Ok, Tweeters what is the coolest thing you got over the holidays? - read at least 4 books
- learn a new programming language
- write an iphone app
- work on more projects with friends
- learn to meditate
- reduce debt by at least 30%
- reduce power use/carbon footprint
- get rid of more useless junk in my place
- go to more social networking events
For christmas I got myself a Time Capsule now I’m in a backup frenzy.
Here’s my setup:
I have a G5 iMac that I use to store all my photos, music, videos. I use a Mac Book Pro as my primary use computer, and Teresa uses an iBook. Setting up the time machine backup was a snap. Just plug-in the time capsule and a way we go. But Teresa brought up a good point, what if there’s a fire? So I found a solution to keep our photos safe.
I back up our photos to flickr with PhotoCopy. It lets you organize your photos in iPhoto and keep them synced with flickr. The one bad thing I have to say about it is that for some reason it doesn’t sync deletions.
The third part of the syncing is having the same photo library on the three different machines. For that I’m using Chronosync. I keep the working copy on my new time capsule, and sync between the other iPhoto instances.
So far it’s working but got lots to backup.
Merry Christmas everyone, Here’s a classic redone with the voices from scrubs.
BTW a really good special and soundtrack :D,
In my update of my blog to WP 2.7, I decided to try out the Wordpress iPhone app.
Staring the app revealed a screen that allows me to add a blog to manage. My first attempt at adding my blog failed. The app told me I had to enable the remote publishing. That was helpful because it would have taken some googling otherwise to find this out.
The next screen showed me a list of articles that are published. This is handy for quick editing. The app also saves drafts locally which is helpful when, as i did, you get a phone call in the middle of writing.
One cool thing is uploading images from your phone is a snap.
The bad things about this app aren’t really its fault. The iPhone keyboard can be terrible for long posts.
My recommendation, install this app for quick edits and photo uploads, but save the long posts for the web.
I just upgraded my blog to WP 2.7 and decided it might be a good time to just start from scratch.
So far I’m loving the new wp admin console. Favorite feature so far is the QuickPress which is just a quick Title, Content, Tags box on the dashboard for quick publishing.
As of today digg has category check boxes for customizing digg stories. You can un-check topics you do not wish to see. This is a great step in the direction of making digg hit more target audiences. But I believe it can be taken farther.
I propose a more advanced customization system which will allow for more functionality in the future. What I’m thinking about is a system very similar to Smart Folders on Macs. Basically users will be able to create smart topics of their own which will show up in the topic bar.
How would this work?
To conceptualize this you’ll need to step outside of the box for a minute. Right now, when a box is checked it shows everything in that category. If I don’t want to hear about Election or Political stories currently, I would need to un-check those categories on the customize page. Now lets say I don’t care about all the stories as a whole, but I want to hear about a specific candidate (Joe Smith). With the smart filter feature I would create a Smart Feature topic with the following options:
Filter Name: Joe Smith
Rules
Where Title contains ‘Joe Smith’ and
Category is ‘US Elections 2008′ and
Media Type is News
This will give me another topic in my category bar with the ‘Joe Smith’ topic under Custom. Then only Election stories about Joe Smith will show up on my front page and I can navigate to the custom category page at will.
This will be great and all but it raises the question about what if I have ‘US Elections 2008′ checked also. In this case, all election stories will show up on the All page, but I will still have my Custom filter to view only those topics specifically.
This functionality leads to a broader user base because suddenly the news that the users see can be manipulated to topics of their interest. This also gives the topics functionality back to the users, as users can create topics that interest them. Instead of the topics that Digg employees think they want.
It seems that some friends and/or family have been looking for the site I keep my wish list. It’s kept at wishlistr.com here. Previously the wish list was syndicated to my blog, but I realized that items would be added, but never removed. So I took it off the site.
I recently checked out this web application LastGraph . This site creates a pretty sweet graph from your music stats on Last.fm. If you don’t know already Last.fm is a site that, when set up correctly, will take music you listen to on your computer/ipod and keep track of it. Then you can create cool statistical analysis of your music like this graph.
Here it is in it’s full pdf version. Lastfm graph pdf
This is a small bookmarklet I wrote to Submit a story to digg. What’s different about it is it uses the <title></title> of the page as the story title, and any text you selected as the story description.
The link will open the submit digg window in a new window or tab. just drag the link below onto your bookmarks toolbar folder.
