Electric Jellyfish disappointment
2·Jul·08
Why are all the really nice Threadless tees always damn well sold out the second they’re released!!
Oh – apparently this one’s a re-print… but it’s still sold out again immediately!!
fuzzyness
Life is wasted on the living (Douglas Adams)
Google learns to crawl Flash
2·Jul·08
I’m not sure if this is a good thing or not… Google has learned to index the contents of Flash files.
Next level huh??!
28·Jun·08
It amused me no end just now to spot the album cover that iTunes had decided should be displayed alongside Eddie Halliwell‘s seminal Mixmag compilation mix ‘Next Level Bosh‘.
Heh heh. I’d go in and correct it, but somehow I like this one better!
FreeAgent
16·Jun·08
I’m really loving the look of FreeAgent, an online application for small businesses and freelancers.
I currently use several separate tools to manage my web design business – Blinksale for invoicing, and Tick for time tracking, for instance. Both great tools, but both separate and discreet. I don’t have any means of drawing the data they produce together, in order to get the big picture of my business finances.
FreeAgent is different – it tries to handle everything – invoicing, time tracking, expenses, tax, VAT calculations, etc. Now I’m normally very wary of anything purporting to do it all – normally a sign of doing none of it very well! However, I’m quite taken with what I’ve seen so far. Certainly having all that data in one place does give you a clear picture of your financial health, all in one place.
Two things currently stop me from signing up and committing whole-heartedly:
- Subcontracters logging into the system to track their time get to see everything.
- It’s not possible to quickly see cool comparison graphs or tables for actual vs budgeted time/money
I’m told by Ed Molyneux, founder and CEO of FreeAgent, that theses features are being worked on as I speak, and will be rolled out during the summer. Excellent! Once that happens, I’ll be signing up as fast as my mouse will let me.
South Park full episodes
8·Jun·08
Really pleased (and surprised) to see the makers of South Park have a website featuring every single episode of South Park – for free!
There seem to be some small contractual obligations to figure out in the UK, but apparently that’ll be solved very soon. Just brilliant… I hated South Park for so long, only to very much see the light during one drunken weekend at my good friend Pinky Moo’s (always the barometer of good taste and sense).
Email address submitted – I eagerly await the reply.
Beware the scrap of paper on the floor
8·Jun·08
Sounds like an ancient Chinese proverb: “beware scrap of paper on floor, could be butterfly.”
Ummm…. it’d be a pretty crap proverb I grant you, but it’d certainly resonate well with our situation at the moment..
ExpanDrive
6·May·08
I’ve been struggling with finding a way to work on files on a remote server, as if they were local. I use Textmate as my text editor and although I can control-click remote files in Transmit and open them up in Textmate, it takes a fair bit of trickery and patience to open up files in tabs, as if part of the same project, and be able to work on them properly — without dropping the connection and typically having to start the whole frustrating process again.
So it’s with great delight I’ve discovered this little gem: ExpanDrive.
Set up the details of your remote server, then ExpanDrive logs you in, mounting the remote server as a drive in the Finder to use as you would locally. Drag any number of files to Textmate, open them up in tabs, and (so far at least) it never drops the connection. Absolutely marvellous!
I’ll use this most often at the moment working with remote ExpressionEngine templates saved as text files on the server which I’ve previously been unable to do with any ease. I did try using Coda to do this but it drives me to distraction every time I trial it – I just don’t get Coda at all!
However, with all the dabbling I’ve been doing with Ruby on Rails recently I can see a time coming soon when I’ll be doing all my development locally in Subversion and deploying to a production server anyway. But for now, ExpanDrive looks mighty cool to me.
BBC iPlayer meets Spinal Tap
12·Apr·08
I’ve been really enjoying the BBC iPlayer on my iPhone recently. I was surprised to learn that it works perfectly well through the internet browser on the Wii too!
What’s even better is that, in homage to ‘The Tap‘, the volume control on the player itself goes all the way to 11.
I love those little details : )
Chef Jovis
3·Apr·08
Cat in a Hat. Our lovely (read: vicious) cat Jovis getting all cheftastic on our, er… ass. Or something.
Thriving Office
2·Apr·08
“Home businesses know they must seem successful to become successful. So they play Thriving Office while on the phone. This valuable CD, which is filled with the sounds people expect to hear from an established company, provides instant credibility.”
Excellent! http://www.thrivingoffice.com
Speedy Gonzales?
24·Mar·08
Nice service to check your internet broadband download speed courtesty of SpeakEasy.
Strange how my ISP tell me my speed should be up to 8MB yet I seem to be getting 1.8MB at best…
BusySync saves my sanity
18·Mar·08
I’ve been trying to achieve the Holy Grail of keeping my Google Calendar and my desktop iCal calendar in sync with each other.
Of course it’s easy to subscribe to gCal within iCal itself, but having 2-way editing and sychronisation certainly isn’t built-in to either system.
I purchased a Spanning Sync licence almost a year ago, for the promise of 2-way syncing. Not once in the whole past year have I managed to get it to work. I’ve sent error reports a-plenty (the developers have been very helpful in trying to diagnose the problem) plus reset sync data on my Mac more times than I care to think about.
So you can possibly have even half a chance of imagining my sheer JOY at discovering BusySync. Get this: this amazing application (currently just $19.95 per computer – that’s just £9.93 in old money…) syncs both. Both ways. Completely editable calendars either way. No fuss. No messing.
Bliss. It’s the only way I can describe it. THANK YOU BusySync!
UPDATE: Seems I’m not the only one to be loving at a bit of BusySync action…
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