31 March, 2010
A nice touch in GMail: autodetecting a missing attachment
In this email, I didn't intend to attach anything, but it's a nice touch nonetheless.
Hi. My name is Alex Wiltschko.
This is my internet log.
29 March, 2010
Old anatomical drawings of the brain for this fine Monday
Let's get straight to it: By Felix Vicq-d'Azyr, published 1786, appearing in "Traite d'anatomie et de physiologie."The writing at the bottom translates "With permission of the King"
By Sir Charles Bell, published 1802 in "The anatomy of the brain"
29 March, 2010
Music Monday! Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap
(download)
It's been out for awhile, I know, I know. Listen to it anyhoo.
29 March, 2010
Opening the Finder's current directory in the Terminal
For some of us born into the era of GUIs, some tasks are more comfortable in the Finder, but others simply have to be done in the Terminal. Problem: pointing the Terminal directly to the folder you were just working in in the Finder. Solution: ">cd to..", which you can download at http://code.google.com/p/cdto/
It's a little applet that you can drag to your applications folder, and then into the toolbar of the Finder. Click it, and it opens up a Terminal window already cd'd to the open directory. As an added bonus, if works nicely in Quicksilver. Launch the applet from Quicksilver, and it opens a Terminal window navigated to the topmost Finder folder.
20 March, 2010
Converting raw bytes into audio files
For an upcoming iPhone app I'm working on, I'm capturing raw bytes from the microphone and displaying them to screen. One neat feature of the app, though, is that the user can choose to record incoming audio to a file. I was really dreading writing this (CoreAudio programming is notoriously difficult), but I stumbled across someone who'd already done it. If you're into that type of thing, you need to check out the terminal application pcm2aif's source code.
18 March, 2010
Letterheady, a collection of letterhead designs. They were the original blogs.
Letterheady is a purveyor of one of my enduring loves: simplicity and clarity in design.
17 March, 2010
Netflix Prize 2 cancelled
Don't know how I missed this, but Netflix has officially called off a follow-up to the original $1M data mining competition. Bummer about that, I was looking forward to it.
16 March, 2010
Getting up and running with PyQt4
Need a cross-platform GUI for some software I'm writing in the lab, and PyQt is a pretty good fit. GPL licensed, so I can use it academically for FREE. Anyhoo, stumbled across a video which goes through a couple of the motions on getting things up and running.
