A tool for designing palettes starting with one base color
Color Scheme Designer 3 Proposed palette for Miangr (tags: design webservices web tool miangr) Color Scheme Designer 3 Very nice tool for creating a web site templates, starting with one base color. (tags: design web webservices tool)
Tracking work on my Nrby Photos webos app.
Nrby Photos – Pivotal Tracker Tracking work on my Nrby Photos webos app. (tags: web2.0 agile webos webservices programming)
In addition to TinEye, Idée has several other image search and discovery services.
Idée Labs In addition to TinEye, Idée has several other image search and discovery services. (tags: imaging webservices)
Now you can convert any text to Ogham
In a little bit of recreational programming I threw together a web converter that takes any text and converts it into Ogham. Ogham (pronounced oh-em) is an alphabet from early Medieval Ireland, around the time Christianity took root. It was designed to be carved on the vertical corner of a monumental stone, read from bottom [...]
WebOS shortcut "bullseye" means hold gesture area until gesture light glows.
Finally! Thanks to this Palm Pre Shortcuts article I now understand the "keyboard shortcuts" that show in the Edit menu of every WebOS app. They show a bullseye symbol followed by, for example " C" for copy and " V" for paste. But I never understood what the bullseye symbol meant. It looked a bit [...]
links for 2010-12-22
Git Reference (tags: mobile guide tutorial hp palm) Dashboard – Pivotal Tracker Very nice free agile planning tool that I use for my personal programming projects. (tags: pivotal tracker agile service tool) SG This is an interesting experiment in adaptive reading of news articles. (The website is built using Scala Lift.) (tags: scala web2.0 news)
This is a handy place to find out what package contains some file you are missing.
Ubuntu — Ubuntu Packages Search This was particularly useful when I was setting up my Latex environment — the various Ubuntu Tex package do not seem to manage dependencies very well and I kept on getting errors caused by missing files.
Perhaps Diigo is a good replacement for Delicious
Longshot! Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http://longshotmag.com 10 Alternatives To Delicious.com Bookmarking Looks like I cannot rely on delicious any more — and even if I could they have had no significant improvement for years. For now I am going to try moving to diigo. (tags: web2.0) Diigo – Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, [...]
Checked Exceptions Considered Evil
Many years ago when I first learned Java, I really liked the “checked exception” programming language feature. If the code in a method can throw a checked exception then the compiler forces the programmer to either surround the code with a try-catch or include the exception in the throws clause of the function declaration (which [...]
An amazing service from Google, allowing you to fly through the human body in 3D, setting the transparency of different parts of the body.
Body Browser – Google Labs An amazing service from Google, allowing you to fly through the human body in 3D, setting the transparency of different parts of the body. You can search for parts of the body, though only by Latin name mostly. This does require a modern browser HTML5 browser. (tags: web service graphics [...]
The tweets of the people I follow on Twitter, presented in the form of a newspaper by paper.li — somewhat like Flipboard.
The Eamonn O'B-S Daily The tweets of the people I follow on Twitter, presented in the form of a newspaper — somewhat like Flipboard. (tags: webpageprinting web2.0 webservices layout contenttransformation me my)
















































































































































































































































































