Category Archives: Geek

Core Image-based image editors

A gaggle of sub-$100 image editors written atop Core Image:

DrawIt - $49
LiveQuartz - Free
ChocoFlop - Free
Acorn - $39.95
Image Tricks - $14.95
Pixelmator - $59

I haven’t spent time on any of these but a comparison would be pretty interesting. Too bad none of them are open source.

Google 411

Scott recently mentioned Google had a free mobile 411 service.
Yesterday I tried it out on a couple of local places. You can say “Map it” when you get the results, and they send you a text message containing the phone number, address, and a link to the location in Google Maps. This technique seems […]

iPhone agony

The iPhone is very slick and the available features are intuitive and easy to use. It’s an awesome, Internet-enabled, media-playing monster monster of a modern telephone.
Unfortunately, features that aren’t readily apparent just aren’t there. For example, Google Maps recently gained the ability to adjust routes for its directions. Do you want to travel from […]

meta-blogging

Succinct, easy-to-follow directions on using diff and patch to upgrade Wordpress.

Usability torpedoed by a simple missing tag

Update:
bentoyum.com is awesome, very creative. It’s amazing the variety she puts in those lunches, especially when many of the ingredients are leftovers or second uses — my own lunches, typically one container of whatever single or mixed-up leftover is available from our previous meals, are very boring and homogenous in comparison.
The original post about […]