high-end Illustrator features, this should be lossless — Apple’s PDF code is not compressing anything, just removing cruft. Simply drop a bunch of files (not folders) onto it — such as the contents of your app’s Resources folder — to have it find the PDFs and do its magic. The original files will be renamed with the prefix “_org_” for backup safety. That’s it!"
shrinkit
adobe
mac
osx
optimization
utilities
pdf
freeware
panic
software
applications
macosx
compression
free
february 2010 by robertogreco
Here, File File! - Access all of your files from your iPhone!
february 2010 by robertogreco
"Add your Mac: Install the Here, File File server app, connect to your Wifi network, and the iPhone app will find your Mac automatically.
iphone
applications
mac
osx
sharing
filesharing
february 2010 by robertogreco
BashFlash - A different kind of Flash blocker for Snow Leopard
february 2010 by robertogreco
"BashFlash lets you stop the Flash plug-in dead in its tracks, letting your new-fangled Mac cool down, use less power, and give you more time to do whatever it is you do. Probably blog or tweet or something.
flash
osx
mac
free
utility
applications
safari
plugins
software
freeware
browser
battery
chrome
plugin
macosx
bashflash
february 2010 by robertogreco
SnagIt Beta – Possibly The Most Advanced Screen Capture Freeware Tool [Mac]
january 2010 by robertogreco
"On my continuing quest searching for the best screen capture freeware for Mac, I stumbled into this free app called SnagIt (Beta) – which comes from the same company that created Jing."
snagit
screencapture
software
applications
mac
osx
freeware
tcsnmy
january 2010 by robertogreco
rc3.org - Is the iPad the harbinger of doom for personal computing?
january 2010 by robertogreco
"What bothers me is that in terms of openness, the iPad is the same as the iPhone, but in terms of form factor, the iPad is essentially a general purpose computer. So it strikes me as a sort of Trojan horse that acculturates users to closed platforms as a viable alternative to open platforms, and not just when it comes to phones … The question we must ask ourselves as computer users is whether the tradeoff in freedom we make to enjoy Apple’s superior user experience is worth it. … If Apple is really successful, it’s likely that other companies will be more emboldened to forsake openness as well. … The other question that arises for me is whether, in the the long term, the computer you hold in your hand really matters. … A future where applications and data in the cloud are more our own than the computers on our desks seems bizarre, but I can see things playing out that way."
via:preoccupations
ipad
apple
open
cloudcomputing
cloud
decentralization
mac
freedom
computers
applications
iphone
creativity
computing
hardware
technology
future
closed
january 2010 by robertogreco
Here's to the crazy ones: a decade of Mac OS X reviews
january 2010 by robertogreco
From page four via Daring Fireball: "The reason is simple: the desktop is the one “place” on the computer that every user knows how to get to. People don’t even think of it as existing in the file hierarchy (though, of course, it does); to them it’s a location in the physical sense, and items placed within it behave almost as if they were real objects. A file can be “lost” in the file hierarchy — irretrievably, as far as novice users are concerned — but finding something on the desktop will never be any worse than rummaging through the messiest real-life junk drawer. And that bargain, that task of keeping things neat by placing, removing, and arranging, is something that people are comfortable with, and that their innate human abilities are tailored for."
johnsiracusa
arstechnica
design
macosx
history
business
usability
osx
software
mac
desktop
desktops
january 2010 by robertogreco
Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher [see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugin_(software)]
december 2009 by robertogreco
"Goal: an easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools.
annabelscheme
design
osx
linux
windows
opensource
photoshop
panoramic
panorama
photography
software
mac
hugin
photos
freeware
free
december 2009 by robertogreco
ClickToFlash
october 2009 by robertogreco
"Ever wanted to get rid of the scourge of the web that is Adobe Flash, but still retain the ability to view Flash whenever you want? With ClickToFlash, you can! Using ClickToFlash, all of those icky Flash bits that have infected most webpages on the internets are replaced with a nice, smooth gradient and the word "Flash" set in a nice, pleasing font. When you want to view the Flash, just click on it!"
internet
web
flash
browser
plugin
plugins
safari
macosx
youtube
clicktoflash
mac
osx
adobe
utility
webkit
opensource
extension
october 2009 by robertogreco
Concentrate | Mac App | Eliminate Distractions
august 2009 by robertogreco
"Concentrate helps you work and study more productively by eliminating distractions.
gtd
via:hrheingold
software
mac
macosx
osx
timemanagement
concentration
distraction
productivity
attention
august 2009 by robertogreco
You Can't Innovate Like Apple — Product Management Training, Product Marketing Training by Pragmatic Marketing
july 2009 by robertogreco
"The point is not to go ask your customers what they want. If you ask that question in the formative stages, then you’re doing it wrong. The point is to go immerse yourself in their environment and ask lots of “why” questions until you have thoroughly explored the ins and outs of their decision making, needs, wants, and problems. At that point, you should be able to break their needs and the opportunities down into a few simple statements of truth. As Alan Cooper says, how can you help an end user achieve the goal if you don’t know what it is? You have to build a persona or model that accurately describes the objectives of your consumers and the problems they face with the existing solutions. The real benefit … is that unless you put a face and expectations on that consumer, then disagreements about features or product positioning or design come down to who can pull the greatest political will—rather than who has the cleanest interpretation of the consumer’s need.”"
via:preoccupations
design
experiencedesign
branding
development
marketing
mac
apple
process
productmanagement
innovation
howto
business
management
administration
interaction
experience
tcsnmy
ux
user
july 2009 by robertogreco
Daring Fireball: Creating Ogg Theora Files on Mac OS X With ffmpeg2theora
july 2009 by robertogreco
"ffmpeg2theora is the one tool I found that simply just works for transcoding to Ogg Theora. The downside to ffmpeg2theora is that it’s only available as a command-line tool." [another conversion tool here: http://systemsboy.com/2009/07/ogg-theora-converter.html]
ogg
ffmpeg2theora
conversion
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browser
codecs
quicktime
tutorial
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july 2009 by robertogreco
DeliciousSafari
june 2009 by robertogreco
"Use and create Delicious bookmarks from the Safari web browser"
via:preoccupations
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bookmarks
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browser
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macosx
extensions
mac
osx
freeware
plugin
june 2009 by robertogreco
LÖVE - Free 2D Game Engine
june 2009 by robertogreco
"LÖVE is an unquestionably awesome 2D game engine, which allows rapid game development and prototyping in Lua.
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games
gaming
graphics
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opensource
coding
linux
lua
programming
tcsnmy
mac
osx
windows
edg
june 2009 by robertogreco
Fever° Red hot. Well read. [much like the Snark Market concept "Compress into diamonds": http://snarkmarket.com/blog/snarkives/technosnark/compress_into_diamonds/index.html]
june 2009 by robertogreco
"Only $30 Your current feed reader is full of unread items. You’re hesitant to subscribe to any more feeds because you can't keep up with your existing subs. Maybe you've even abandoned feeds altogether.
rss
applications
mac
osx
iphone
aggregator
webapp
feeds
aggregation
feedreader
software
june 2009 by robertogreco
Hulu - Labs: Hulu Desktop
may 2009 by robertogreco
"Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that's optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu's entire library with just six buttons. For users without remotes, the application is keyboard and mouse-enabled. Hulu Desktop is a downloadable application and will work on PCs and Macs. It will initially launch as a beta product during which we plan to gather and incorporate user feedback to improve the service."
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software
mac
osx
windows
streaming
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freeware
desktop
video
television
tv
frontrow
may 2009 by robertogreco
Raph’s Website » The perfect geek age?
may 2009 by robertogreco
"Was being born in 1971 the perfect time to be born a geek? ... [long list of examples here] ... Looking back on it, it makes me feel a bit sorry for those born ten years later. And I can’t judge ten years earlier, but so much of that seemed to hit at the right age. Looking back at history, it seems like the last big waves of popular invention like this were decades ago. Teens with hot rods? Engineering in the 20s? I see my kids now, and they are so clearly getting the finished products of so much, not the products in the process of invention… Am I wrong?"
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web
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programming
geek
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raphkoster
mac
education
learning
culture
popculture
gamechanging
flux
google
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futureshock
starwars
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may 2009 by robertogreco
Password Gorilla
may 2009 by robertogreco
"The Password Gorilla helps you manage your logins. It stores all your user names and passwords, along with login information and other notes, in a securely encrypted file. A single "master password" is used to protect the file. This way, you only need to remember the single master password, instead of the many logins that you use."
via:preoccupations
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linux
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mac
osx
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may 2009 by robertogreco
FrontLine SMS on OLPC XO: Revolution You Can Run With - OLPC News
april 2009 by robertogreco
"By attaching a computer (Linux, Mac, or Windows) to a cell phone with a data cable and installing his (free, open source) software, Frontline SMS, that computer is turned into a messaging hub; sending and receiving text messages via the cell phone to hundreds of contacts."
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xo
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mac
osx
windows
sms
messaging
mobile
phones
server
data
opensource
texting
april 2009 by robertogreco
Prey: Y rastrea tu computador robado | bootlog
april 2009 by robertogreco
"Prey es una pequeña y muy, muy simple aplicación que recolecta un lote información de tu computador, y la envía a una casilla de correo que hayas definido previamente. La idea es que la instales en tu laptop para que cuando llegue el día — ojalá nunca — en que desaparezca el tarro, cuentes con más información para rastrearlo, ya sea usando el IP, el nombre de la red WiFi a la que esté conectado, o bien la foto del impostor."
software
chile
opensource
mac
osx
security
linux
tracking
scripts
april 2009 by robertogreco
DiskAid - Transfer Files betwen your Computer and your iPhone or iPod Touch. Disk Mode for your iPhone and iPod Touch.
april 2009 by robertogreco
"DiskAid is a tool (freeware) for PC and Mac which enables to use your iPhone or iPod Touch as external Disk. With DiskAid you can transfer files and folders via USB between your device and your Computer."
iphone
applications
diskaid
macosx
mac
osx
backup
storage
freeware
filesharing
april 2009 by robertogreco
f.lux: Better lighting for your computer
february 2009 by robertogreco
"F.lux fixes this: it makes your computer's lighting adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.
macosx
osx
mac
freeware
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sleep
via:tomc
february 2009 by robertogreco
Reinvented Software - Together for Mac OS X - Keep Your Stuff Together, Find It Again Instantly
february 2009 by robertogreco
"Together lets you keep everything in one place. Text, documents, images, movies, sounds, web pages and bookmarks can all be dragged to Together for safe keeping, tagged, previewed, collected together in different ways and found again instantly."
software
mac
osx
organization
tagging
productivity
library
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applications
together
notes
via:preoccupations
libraries
february 2009 by robertogreco
LÖVE - Free 2D Game Engine
january 2009 by robertogreco
"LÖVE is an unquestionably awesome 2D game engine, which allows rapid game development and prototyping in Lua. This project is constantly evolving and changes come and go, sometimes initiated by us and sometimes by the recommendations of others. If you have an idea on how to make the game engine better, it is greatly desired that you contact us and let us know what you think."
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linux
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opensource
mac
development
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lua
january 2009 by robertogreco
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