Geeky Gadgets - The Mario inspired Mushroom Desk Mini Cleaner | Geeky Gadgets (3)
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Check out this fun Super Mario inspired gadget, the Mushroom Desk Mini Cleaner. We have seen lots of mini desktop cleaners here at geeky gadgets, but none as cool as this one. Here’s the specs Mushroom Desk Mini Cleaner To remove the hair or dust on the garment To remove the dust on the surface of home appliance, computer keyboard or furniture To remove the cigarette or interior of car Diameter: To: 9.5 cm, Base: ...
libxml-ruby 0.8.0 Released: Ruby Gets Fast, Reliable XML Processing At Last (23)
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Ruby's is not known for its deftness with XML. On RubyFlow, I considered calling the community to arms over it, and solicited twenty responses on what the problem is, and what we could do about it. Robert Fischer was lamenting on the state of Ruby's libxml library, and didn't seem to like REXML much either. Tim Bray has also had a few complaints about REXML. It seemed there was a problem to be fixed; a ...
Horn Subwoofer Takes Up Crazy Man's Entire Basement [Retromodo] (14)
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While you might think you have a pretty sizable subwoofer, when it's compared to this crazy Italian man's subwoofer, it's downright pathetic. That's because he essentially converted his entire basement into one ridiculously large subwoofer.Update: OK, so this is a few years old (circa 2000), but I'd never seen it and it seems like many of you haven't either. So I'm leaving it up, but if you are offended by things that were made a ...
Autumn: Easy, Feature-Rich IRC Bots in Ruby (8)
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Autumn is a framework by Tim Morgan that makes it easy to develop powerful IRC (Internet Relay Chat) bots with Ruby. Version 3, a significant update, was launched just a week ago. The code is available on Github, so it's ready to fork, tweak and work on to your heart's content. An instance of an "Autumn app" is laid out in a similar way to a Rails app. There are config, doc, script, libs, tmp, ...
Ubiquitous Interfaces, Ubiquitous Functionality (7)
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Lately some of us at Mozilla Labs have been experimenting with graphical keyboard user interfaces in Firefox. Our current work-in-progress is something that we’re calling Ubiquity for the time being, though the name is by no means set in stone. Ubiquity is heavily informed by Enso, a software product developed by me and my colleagues at Humanized from 2005-07. Aside from the benefits outlined in Alex Faaborg’s blog post entitled The Graphical Keyboard User Interface, ...
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Dave said:
The folks at Humanize come up with a very interesting firefox addition, building off of the work they did with Enso. I'm not sure if I'm feelin' all this CLI stuff though.
Dock Spaces Creates Context-Specific Docks [Featured Mac Download] (28)
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Mac OS X only: Free utility Dock Spaces creates and swaps between up to five customizable Docks in Leopard. Contrary to what the name might imply, Dock Spaces does not swap out your Dock every time you change Spaces. Instead, it swaps Dock content through your menu bar on demand, perfect for creating different task-specific Docks. Dock Spaces is donationware, Mac OS X only. Dock Spaces [via Cool OSX Apps]
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bsag said:
Reminds me of the late, lamented Workstrip.
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kleinmatic said:
Specifically for Felix.
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Ali T said:
This is neat, too bad I don't have a Mac
Join Why The Lucky Stiff (And Others) For an Online “ShoesFest” (3)
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You've used Shoes, Why The Lucky Stiff's GUI-app toolkit for Ruby, right? No? You've at least heard of it? (If the answer to this is also no, seriously chastise yourself now.) Ernest Prabhakar has announced that two online "ShoesFests" will be taking place, involving why the lucky stiff and "friends," with the hope of alluring wannabe hackers (whether on Shoes itself or Shoes-based applications): The goal of these events is to write and share fun ...
Supercharged Commits (on your site) (4)
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Ari Lerner has a blog post about keeping your site as fresh as your code. How? By showing off recent commits. See it in action on the poolparty website: Nice. Anyone have a JavaScript version?
Thsrs: it's a thesaurus, but shorter (13)
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Filed under: Fun, Blogging, ProductivityDo you type a lot of SMS or Twitter messages? Watching your character count closely? Maybe you should check out the Thsrs, a new thesaurus from Ironic Sans. Put in the grandiloquent word you were planning to use, and it will give you a shorter synonym to help you save characters while still making sense. What inspired Thsrs? Well, David at Ironic Sans thought people needed a little help composing understandable ...
vi.sualize.us creator on Getting Real and building an app in his spare time with no budget (3)
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Victor Espigares of vi.sualize.us, a site that lets you "freely bookmark the pictures you love," is a fan of Getting Real. Here's why: Just want to thank you for your great book. I'm the one behind vi.sualize.us, a social bookmarking site focus on visual content. visualizeus helps people to keep track of the images they love and share them with others. I developed the site in five months using only my spare time (nights, holidays...) ...
Why user interface design matters (1)
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The difference between great vs. poor user interface design can be hard to quantify. Similar to the supposed difference between art and pornography — you know it when you see it. You certainly can’t tell which is a better designed product simply by looking at a list of their features. Two products may have similar options, one may even have more options than the other, yet the lesser-featured product can be far superior — because ...
TinyURL adds custom domain feature (11)
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Filed under: Internet, Web services, web 2.0 TinyURL is the grandaddy of URL shortening services. Want to take a long URL and squeeze it into an easy to email, tweet, or otherwise share package? Just plop it into TinyURL and the service will spit out a short string of characters you can share with others. But historically those characters have been pretty much meaningless, making TinyURL addresses difficult to remember.TinyURL recently rolled out the ability ...
How removing shell calls sped up GitHub (6)
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One of the slowest things you can do in Ruby is shell out to the operating system. As a contrived example, let’s open an empty file 1,000 times: >> require 'benchmark' >> `touch foo` >> Benchmark.measure { 1000.times { `cat foo` } }.total => 4.51 >> Benchmark.measure { 1000.times { File.read('foo') } }.total => 0.04 The difference is clear – the very act of shelling out is expensive. And while 1,000 may seem high, we ...
Open Sourcing Browser Sync (18)
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By Aaron Boodman, Software Engineering Team and Browser Sync DeveloperOpen Sourcing the Google Browser Sync client was something we'd always planned to do, and we're pleased to say that the code for it is now yours for the taking. Given our recent decision to discontinue support for Browser Sync, we wanted to make sure that the code for it was available for the developer community to use and improve. While we're no longer doing active ...
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Josh Bancroft said:
It seems like there's some overlap with the Mozilla Weave project here. How about mashing those two together, to get the best of both?
Quicksilver's Back; Nerd Hope Cautiously Restored (48)
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New Quicksilver builds | Hawk Wings Since going open source late last year, things have seemed pretty quiet in the world of our favorite app launcher, Quicksilver. Today, our pal, Tim Gaden of Hawk Wings, posts on the availability of a bug fix release of Quicksilver that’s come out in the last few weeks. He also points to a thread on the QS Google Group that suggests Quicksilver’s auteur and flippered mystery bot, A1c0r, is ...
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Gregory C said:
geek joy.
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trevor said:
I'm in no hurry for a new version of Quicksilver. The current one works flawlessly for me.
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Jen said:
I want a Windows version :(
jQuery LiveSearch (19)
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A fun blog post popped up yesterday in which John Nunemaker ported a Quicksilver-style Live Search to jQuery. Taking a look at his code, I decided to have a little fun and re-port it to jQuery - trying to use the functional style that jQuery promotes. I think the end result is quite simple and elegant. The final code - compare with John's port: jQuery.fn.liveUpdate = function(list){ list = jQuery(list); if ( list.length ) { ...
Plurkmania Brings You All The Plurk Stats You Can Eat (27)
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When I initially wrote about Plurk, I noted that while it was a great service, I don’t see it gaining too much traction because of its similarity to Twitter which seems to be in that comfy spot where no one really wants to switch to another service, whichever novelties it may bring. Fast forward one month, and Plurk seems to be doing mighty fine, with a lot of enthusiastic users plurking all day long. And, ...
