I just organized all my iPhone apps into a number of categories with a screen for each:
The first page is for utilities and commonly used apps. The second is for games. Third we have apps for finding places (Currently only Yelp and YPMobile.). Fourth is entertainment apps: Pandora, last.fm, Shazam, and YouTube. The fifth page contains social apps. Finally, the ghetto–apps which cannot be deleted but that I can’t imagine using.
First post from the WordPress app!
I had an epiphany today while using my Mac. I have a 13″ Macbook which gives me a widescreen aspect ratio with 1280×800 resolution. I have always had my dock in the default position until I realized something. Between the OSX menu bar, my Firefox titlebar, toolbar, and bookmark toolbar, I have virtually no vertical space to work with. It suddenly occured to me that I should move my dock to the side! I started on the left, but that was too visually distracting. I now have my dock on the right. I have gained about 20% of my vertical space. Who needs 1280 horizontal pixels for browsing? Not me.
One of my Twitter friends has made me curious about the Django web application framework. This basically sits on top of Python to make it easier to develop applications for the web. I decided to check into it myself. The first thing I have learned is that the documentation available for free is really amazing. I’m going through the free book right now, and learning tons along the way. I actually have an Associate’s Degree in programming, but, honestly, I don’t know any language well. I do have the basic concepts of programming down for the most part. I have been able to follow along with very little trouble. The comment system that is built into the book in which there is comment space for each paragraph is elegant and functional. It’s a major asset in a tight spot.
I have only recently noticed this although my experience with Twitter has been fairly limited until the last couple of weeks. It appears some devious spammers have learned of sites that track the number of times a given link is posted on Twitter (see Twitturly among others) and are taking full advantage of this by spamming their own links on the service. The Twitturly feed, which has mostly served as a fast-track for links that will soon appear on Digg and Reddit, has recently been hit with a number of links to a site that asks for your e-mail address in exchange for secret hints on how to last longer in sex. Personally, I find the Konami code has been the only secret I have ever needed in any walk of life (up, up, down down, left, right, left, right…).
I’m on something of a twitter kick today. This site takes your twitter username, looks at your location and current friends, and suggests new friends for you to add. It’s very cool and accurate!
I’m trying out a funky new theme. I kinda like it. I may have to tweak it a bit, though. Any thoughts?
I just purchased my first Mac a few weeks ago after approximately 15 years as a staunch PC user. I wanted a small laptop and didn’t care about gaming on the go. I was admittedly seduced by curiosity (not to mention that damn glowing Apple logo- Curse you vile temptress!). Here I am, not even two months into this crazy experiment and already with some startling results; the most startling is that I whole-heartedly prefer and would recommend a Mac to any computer user except a gamer.
What do you think of the new look? I was having some accessibility issues with the old theme.
Back from the dead! I’ve not been thinking much lately about the deep stuff, but I have been doing lots of web surfing. Here’s some of the cool stuff I’ve found. Read more »
