Link Posts
Today’s update to Cultured Code’s Things includes a slew of new keyboard shortcuts and a much more useful Quick Entry Panel, which can auto-populate with any highlighted text and a link to the email message, Safari URL, or Finder file you are currently viewing. (Now I can toss the clunky AppleScript I’ve been using.)
Peruse the release notes for more info on the updates and for a complete list of the keyboard shortcuts.
A good read for the 51% of shawnblanc.net readers who had a cup of coffee this morning. (A conical burr grinder and a french press is how it’s brewed over here.)
David McCandless’ avant-garde infographic of time travel from popular movies and TV shows:
What I really love about this image, though, is the idea that this information has never been seen before. Despite the fact that it exists, in some way,somewhere, wrapped in various plots, it’s never been given form in this way.
This is just one page from his upcoming book, The Visual Miscellaneum, due out a month from tomorrow in the US.
Some of the best I’ve ever seen. Hands down.
But where’s the zip file for those of us who want to download them all, Phil?
This hack by Jon Hicks is actually going on two years old, but I just discovered it this evening. It changes the default layout of the Yojimbo window and turns it into a three-panel “widescreen” layout, not unlike the one found in NetNewsWire.
Speaking of beautiful, check out the gorgeous new design Elliot busted out for the Fusion Ads webiste.
By far and away my favorite thing to write is an in-depth review. And based on feedback, they are also, by far, your favorite thing to read.
Currently, there are nearly 30,000 words worth of software and hardware reviews hidden on this site. And until today there wasn’t a one-stop-spot for all the reviews I’ve written. Which is why I felt it was high-time these articles became first-class citizens by receiving a dedicated table of contents page.
I started using WordPress somewhere in-between Duke and Ella.
If you haven’t already, please take a minute and a half to answer a handful of multiple-choice questions. I’ll be publishing the data in a few days so you can see more about the other nerds who you’re reading with.
Thanks to all of you who have given feedback regarding the new link-post behavior in the shawnblanc.net feed. The consensus has very much been in favor of the new design for link posts.
There has also been a lot of encouragement to add a glyph to the front of each bionafied article’s title; done. Not only is the glyph helpful for quickly identifying a feed item as either a link or an article, but it also makes the articles a little bit more special.
And for any of you who also are exploring the depths of your RSS and link post behavior, this link is to the most comprehensive list of HTML glyphs I’ve ever seen.
Jürgen Schweizer on the Things Blog:
Believe it or not, we have been working on over-the-air sync since the beginning of this year. In the meantime, our goal changed from “something that works†(check out our competition if you want to know what we mean by that) to “a really sweet solutionâ€.
Similar format to the Sweet Mac Setup, Jorge Quinteros is interviewing photographers on their gear, software, and style.
Those of us who like it old-school may now feel free to upgrade. (Via Shaun Inman.)