hat tip @davatron5000.
A large selection of RSS feed that make it very easy to stay up to date with the latest additions to Netflix. I especially love the "New Choices to Watch Instantly" feed.
Netflix RSS Feeds »
September 1, 2010 -
Plex »
August 31, 2010 -
Plex is a beautiful OS X-based media center that seamlessly pulls content from your iTunes, iPhoto and Aperture libraries in real time, has plugins to included additional content sources like Netflix and Hulu. Plex will also import metadata for the music and movies in your library,
The inclusion of iOS apps enables streaming to iPhone, iPads and iPod Touches and allows those same devices to act as remotes for the media server.
The inclusion of iOS apps enables streaming to iPhone, iPads and iPod Touches and allows those same devices to act as remotes for the media server.
How a startup should leverage a personal assistant »
August 30, 2010 -
Adobe BrowserLab »
August 30, 2010 -
Adobe's service that provides a nice array of browser screenshots of any URL entered, significantly easing cross-browser tests.
Khan Academy »
August 29, 2010 -
"The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Despite being the work of one man, Salman Khan, this 1600+ video library is the most-used educational video resource as measured by YouTube video views per day and unique users per month. We are complementing this ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World."
Interactive Sketching Notation »
August 27, 2010 -
"The interactive sketching notation is an emerging visual language which affords the representation of interface states and event-based user actions. Through a few simple and standardized rules, what the user sees (drawn in greys and blacks) and does (drawn in red) are unified into a coherent sketching system. This unification of both interface and use, intends to enable designers to tell more powerful stories of interaction."
Gitbox »
August 26, 2010 -
"a Mac OS X graphical interface for Git version control system. In a single window you see branches, history and working directory status."
jQuery.Html5form »
August 25, 2010 -
HTML5 includes form validation as part of the spec, so once it's fully supported we won't need to use JavaScript to validate form input. Sadly, this is only supported by Webkit browsers at the moment (Safari & Chrome). This plugin addresses the gap for the other major browsers with a single line of code.
Getting to Work with CSS3 Power Tools »
August 24, 2010 -
A compilation of the more interesting attributes available in CSS3 and how they can be used in modern browsers.
CSS Media Queries: Bees Knees Or Spawn of Satan? »
August 24, 2010 -
A straightforward breakdown of the state and usefulness of CSS Media Queries that pulls together the various points of contention.
Scott Adams Tries to Build an Eco-Friendly House »
August 24, 2010 -
A fun and yet, oddly informative opinion piece on building a green home by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert.
He notes at one point, "I went into the process thinking that green homes were ugly because hippies have bad taste. That turns out to be nothing but a coincidence." This is followed up by an explanation as to the causes of said ugliness - color of the roof, lack of windows, little-to-no grass etc.
This is well worth the read, even if you don't plan to build a green home any time soon.
He notes at one point, "I went into the process thinking that green homes were ugly because hippies have bad taste. That turns out to be nothing but a coincidence." This is followed up by an explanation as to the causes of said ugliness - color of the roof, lack of windows, little-to-no grass etc.
This is well worth the read, even if you don't plan to build a green home any time soon.
keep your spot… »
August 20, 2010 -
Mollie Johanson's quirky DIY bookmark project. This opens up a lot of ideas for interesting placeholders and should inspire some neat projects for kids and adults.
Andy’s Most Useful Knots »
August 20, 2010 -
I've had this desire at the back of my mind to re-learn a lot of the knots I've forgotten since my days as a Boy Scout. I'm rather embarrassed that I remember so few of them actually. Andy's collection of knots looks like a great place to start digging in.
Bonus: knots look like a fun way to keep my hands busy while watching TV.
Bonus: knots look like a fun way to keep my hands busy while watching TV.
Creating a Table of Contents in OmniGraffle with AppleScript »
August 20, 2010 -
I've been waiting for this functionality for a very long time and I truly hope the folks at Omni include this as a feature in an upcoming release. Until then, we can thank the fine people at UNITiD for this AppleScript.
PaintbrushJS »
August 18, 2010 -
"A lightweight browser-based image processing library".
JavaScript's come a long way. This library provides a wealth of image manipulation capabilities, including tints, blur, noise, sepia and grayscale - all handled by the browser. What a sweet way to ensure you don't have to reprocess your images the next time you redesign your site.
JavaScript's come a long way. This library provides a wealth of image manipulation capabilities, including tints, blur, noise, sepia and grayscale - all handled by the browser. What a sweet way to ensure you don't have to reprocess your images the next time you redesign your site.
Omnigraffle Sitemap Generator from Sitemap.xml »
August 18, 2010 -
A handy little script that will walk through a site's sitemap.xml and map it out in OmniGraffle.
Mocktails »
August 17, 2010 -
A small collection of mocktails (non-alcoholic cocktails), by a maker of tonic.