It seems that Google is not as minimalistic as it once was. Now there are user bars, share links, translations, drop-downs… don’t you miss when it was simple, and (importantly) loaded almost instantly? To remedy this, I’ve created g.k3vin.net, an ultra-minimalistic homepage with a Google search box, and nothing else. The entire page is 3,753 bytes [...]
Browsing Software, Hardware & Tools
Invincible… Forever!
Play it now! Before I delve into the remainder of this blog, go “play” Invincible… Forever! Tumult Hype I was recently introduced to a neat tool called Hype by San Francisco developer Tumult. Hype is an HTML 5 Animator, a tool to help build fast, fluid animated web content without using a proprietary or expensive program [...]
QR Codes
QR Codes are becoming more and more visible these days, appearing everywhere from magazines, to bus stop ads. They even had a dancer hold up a giant QR Code in Stephen Colbert’s hilarious rendition of Rebecca Black’s “Friday”. They’re a useful tool that can help connect the physical world to the virtual one. A QR [...]
The iPad 2
It’s no secret now, but in case you missed it, yes, I bought an iPad 2. After using it for a few days, and getting to know this shiny rectangular piece of modern technology, I feel qualified to share of my impressions of the device. Typing is actually pretty easy. In landscape orientation, anyways. Portrait is [...]
(Mis)adventures with AppleScript
Since I switched to the Mac, there’s one thing I’ve constantly avoided: AppleScript. While I’ve used programs that support it, and used scripts in the past, I’ve never found a reason to roll up my sleeves and dig into the code. Here are a couple of reasons for my aversion to AppleScript. Syntax is overly [...]
Social Bliss: Twitterrific & Sparrow
Not dead, just busy! I’m starting a development company, but you’ll hear more on that later. Right now, I’d like to draw your attention to two really fantastic applications for Mac OS X: Twitterrific and Sparrow Twitterrific I got the original version of Twitterrific a while ago in a MacHeist Bundle, and while it was [...]
My IOGraph Day
What on earth is this maddening chart you see above? Is it the result of some maddening particle collision at the LHC? The graph of the spread of a deadly virus? Nope. It’s my workday use of my computer, as charted by IOGraph. Each line is the movement of my mouse. Each dot is where [...]
Fixing Messy Mac Apps
Mac App folders are a great thing. They bundle all the application’s files, executables, libraries and resources into a single place, makes them easy to move, copy, install and delete, and it looks pretty decently organized when you open your Applications folder. It gets really annoying then, when a non-native or ported app has additional files [...]
.NET MVC First Impressions
Today I had a rare opportunity. An old, terribly designed classic ASP site was falling apart, and it was our job to re-build it. No pressing deadline, so it’s something we can plan, research, and, most importantly we can have some fun with. The client has a Windows-based server, under tight security regulations. Because of [...]