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Widget in the Top 50

June30

For anyone who didn’t notice my little project on the side bar, I wrote a widget for OS X. The widget is an “illusion of the day” type thing. I frequent this site and the owner did a shout-out for some help. I wrote a widget that downloads his feed and displays the latest picture. Screenshot:

The coolest thing is that after finishing the widget on June 26th, it made it into Apple’s Top 50 (currently #16).

Yeah! :)

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Wi-Fi!=Wireless Fidelity

June26

Does Wireless Fidelity even make sense?

Fidelity - accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal

therefore

wireless fidelity - the accuracy with which a device reproduces an input sound or image using wireless transmission or wireless quality reproduction of an image or sound????

I just saw another article that said “Wi-Fi, or wireless fidelity.”

Please, reporters, stop calling it that before it becomes the accepted term. See wikipedia for the explanation.

Poka’Mon The Lost Episode

June24

Just plain funny.

From Rocketboom.

RB also did an episode on net neutrality (in classic RB style).

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Why do you do what you do?

June22

Came across this site. It’s a gallery of photos of people holding up signs answering the question “Why do you do what you do?”

Some answers are funny, others sad. Some inspirational, others mean.

A fun site to spend some time at–might even help you answer the question for you. My answer? Not saying. Maybe later.

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Smackbook

June1

Most of you should have seen this already but I’m posting it here with a bunch of links. Check it out

Links:

(most links came from the Cult Of Macblog)