Tim’s Internet Web Log

Keyboard shortcuts for screenshots:

• Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop
• Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop
• Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop
• Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard
• Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard
• Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard

Screenshots in OS X

I’ve been using MarsEdit recently for blogging and while it is a good tool it isn’t the best thing ever.

This blog post is coming out of ecto - another standalone blogging app. I’ll see how it fares over the next 21 trial days.

Here’s what I think MarsEdit could benefit from and what I hope ecto provides: some way to resize images to fit in the blog post, I currently have to jump out to Acorn or some other image editor to crop or resize images that I post to the blog.

The ability to paste images from the clipboard into a blog article.

MarsEdit asks you to enter content in raw HTML and I don’t mind that at all but they should take a look at how HTML editors and coder’s text editors make that easier with auto-open/close tags and tab completion.

Ecto has a rich text editor so that will be interesting to use and hopefully will provide the goodies vis-à-vis image editing.

Ooh, it does and it does it well. Drag and drop images and resizing within the post. Hopefully the upload experience will go well. This one above was from the file system.

I still think that MarsEdit has hope and that the best image workflow there is probably to roundtrip through flickr and let flickr do the resizing. It would make it relatively easy to link an image like the one above back to a full resolution original.

Now… let’s try ecto’s ability to take pastes from the copy/paste buffer.

Solid as anything. Cool.

From a 1980 Jenny Holzer drawing in the permanent collection (I think):

	Some days you wake and
	immediately start to worry.
	Nothing in particular is wrong,
	it's just the suspicion that
	forces are aligning quietly
	and there will be trouble.

From 5ThirtyOne:

The latest news on the street is that Google is slowly rolling out a much anticipated feature - IMAP support.

How to get that hooked up properly.

Oh happy days! I’ve not used Apple Mail since I moved to Gmail so I’m really looking forward to getting back onboard… I wonder what it is going to do with the 484mb / 7300 messages I have in my gmail archive when I first connect. I wonder how Apple Mail’s search is going to be by comparison to gmails…

I’ll keep you udpated.

In the Seinfeldian chain there are calendar days that have onlick events, they’re not anchor tags with hrefs, they’re divs with onclick events:

onclick="new Ajax.Request('/chain/update_chain/2007-10-03', {asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true})"

Why googlebot? Why do you follow these paths?

I see a robots.txt in my future.

I’ve been listening to Bob Dylan a bit recently. I just found his XM Radio programme on BBC Radio 6. You can “Listen Again” to the previous week’s show.

I’ve heard Theme Time Radio Hour reviewed positively so I look forward to listening to it. He plays a set of his favourite songs from any genre based on a general theme for the hour. This week the theme is New York and we’ve had Ellington’s Take the ‘A’ Train and Lou Reed’s Dirty Blvd. (track listing).

It only works in the UK or with a UK proxy because it is paid radio in the US.

Can you have a radio show? I guess so, if the language uses sufficient imagery.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/bob_dylan/

Boreded Cieling Cat makinkgz Urf n stuffs

1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat waz invisible, An he maded the skiez An da Urf, but he no eated it.

2 The Urfs wus witout shapez An wus dark An scary An stufs, An he rode invisible bike over teh waterz.

3 An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.4 An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stufs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz cats can seez in teh dark An not tripz ovr nethin. an Ceiling Cat sayz u mus hav da moneyz 2 git da milkz.5 An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. Teh evning An morning was teh first day.

It’s a wiki. HALP PLZ!

http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

This video is about what the web means for how we address infomation and how that has changed in the past, what? 15 years?

The video is beautiful, the pacing frantic and representative of the web. It captures the non-linear nature of information and information use on the web.

Best cheese omelette, ever…

* 2 eggs
* grated Parmigiano-Reggiano to taste
* salt
* butter for the pan

Serves 1. You’ll need either a larger pan or a couple of omelette pans going in parallel to deal with more people. Either that or implement a fifo queue.

Heat up a 20cm non-stick frying pan over a medium heat. While it is heating beat a couple of eggs well and grate your grana.

When the pan is heated add a little butter to cover the bottom of the pan, careful it doesn’t burn, and pour in the egg. Sprinkle with the cheese and salt. Wait until the egg is almost but not quite set and then fold the omelette in three, like a business letter, and serve.

Other good fillings, sautéed chives, mushrooms and tomato. Sautéed onion with cheese.

Here’s an interesting article about how Parmesan is made: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmigiano-Reggiano

Henry points to this:

Excellent idea. Wonder if it will work.

http://www.dillonworld.com/2007/10/speeding-in-bethnal-green.html