I played around with Pipes and aside from loosely matching iTunes songs with YouTube videos or loosely matching Flickr photos with NY Times articles, I’ve yet to ‘get it’.
The interface itself is pretty – and seemingly powerful and simple. Reminiscent of Microsoft’s Visual Basic or Apple’s Automator. But in the end, Pipes is chartjunk – [...]
“This site neither supports or endorses Hampsterdance.com. In fact just typing HampsterDance.com, in this authors viewpoint, should automatically have a person banned from internet usage for a year. How can that song even be in my head when I haven’t even heard it in a decade?” – Bill Bradbury
I got a preview of the latest thing in ’social network’ sites today, PeopleAggregator (here by ‘PA’). I’m not impressed. Though, as Steve Borsch points out – it is awe-inspiring. Everything and the kitchen sink is in there – blogs, people, groups, audio, video, photos, links, search engines, everything!
Like MySpace, and Friendster before it, [...]
We recently bought Brenda a Mac Mini. She’s the banker of the house, paying the bills, balancing the accounts, etc. She also depends on Quicken. Doesn’t everyone?
So, our 4 year old gets to inherit the ol’ PC laptop so he can play his Tonka Trucks Firefighter game (which, BTW, is only $3 at Menards!). No [...]
A while ago I talked a bit about A List Apart’s new design and how they chose to go with an incredibly wide fixed-width layout.
A recent discussion on the Webdesign-l list brought this up and the debate ensued as to whether or not it was a good idea. To me, it’s just annoying, so I [...]
As a liberal, I tend to favour a bit of political correctness. I’m not a fan of native american charicatures on baseball jerseys. When we do send holiday cards, we send New Years cards rather than Christmas cards. But even I find some political correctness taken a tad too far at times.
While researching some software [...]
One of the must frustrating parts of our home-grown CMS we’ve been building is looking for a text-area replacement to allow folks to edit basic HTML via their web browser. There are as many inline HTML editors as there are CMSs. And, just like CMSs, 99% of them appear to be crap.
I went through a [...]
A bit of Friday fun…Wolfenstein Enemy Territory is a “free, stand alone, downloadable multiplayer game in which players wage war as Axis of Allies in team based combat.” For Mac OSX only and being distributed via BitTorrent.
Everyone’s up in arms about Apples new iPod Shuffle, their sub-$100 USB Flash-based mp3 player. It’s been described as “flawed” and the lack of screen elicited responses like, “isn’t a mediocre screen better than none at all?”.
This is the classic glass half empty or half full problem. Either:
the world sucks, everyone makes [...]
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