Ubiquity lets you browse the social web by typing, not pointing. In 2008, Mozilla Labs launched an ambitious project: a natural language interface for the web 2.0. It is now no longer in active development, but is still maintained to be compatible with the latest Firefox. So you can still enjoy this mature piece of [...]
Gravity Bone could be the indie game equivalent of Portal. If only it was a little longer. 2 years ago Brendon Chung’s Blendo Games released Gravity Bone. More a concept than an actual game. It’s still worth playing today.
After day one of Devoxx, the talk that I found most engaging was Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith’s State of the Web. They argued that Apple’s AppStore (and to a lesser extend Google’s App Marketplace) has created a gigantic marketplace of people willing to download and pay for applications. Previously this market was unserved, because [...]
Not all web applications are created equally. Some attract millions of users, others only a handful. One major differentiator is how data and features are represented visually and how the user interacts with them. Some chase users away by their terse, technical and random screens. Others lure in even the most uninterested user by engaging [...]
Plugins are a great way to enhance WordPress. However, visually those plugins don’t always work well with your theme. They tend to place their graphical elements all over the place. Most of them offer only little control over their location and visual appearance. Here’s a trick to move them to the spot you like.
Customizing an operating system has always been popular. There are many tools and many preconfigured styles out there. Stylish is the same thing, but for websites. On its companion site Userstyles.org you can find hundreds of pre-build styles for many websites. There are many pointless Facebook styles and gimmicky changes, but between those lie the [...]
I’ve been looking into mail clients lately. At work I use Outlook, and for my other mailing needs I have Gmail. Neither of these options are bad, but I’m also not too excited about both. So I’ve been looking around and found a few options and I’m now using a few. I can’t give you [...]
Two weeks ago I discovered that Wesabe will shut down at the end of July. Wesabe was the tool I used to track and budget my expenses. Without as much as an e-mail, the Wesabe owners decided to give us a one month notice. Some promises for more export tools were made, but have not [...]
Previously, I mentioned my love for Camtasia. What attracted me was the extensive video editor that was part of the package. What turned me off was the fairly steep price. Probably just right for professionals, but a little too high for many amateurs. Now, I think I’ve found the solution in the open source Kdenlive.
The Codex of Alchemical Engineering is a strange little game. Some will find this the greatest game to come along in a long time. Others will not understand its attraction and will probably find playing it a chore. Don’t worry if you’re in either category, tastes differ.