June 2008
8 posts
Google Reader offline version should also cache...
Google Reader with Firefox has had an offline feature for a while that works nicely. But they should also download and cache other types of content besides text, in particular photos. This would make the Reader even more competitive with other offline full-featured software.
I don’t know what to do about video or other types of richer content (probably can’t cache all the hundreds of...
Four new Spring semester projects online — money...
I’ve published four new projects that I didn’t yet manage to post before:
SeeMoney, an interaction design exercise in online personal finance. I don’t like most online finance sites. So here we tried to explore an area that I haven’t yet seen solved well, and namely, working with money across groups. See also an old post of mine. (I use iBank these days to track my cast...
Firefox 3 download day on June 17, and their claim...
Firefox 3 will be released on June 17, this coming Tuesday. They say they are trying to set a Guinness World Record with “most software downloads in 24 hours”.
I’m looking forward to trying it out. I haven’t tried the betas or RC-s, as a while ago I made a point of not installing beta software unless it’s super essential. Many people say FF3 is nice, and some say...
The Soviet Story — a documentary about Soviet...
I just watched The Soviet Story. Wikipedia page of the film. Here’s the trailer.
It’s a documentary about some of the Soviet crimes against its own people (Holodomor, forced deportations — how fitting to post this on June 14, my national remembrance day). More importantly, it underlines the similarity of Soviet and Nazi regimes and important ways of how they helped each...
Fun Preview bug when trying to resize an image
Here’s a dialog I got when trying to resize an image. I think it was a 1-bit black-and-white PNG.
Now look again. Doesn’t the filesize look strange? I am trying to REDUCE the pixel size of the image. So how can 40 KB turn into a million terabytes? Hmm.
Advanced logarithm calculator on Mac OS X
Mac OS X has a pretty nice calculator bundled that is sufficient for daily purposes. Well, actually there are many. There is a dashboard widget, and Spotlight can do calculations. For more advanced things, you can use the Calculator app. Its scientific view met my needs… until now.
I needed to calculate some base-2 logarithms. Turns out the Mac OS X calculator can only do base-10 and...
The one piece of Apple hardware that needs an...
In anticipation of June 9 WWDC Keynote, everybody is talking about what new Apple stuff will be released there. Probably a new iPhone. Maybe some other stuff. We’ll see.
I want to talk about another piece of hardware. By now, I think it’s almost the most stale piece of Apple’s hardware lineup. Over the past few years, Apple has updated or released every piece of input,...
Skype Freetalk wireless headset does not work...
I wanted to buy a wireless headset. And not just a Bluetooth one-ear tiny thing, but a proper headset with two earpads and boom mike. Looked like the Freetalk headset was exactly what I needed, so I bought it.
The first experiences were great. I really liked the form factor, i.e physical form of it. The instructions, initial charging and setup were straightforward. “Great,” I...
