August 2007
13 posts
Jabber OpenID Server →
Now this is cool. You log in to the OpenID provider by responding to a Jabber message. You can use username@meebo.org if you’re set up on Meebo.
You could authenticate via your Meebo account when logging in to Pibb and cause a web-based chat vortex of death!
Excessive Quotation
Hack Attack: 9 Time-Saving Quicksilver Triggers -... →
I don’t care too much about the timer example, but this ability to collapse an object and action into one pane with Ctrl-Enter is something I didn’t know about.
To set up a timer trigger, type the text you’d like to alert you when the timer is up, then type Large Type (you can also use Speak Text if you prefer an audio alert or any action you prefer), then hit Ctrl-Enter. This...
Single Sign-On for the Internet: A Security Story →
PDF white paper pointing out some of the security issues facing OpenID.
Apple Takes a Step Back With iMovie ’08 →
The new iMovie gets a D for audio editing. You can choose one piece of music to put behind the video, but that’s it. Yikes, that’s bad news. For me the most fun in making movies with iMovie is setting them to music, with appropriate transitions in the timeline. I was originally excited about ‘08 but it looks like I was a victim of the RDF.
Domo arigato, Mr. Frustrato →
Thinking and Leaping →
| astronaut: music by Dan Frick - flash by Felix... →
What a cool idea. It’s a Flash movie that pulls photos from Flickr tagged with lyrics to the song. Every execution is different. via Boing Boing
Social Network Portability →
Huzzah and preach on, brothers and sisters!
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately what with joining all these social networks, plus the implementations of OpenID popping up. We’ve already got all of the tools to provide profile information, uniquely identify our social network, and each person’s relationship to us…all in a distributed fashion. We just need everyone to...
Holy Quicksilver, Batman
I just found out from the Daring Fireball that if you hold down the last key of the shortcut you’re typing, Quicksilver will automatically open it, sans Return.