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Month: March 2010

  • Storing Your Yojimbo Library on Dropbox

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    Similar to [backing up your 1Password library with Dropbox][1pass], comes in [this tip for Yojimbo][link]. Essentially the trick is to move your Yojimbo data to the Dropbox folder, then put up a symlink in the old folder location, like so: > mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Yojimbo ~/Dropbox >ln -s ~/Dropbox/Yojimbo ~/Library/Application\ Support/ I don’t see why the…

  • How To: Automatically Backup Your 1Password Keychain Offsite With Dropbox

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    Since the writing of this post, [1Password has added built-in Dropbox syncing as a feature][feat]. As such, the following information is no longer useful and is left intact for historical purposes. [feat]: http://help.agile.ws/1Password3/dropbox_syncing.html “Sync using Dropbox” *The following post was inspired by the recent postings of [Merlin Mann][merlin] and [John Gruber][gruber] RE: Why you need…

  • Microsoft Promises HTML5 <video> Support in IE9

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    [Which for them means H.264, apparently][link], and no Ogg support. I’m glad to see the IE team getting on board, but I wish Ogg was a more viable option for authoring web video. As it stands, it’s really not worth authoring two formats of video (Ogg and H.264) if you’re aiming at accommodating the most…

  • Thai Protestors Pour Human Blood Under Gates of Government House

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    >Earlier the protesters lined up to donate their blood, as the anti-government rallies entered a third day. [Fuck that red paint noise][link]. [link]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8569483.stm “BBC News – Thai red-shirts splash blood in anti-government protest”

  • Jeffrey Zeldman on Microsoft’s “Enforced Bragging”

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    > I’m not challenging the quality of the hardware and software improvements; I’m pointing out the enforced bragging, which is mandated from on high, and which flies in the face of the humble stance other high-level divisions in Microsoft would like to enforce in the wake of the company’s European drubbing and the dents Apple…

  • Chuck Palahniuk: Live Like You’re Dying

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    [A platitudinal title][link] for Chuck’s always-unique take on life and death. [link]: http://www.menshealth.com/men/best-life/life-lessons/make-life-worth-living/article/a1769597c4737210vgnvcm10000030281eac “Make Life Worth Living : Men’s Health”

  • The Extra Future Drinks Library: The Old Hotty

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    The Old Hotty is a combination of a [Hot Toddy][toddy] and the oldest cocktail, [The Old Fashioned][old]. It’s great for colds and those of us who are besieged by problems all day long and who seek to conceal our alcoholism by giving it cute names and cloaking the booze in socially acceptable manner (in this…

  • Roger Ebert Adds “The Big Lebowski” to His Great Films Collection

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    [and if you aren’t already clicking on this, we have nothing left to discuss][link]. [link]: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100310/REVIEWS08/100319989 “The Big Lebowski :: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies”

  • Spritely: jQuery Plugin for Sprite and Background Animations

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    [The movement is extremely smooth, the syntax is simple][link], color me impressed. This wouldn’t been helpful for my [Megaman II Intro in HTML5][mm2] project. May have to revisit that. [link]: http://www.spritely.net/ “jQuery Spritely | Spritely” [mm2]: http://extrafuture.com/code/mm2/ “Megaman II Intro in HTML5, jQuery and CSS”

  • Online Advertising: Losing the Race to the Bottom

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    [John Gruber and Jim Coudal’s SXSW 2010 panel][link] sounds like something I’m going to be sad I missed. Hell of a name. [link]: http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/617 “SXSW: Online Advertising: Losing the Race to the Bottom”

  • Metaphorical Maps

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    [Christoph Niemann’s Abstract City maps][link] for the NYT are funny. You may enjoy them. [link]: http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/my-way/ “My Way – Abstract City Blog – NYTimes.com”

  • Capybara Games Reveals Clash Of Heroes HD For XBLA, PSN

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    [Toronto-based indie games studio makes good][link]. Clash of Heroes for DS is one of the best western-developed DS games ever made. [link]: http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2010/03/capy_reveals_clash_of_heroes_h.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gamesetwatch+%28GameSetWatch%29 “GameSetWatch – Capy Reveals Clash Of Heroes HD For XBLA, PSN”