05 November 2013
Knock twice on your iPhone to unlock your Mac. $3.99 on the App Store, and a really nice site that commits one major sin: Hijacking the user’s scroll momentum to guide them through the sections. This is happening a lot these days. We did some demos of this at Occipital for the Structure Sensor website, […]
10 April 2013
Remember when we all lost our shit over Panic’s awesome in-house status board? Well they released it on the App Store today. $10. You can even create your own data sources by following this doc. I’m sure the docs will be available as a non-PDF soon enough.
08 January 2013
Twitov is a generative text bot that takes your Twitter history file and uses it to make new Tweets based on your own personality. It’s free, all you need is your Twitter history file. Twitov is an Extra Future 6-hour project that ballooned into a week-long one. Whoops. Previous ExFu 6-hour Projects include Kove (a […]
06 August 2012
Sounds like a good deal to me: “Aptus is a dedicated browser that lets you preview, edit and screenshot your responsive site at any size from mobile through to large desktop.” Just $2.99 of your Earth dollars.
04 June 2012
“Finally.” I use a fairly cheap Android phone, because I don’t want to give ATT or Verizon any of my money, and I hate cell phone contracts. Instapaper was one of the apps I use everyday that was really hampered by the lack of a native client. Looks like that’s fixed, now. The interesting thing […]
24 May 2012
I’ve been using Coda 1 every day for 5 years to do my job. Coda 2 is great, already, and couldn’t be more worth the price ($49.99 today!) If you’re a fan of the alternative CSS syntax LESS, there’s already a Coda 2 syntax extension for you.
21 May 2012
Panic finally announces version 2.0 of Coda. Available May 24th, 2012. I’ve been using Coda 1.x every day as my primary tool for web development since 2007. To say I’m excited about this is an understatement. As you might expect, the product website is gorgeous, innovative, and informative. Hint: Type the backslash key to make […]
23 April 2012
PNGPress, my PNG image compressor for Mac OS X, is available on the Mac App Store worldwide. Good developers know that making images for the web is a constant battle between quality and file size. Great developers use PNGPress. Try it and see for yourself. Here are some promo codes: WHW94KHHE6A4 TNEMH4JKHP3M HXJEMTHHPLHW 3XFE7AWMYJMX 6ALNJWWWYJJ4
09 August 2011
la petite url, my custom short url plugin for WordPress, has a new homepage at http://lapetite.me. Version 2.6 is forthcoming with long-awaited support for sending short urls to the popular Twitter Tools plugin.
02 July 2011
The app takes in ambient noise to identify your location. Lots of neat and or creepy implications.
My name is Phil Nelson and I make beautiful objects for a troubled world. I'm a designer / developer / writer / director / editor / narrator at Occipital.
Hey. What're you doing all the way down here? You get lost? Just looking around? Cool. I like you.