Archive for the 'ui' Category

Firefox and Thunderbird featurelets I want

I use Firefox and Thunderbird. (For the latter I recently switched from using mutt — the last luddite at work to finally switch to one of them new fangled GUI things for email.) Here are a couple fixes/featurelets that I want in them.

I set Firefox to open new URLs in a [...]

thirtyboxes.py — a Python 30boxes.com API

30boxes.com is a nice web calendaring service, maligned somewhat by Joel Spolsky. I’ve been using Trumba for a while, but have now switched to 30boxes. So far I am pretty happy with the change. The “One Box” (any name for it would have been cheesy) is a great answer to the tedium of adding events […]

beautiful tutorials

Wow, are these ever beautifully written tutorials:

Build a Core Data Application Core Data Class Overview

by Scott Stevenson

goodbye ugly

A week or two ago I noticed that the theme I was using with my WordPress blog (the default one in WP 1.5, based on Kubrik) was pretty broken when viewed in IE6. I thought that David’s blog was also using the default WP 1.5 theme, but his didn’t seem as broken.

In any case, I […]

I want a Dave’s Quick Search Deskbar equivalent for my Mac

The greatest thing on my Windows dev box at work is Dave’s Quick Search Deskbar. This is probably the number one reason why I feel I am more productive on Windows than on my OS X box at home. I want something like this for my Mac. iSeek is close, but not quite there.

The […]