Month: August 2006

Flash nos­tal­gia, via Bernard.

The best darn sea salt on the plan­et. Via Micon.

A search engine that learns from your com­mu­ni­ty’s search behavior.

Jaiku is a phone book that dis­plays the real-time pres­ence and loca­tion of your contacts.

Mobile per­son­al media pub­lish­ing app for S60 phones.

“Old” but good post on using Back­pack with GTD. I’ve been exper­i­ment­ing quite a bit myself late­ly but am most­ly using it at work con­trary to Frank, who prefers to use it for per­son­al stuff.

More by Frank on GTD. I’m not real­ly into using Back­pack­’s tags for con­texts. But inter­est­ing nonetheless.

Mac­Manus observes that most web 2.0 apps out­side the US and UK are clones of suc­cess­ful con­cepts. This is also true for Dutch apps as it appears from this overview. For some types of apps (such as social net­work­ing) I can imag­ine a local ver­sion fulfills

A list of top hor­ror films, most­ly “mod­ern” titles.

Anoth­er list of top hor­ror movies, some good oldies in here.

A pret­ty decent intro­duc­tion to Sub­ver­sion for web design­ers and devel­op­ers. We use it at the office for revi­sion con­trol of design docs and code.

Bid­dulph writes up some thoughts on work­ing with thinglink. Fun stuff.

A col­lec­tion of high lev­el pat­terns for web 2.0 inter­op­er­abil­i­ty using thinglink as an exam­ple. Good intro­duc­tion to APIs for non-techs.

The Hip­ster PDA is a “great­ly sim­pli­fied device for cap­tur­ing and shar­ing infor­ma­tion” that is “vast­ly supe­ri­or” to any Palm.

“Real­ly Use­ful Prod­ucts do a 35 litre box that fits the 12 month­ly and 31 dai­ly tick­ler files with quite a bit of room to spare. The box takes A4 and Foolscap files on rails mould­ed into the box”