Why must you be so pretty?
Apple has mastered the art of constantly improving their user interface so that whenever anyone gets a new iPod or Macbook I look at it, and then at my own, and think, ‘Well mine looks like crap!’ Well played, Jobs.
Archive | March, 2008
Stream of consciousness downloading
I’ve wanted to post more recently, I have. But while there will be half-formed things in my head, I never get around to going to danconley.net, clicking Admin, etc.
I’ve gotten back into Twittering again, if only because I can ‘microblog’ and that’s easier than blogging. Friend me if you like but it’ll probably be song quotes that are stuck in my head or other inane ramblings most of the time. That lead to trigger119 saying I should check out Flock. It integrates with practically every ‘Web 2.0′ service out there, which was nice. I integrate my Facebook into enough programs (Flock, Digsby, etc) that it almost seems as though I should actually do something with Facebook. Almost.
I gave up on Flock today, as it does a lot of cool things to 75% functionality:
- Bookmark to del.icio.us automatically! … but not let you tag them
- See all your friends’ updates in Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc! … except it’s slow to update, and Twitter already IMs me with updates
- Post to your blog! … unless it’s WordPress, which magically doesn’t work
- Read blogs! … except its auto-mark-read feature only works some of the time, and they’re sorted newest first (has the ability to do oldest first been added to Google Reader yet?), and I can’t access them from anywhere but my laptop, unlike Bloglines
So it’s a cool idea, but needs work. Also, as far as I can tell I can’t get the Web Developer Toolbar for it either.
It did get me thinking about other services and so forth. Blogging from my browser sounds cool! Maybe I’ll actually do it! So I checked out Scribefire. Didn’t work. Deepest Sender. Didn’t work. Looked at Ecto but I’m too cheap to pay for anything. Eventually I realized it may be my xmlrpc file, as Deepest Sender could connect to my LJ (no, you’re not getting a link) but not danconley.net. So I upgraded WordPress… and found out that I don’t meet the minimum requirements for it after I overwrote my old, but yet actually functional, installation. A quick, but frantic, search later I found the version I had and re-installed. Tried Deepest Sender again and lo and behold, I’m typing in it! Of course if this fails upon posting I’m going to be pissed.
The other thing that came out of the day’s exploits is that tiny showed me Fyreball, which I’m now using.
About damn time
Internet Explorer 8 will finally follow web standards.
Of course there’s no reason that IE7 shouldn’t have done it, or at the very least left in the hacks people found for IE6.
Thanks to my fellow Browser Rage Coalition member for pointing this out.
