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Quietube
A simple but effective little site plus bookmarklet for viewing YouTube (and a few other video services) video, without all the comments, ads and other junk. As their slogan says, “Videos without the distractions”. Nicely done.
Posted: Wednesday, March 10, 2010.
Hg Init
A very well written, easily digestible Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky — just ignore the Windows command prompt.
Posted: Saturday, February 27, 2010.
A little spur-of-the-moment clip I took a few weeks back landing at Manchester Airport. The airport was closed for several hours that morning due to, as you’ll see, what seemed to be very localised snow. Pretty much everywhere other than directly around the airport was clear.
The (fantastic) soundtrack is “Girls” by Death in Vegas, from their album “Scorpio Rising”.
Posted: Tuesday, February 16, 2010.
ScreenSharingMenulet
Simple but excellent little app which allows quick access to other computers via Screen Sharing right from your menu bar.
Posted: Sunday, February 14, 2010.
An early treat for England fans ahead of this Summer’s World Cup, from the ever-great Mando “Mandolux” Gomez.
Posted: Monday, February 1, 2010.
“Thanks so much for downloading our first EP, ‘frankencottage’. We hope you liked it. A link to our second EP, ‘Music Box’ should be landing in your inbox within the next couple of weeks, a short time before its official release.” — Dark Mean’s email list.
I’m drooling already. And if the lovely artwork - and pre-release title track I found - is anything to go by, this will be as great as the previous EP.
Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2010.
A pretty incredible, and beautifully both articulated and presented, concept video from a research project initiated by Swedish publisher Bonnier, “which aims to capture the essence of magazine reading, which people have been enjoying for decades”. I think they have done a great job, and it will be fascinating to see what parallels there are from next week’s announcements from Cupertino if indeed, there are any.
Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2010.
First-Person Tetris
A pretty impressive take on Tetris, although the title is misleading. Don’t forget to arm yourself with motion-sickness pills.
Posted: Friday, January 15, 2010.
The Take-Away Shows
A growing collection of low-key performances from a great collection of artists, kind of similar in format to the Black Cab Sessions, which I also recommend.
Posted: Thursday, January 14, 2010.
Inklet
Neat application which, combined with a Pogo Sketch pen, turns a Macbook trackpad into a tablet.
Posted: Wednesday, January 13, 2010.
Whenever a link on your website opens in a new window a panda cries
It’s true. Save the pandas.
Posted: Tuesday, January 12, 2010.
TNEF's Enough
Josh Jacob’s little app which will extract files from those ridiculous winmail.dat attachments Microsoft Outlook/Exchange insists on mangling files into.
Posted: Monday, January 11, 2010.
This is the age of the empowered, cynical, skeptical, hype-resistant customer. It’s a great time to be a customer and it’s a great time to be a customer-centric organization.
Gerry McGovern —Why we love the Web.
Posted: Monday, January 11, 2010.
