Posted by: chibimagic on: March 23, 2009
Twitterrific is named after “terrific”, fine. But it’s a completely horrible un-terrific name and makes me think for 5 minutes every time I try to spell it. Terrific’s key consonants follow an alternating single-double-single pattern: t-rr-f. So does Twitter: t(w)-tt-r. Twitterrific doubles the t in terrific. So the corresponding alternating pattern would be double-single-double: twitteriffic. [...]
Posted by: chibimagic on: March 19, 2009
Since the iPhone SDK came out a year ago, Apple seems to have completely abandoned the little niceties of iPhone web app development. They’ve had support for apple-touch-icon.png and <link rel=”apple-touch-icon” /> for a while for making web clippings from MobileSafari. Some time later, they added apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png and <link rel=”apple-touch-icon-precomposed” /> so you’re not forced [...]
Posted by: chibimagic on: March 17, 2009
It’s cold outside There’s no kind of atmosphere I’m all alone, more or less Let me fly far away from here Fun fun fun, in the sun sun sun! I wanna lie Shipwrecked and comatose Drinking fresh mango juice Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes Fun fun fun, in the sun sun sun! Fun fun [...]
Posted by: chibimagic on: March 13, 2009
I hate these little spammy share links that show up everywhere now. Sure, the individual icons are kind of cute, but overall they’re ugly and annoying for a variety of reasons. One, it shows you don’t know who your readers are. Are they the type of person that’s more likely to have a membership on [...]
Posted by: chibimagic on: March 12, 2009
I realized that the other solution was less than ideal. Every time I downloaded a new podcast or listened to an old one, all the tracks would change, and they would all have to be recopied to my iPhone. So! New! Improved! AppleScripting! tell application “iTunes” my setTrack(“Mac OS Ken”, 1) my setTrack([Apple podcast 1], [...]
Posted by: chibimagic on: March 11, 2009
I have a smart playlist in iTunes called “(Podcasts)” that contains all the podcasts I have not yet listened to. I have a preferred podcast listening order: Mac OS Ken, Apple/Mac podcasts, technology podcasts, news podcasts, tips podcasts, language podcasts, and general interest/trivia podcasts. I realized I was spending way too much time reordering the [...]
Posted by: chibimagic on: March 10, 2009
The iPhone is the ultimate jogging companion. Listen to music, track your time, and call for help when things seem sketchy. Now if only credit cards and keys would hurry up and merge with cell phones already.
Posted by: chibimagic on: March 10, 2009
I am angry at this whole movement to give up on CSS and “just use tables.” They peg the maximum amount of time you should spend on making a layout work in CSS at 47 minutes. Um, hello? How many CSS properties are there that even deal with positioning? display, position, float. Three. If you [...]
Posted by: chibimagic on: March 4, 2009
I rock at set!
