iPhone for Web Developers

July 3, 2007 – 8:00 pm

Apple developer documentation for iPhone web applications. [via Simon Willison]

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New Phones

June 30, 2007 – 11:15 am

Elizabeth Perry has my favorite iPhone image so far, from her watercolor sketchbook. And yes, I went and bought one last night. The one I get at the end of July will go to Cynthia.

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Information Software and the Graphical Interface

June 22, 2007 – 2:43 pm

Bret Victor discusses the ideas behind his 2007 Apple Design Award winning BART schedule Dashboard Widget in his essay Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface.

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No Inline Markdown, Please

April 18, 2007 – 11:04 pm

Daniel Jalkut mentions the support for Markdown in MarsEdit. I love Markdown, but I don’t want to install a Markdown output filter for WordPress.
What I’d like to see is an option to convert the post in MarsEdit to and from Markdown, so I can publish XHTML, and convert back to Markdown if I edit it [...]

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Maybe Richard Dawkins could have a walk-on role where he punches a priest.

January 11, 2007 – 9:26 pm

From McSweeney’s imagined user guide to the iPhone:
XVII. Using the iPhone to assist Nicole Kidman in playing a frankly commercial Mrs. Coulter in the new adaptation of The Golden Compass without losing the anti-Miltonian vibe or the stuff about the Magisterium.

I don’t know if that’s possible, considering they threw away Stoppard’s script, and let Mr. [...]

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Saturday Music: iTunes Playlists

November 11, 2006 – 1:41 pm

I recently turned my Civic into an iPod case. Navigating an iPod interface while driving isn’t a good idea, and neither is pressing skip over and over, so I need better playlists.

Jason Kottke’s discovery rule for things you haven’t heard in a long time (but haven’t skipped.)
Andy Budd’s rules for bubbling up newer materials, and [...]

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Everyday is Christmas

November 11, 2006 – 12:43 pm

Now that’s validation. And if you’re on MacOS X and haven’t checked out Todd’s XML tools, do so.

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iSight and Spimes

September 20, 2006 – 10:56 pm

Mark Nottingham looks at a barcoded bottle of wine, and the iSight embedded in a MacBook and thinks, Safari should be smart enough to automatically navigate to a page with details for that bottle (e.g., a map of where it was produced, its winery, tasting notes, and similar wines).
Hey, Mark, meet Bruce Sterling, who has [...]

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XML Nanny 2.0

July 17, 2006 – 7:34 pm

Todd’s released a new version of XML Nanny, his parsing and validation tool for Mac OS X. This new version supports an exhaustive list of validators: DTD, XML Schema, Relax NG (XML and simplified syntax), and Schematron.

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The DaVinci Mac

May 25, 2006 – 9:47 pm

It’s a cult with stock options. [ via Backup Brain ]

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Subscribing To hAtom Feeds With NetNewsWire

March 28, 2006 – 12:38 am

hAtom’s not useful until you have a way to get from a blog’s summary page to an Atom feed. Chris Casciano wrote an AppleScript wrapping xsltproc that reads an hAtom page, applies the hAtom2Atom.xsl transform, and hands the result back to NetNewsWire.
Note: Scott Reynen points out that the script doesn’t work with NNW 2.1 beta.

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Defensive Safari Surfing

February 22, 2006 – 11:13 pm

John Gruber has the details on the latest iteration of a Safari security bug.
The short form:

Open Preferences (Cmd-,)
Select General
Uncheck Open ‘Safe’ files after downloading

Thank you.

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XSLT script to generate album listing from iTunes XML

February 22, 2006 – 2:03 pm

[ via Paddy Dwyer ] An XSLT script to generate album listing from iTunes XML

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Gary Snyder

February 20, 2006 – 12:41 am

I read my favorite Gary Snyder poem, Hay for the Horses, last night after dinner at WoolfCamp.
Now it occurs to me that Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh Computer would had been more appropriate.

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AquaXSLT

February 19, 2006 – 11:19 pm

Todd released an XSLT debugger for Mac: AquaXSLT.

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