Archive for June, 2007

Friday Link-o-Rama

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Worst 007 gadgets

bad bond gadget

Personal rockets

The gallery doesn’t seem to show anyone actually flying with these things, but I still want one.

Rocket Pack

Feed the head

I really have no idea if there is a point to this.

Fun with electricity

Fun with electricity

Old Computers

Highly nerdy.

Commodore 64

The Duct Tape Server

Duct tape server

AT-AT Pushchair

I want a real one.

Dramatic Chipmunk

Not much to say about this one. Just a chipmunk being dramatic.

New Web Inspector

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

This looks useful:

As some of you saw last week at WWDC, we have a brand new version of the Web Inspector. We know that a lot people have found the current Web Inspector useful, and we have gotten a lot of feedback and sugestions about how to make it even better. And boy have we been listening! We have taken the current Web Inspector and have added a bunch of new features that you will find invaluable for web development:

  • Completely redesigned interface, no longer a transparent panel
  • Works with any WebView inside third-party applications, not just Safari
  • Supports docking to the inspected page
  • Shows all resources included by the page, sorted into categories
  • Global search through all text-based resources
  • Console to show errors and warnings with live JavaScript evaluation
  • Network panel showing resource load timeline along with HTTP request and response headers
  • Resource size and load time summary graph in the Network panel
  • Syntax highlighted HTML source
  • Inline JavaScript and HTML error reporting

New Inspector

Rails sucks

Thursday, June 21st, 2007
Logger debug message consisted entirely of “cocksucker.” Took it out. Seemed minimally informative, and impolite.

Excellent.

Many chairs

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Chairs

Found here

Really bad name for a shop

Friday, June 15th, 2007

This has to be a fake, surely no-one could be stupid enough to name a shop ‘kidsexchange’?

Kidsexchange

Friday Link-o-Rama

Friday, June 15th, 2007

A Collection of Funny Signs from Around the World

Hardon

Gamekeeper flees from hippo

Flee!

Stair Drawers

Cool idea

Elaborate costumes

Death star costume

Japanese Modded Vans

Japanese modded vans

Darth Vader being an Asshole

Hilarious.

WriteRoom - Full Screen Text Editing

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Full screen text editing, an interesting idea in WriteRoom:

Write room

If I did much writing (other than code) I think this would be really useful.

HTML Entity Character Lookup

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Leftlogic has released a HTML entity search based on how the entity looks:

The lookup searches the html entities for matches to the searched character based on how your character looks. For instance, the letter c would match © and ¢ entity, because of the way they look.

Excellent, but it is even better because there is a Mac OSX Dashboard widget available too!

Secure Data Destruction

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Hilarious:

It’s usually cheaper to send it to yourself via Citylink for destruction, and then again via Parcelforce for disposal.

Peter Corlett in London.pm, via Stig.

Resizeable text areas for Firefox

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

I was most envious of the resizable text areas new to Safari 3. so I went in search of a plugin for Firefox to do the same and I found one!

So far it has worked really well. I’m surprised this isn’t a bundled feature of most web-browsers, the number of times I have cursed a tiny text field is huge.