Distracted Attention

Indie talks launch; storefronts; mailing list signups

Justin Williams describes his experiences since launching Today 1.0 over here.
Justin makes a comment about saving time if he’d used Potion Store instead of rolling his own storefront. I took a look at Potion Store when it first came out, and it looks like its come a long way since then. Anyone using it?
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Posted by Nick | August 26, 2008 | Filed under Design, Tech, microisv

Pepper peek

Here’s an updated screenshot from one of my testers:

A few changes:

Tag support has been removed for the initial release.
Added a “My Videos” folder. Under the hood this is a smart playlist of all your videos.
Automatically detects if files have been added and removed to one of your “Places” and updates automatically.
Replicated the “Open With” feature [...]

Posted by Nick | August 17, 2008 | Filed under Design, News

Finally upgraded to Firefox 3

I’m an early adopter of most things - but because my “gateway” to the Internet is my browser, I’m a little more cautious about browser changes. I’m especially dependent on plugins (Delicious, Web Developer, DownloadThemAll) - so I wanted to make sure they were supported before I made the switch.
The browsing experience certainly feels snappier [...]

Posted by Nick | August 9, 2008 | Filed under Design, Web

Retro Geek for Cheap

I can’t put my finger on it, but there’s something about this watch, some memory from growing up in the 80’s.
The best bit? It’s only $20 USD:

Posted by Nick | August 8, 2008 | Filed under Design

What’s in your dock?

I’m blessed with a 24″ display, which you’d feel is a lot of screen real estate. That said, my dock seems to be a little overloaded. Check the screenshot below.

Posted by Nick | August 6, 2008 | Filed under Design

Icons, Fonts and Themes Linkdump

Starting from Inspiredology Flickr Group Showcase post at Inspiredology, I’ve had a heady whirlwhind of icons, fonts and themes. It’s one of those days where every link seems to be worth bookmarking. And while we’re on the subject of bookmarking, thank you del.icio.us, for being one of those web apps I couldn’t live without. Yahoo [...]

Posted by Nick | July 29, 2008 | Filed under Design

Git Build Numbers for your Project

Had an idea earlier today to use script to generate incremental build numbers when compiling my Xcode projects. By default, Git uses hashes which resemble 02af6c6986c0973a38acb1a1dc392012840067c7, which is not human-friendly.
Dusted off my Programming Ruby book and put together the following:

Posted by Nick | July 21, 2008 | Filed under Cocoa, Design, Featured