becarella's jots on tech


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I made myself a standing desk. Its the perfect height except for the mouse. http://instagr.am/p/ezOFz/
And 4 desktops means 4 wallpapers for the 4 Hogwarts houses! http://bit.ly/sFHJZN
I have my iMac desktops figured out:
1. textmate on the right, quick access terminal and browser on the left
2. 2 half screen browsers with tests on one side, logs on the other
3. half screen browser, half screen terminal w/ logs
4. IM, email, etc
Twice a year, I enjoy realizing that I have no clocks that require me to change them by an hour.
Mac users: how do you organize your desktops/spaces? I usually keep everything in one desktop and make frequent use of cmd-tab and cmd-` but I'm thinking about changing.
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A great TED talk about prosthetic legs and being an early adopter of augmentation. http://sjot.it/owaaik (via http://twitter.com/ssmith)
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Who else sleeps with their ipad under their pillow? http://imgur.com/RUCsT
It's weekends like this that make me wish I had taken my fleeting desire to get a pedal-a-watt more seriously. http://www.econvergence.net/electro.htm.
A big shift in the balance of native app vs web app? Amazon releases the Kindle Cloud Reader. http://sjot.it/nUlQ0a (via @OliPalko)
this rental car has a usb plug and "sync powered by microsoft.". a robot voice just told me it was unable to index my iphone. i was probed!
If an in-app purchase fails, is that a usually an Apple-side error or app-side error? "Unable to complete your purchase at this time. Please try again later."
When I was in college, the dean used to give talks on how my generation would be the 1st to live forever or the last to die depending on when we figure out telomere shortening. Pointy haired boss is onto telomeres now: http://sjot.it/pDEQbl
I want my computer to growl the song that's currently being played by someone else over airplay. Does anything already do that?
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I only found out about Chrome's hold-to-quit option yesterday via http://bit.ly/qhDXTW. Life is so much better today. Especially on Jereme's keyboard where I'm still pretty clumsy.
Exciting development for non-invasive glucose monitoring (excluding the getting tattooed part): http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38065/
When did Google translate add "listen" options? Nice. http://bit.ly/paswal
Every now and then I check on the start of the art in generating electricity from my body. Goal: eat potato chips, charge phone. It looks like converting heat is as good as it gets now. Does eating potato chips on the couch create much heat?
Good read from Google on clustering friends based on email interactions. Is it being used in G+? It doesn't seem like clusters apply to the suggested friends feature and I haven't seen suggestions for missing people in circles. http://bit.ly/njNeSx
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I'm trying @jereme's keyboard today. Time to load up Mavis Beacon. It's all new. http://instagr.am/p/Htu92/
I could use location-based phone settings. Silenced at the office, but max volume at home where I forget to keep my phone by my side and thus miss calls and texts that rang silently.
When/why/do you search google via voice? Just noticed you can do voice search from google.com. I don't know why I'd do that. Even if I can't spell something, google usually knows what I mean.
Tomorrow, we get our Apple gift cards for the computers we sent in for recycling! Oh the digital things I will buy. Starting a list below. What else should I try?
This isn't the kind of thing you want to see from a banking website. Click reconnect on a non-Chase account in mint.com and it pulls up a form to connect to Chase at web address "http://pants.com";. http://bit.ly/m0yaLJ
Subscribed to the Uber blog b/c they say fun things like "math!" and "science!". Couldn't figure out how to only subscribe to the #uberdata section though.
iTunes Match song limit: 25,000. My itunes library (excluding iTunes purchases): 23,783. Not sure if that's a "phew" or a "yikes." Possibly a "meh."
If I owned http://staging.com, I would sell off subdomains to people like myself who flip urls around. I keep typing subjot.staging.com.
Enabled Back to My Mac with Mobile Me. Now I can ssh to computername.mobilemename.members.mac.com. Yay!