April 29, 2010 by Screenbeard
Plug In! Previously I wrote about some plugins I love for making writing posts easier. This is a list of the little plugins I love that just do cool things around the place. They’re all useful, and most are ones I use on both sites I maintain. I would highly recommend them to anyone.
April 23, 2010 by Screenbeard
The decisions Google makes don’t normally annoy me, except in small geeky ways that most people would pfft at, and you may well pfft at me now but they are seriously annoying me now.
The Google Master Plan http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/ / CC BY 2.0On one hand we have the recent integration of Buzz into Gmail and Google Reader. The upshot being:
November 18, 2009 by Screenbeard
An example of my proposalI don’t want a separate app where I have to gather all my friends and influencers in one place all over again — I have that in Twitter.
What I want from you is a way to flag a user (secretly) as someone whose opinion has aligned with mine in the past, so that when they say “I love this new movie”, I’ll be reasonably certain that I will too. And if I could flag someone’s opinion as wrong((that’s what we’re all thinking right?)) most of the time, then I will know that when they say “I love this song”, not to bother clicking through to it. It might mean that some of the users in my stream have slightly darker or lighter updates so I can tell at a glance which ones I’ve flagged as trustworthy or mostly wrong.
Heck, just being able to easily see that someone is in a “trusted” private Twitter list with a glance at my main stream would be double handy. Do that.
Thank you for listening. If you do this, you will win the world.
PS. to all the people I follow: I’m not talking about any of you. I think all of you have fantastic taste. It’s those other people I worry about…
November 18, 2007 by Screenbeard
A month and a half ago I was contacted by a Martin Vrabel, who sent me this:
email from Martin Vrabel of Taskee.comHi Joshua,I found out you are writing about webdesign on your blog. I though you may be interested in writing about the new URL related task management tool for web designers — Taskee.
Taskee is a hosted website task management tool for small and medium size webdesign companies. Taskee simplifies website task management communication process and makes it easier and cheaper to collaborate during website testing process.
You can find more info and demo at www.taskee.com
Sorry for this email if its not worth your attention or was interrupting you.
Kind Regards,
Martin Vrabel
This was my first ever request for comment about any product, so I dutifully starred it in Gmail and promised myself I’d look at it when I could. Well, the wait is over. I thought I’d set it up today and give it a go. This post is part review, but mostly feedback at the moment as the product is only at version 0.3 and not ready for prime time.
May 14, 2006 by Screenbeard
This post was my response to a question asked by Ronnie Swafford on Newsvine: Why was he, a Windows Programmer with no obvious need for a Mac so drawn to get an Apple computer?
I answered (and am yet to see if he responds), but noticed what a huge comment I’d written and thought it could be a blog entry in itself. So here is why you want a Mac.
You want a Mac because Apple seems to have a philosophy that says, “do what must be done to make this a positive, well rounded experience”.
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