April 22, 2021 at 4:59 pm
This is a post-it note for myself to a long list of free, self-hosted software solutions. Decentralization, independent internet, and all that jazz. If you’re looking for alternatives to siloed, subscription model, software-as-a-service (SaaS) — give it a look.
April 19, 2021 at 4:30 pm
Speaking of longevity on the web, here’s some nifty open source software for rolling your own Internet Archive. Archivebox saves URL snapshots in several formats: HTML, PDF, PNG, WARC, and more. It can extract a wide variety of content to preserve — article text, audio/video, git repos, etc. You can feed it URLs one at a time, schedule regular imports from browser bookmarks or history, use feeds from RSS, connect bookmark services like Pocket/Pinboard, and more. Take that link rot!
The balance between the permanence and ephemeral nature of content on the internet is part of what makes it beautiful. I don’t think everything should be preserved in an automated fashion–making all content permanent and never removable, but I do think people should be able to decide for themselves and effectively archive specific content that they care about.
October 15, 2015 at 10:05 pm
I’ve been running the new 10.11 for a couple of weeks and have been loving it. Performance seems a touch faster and better even on my ancient workhorse of a Late-2008 Macbook Pro. I’ve definitely noticed it running cooler and spinning up the fans less often. But three things have really stood out to me that were notable and worth remark.
September 2, 2014 at 11:30 am
Holy crap, this is exactly what I needed the other day. I wanted to do a GIF of the fullscreen overlay technique I linked to but the file size was ridiculous. Plus it was also a pain doing it the way I knew — QuickTime screen recording into Photoshop. I love simple, single focused software like LICEcap — though I’m not thrilled about the name. I do love the price though, free.
And it’s GIF as in gift. If it was the other way it would be spelled JIF.
I don’t care what the inventor says.
(via DesignerNews)
July 18, 2012 at 8:53 pm
I’ve spent the last month or so looking at various backup and synchronization options trying to find the perfect solution. While I use Time Machine as a full backup solution for everything on my laptop, I now needed something to sync just a few folders on a network storage drive with several computers around the house. I found countless apps, Automator scripts, even terminal commands — but everything kept coming up short. Finally my backup prayers were answered. The app is called Synkron and it will surprise you.
March 30, 2011 at 10:31 pm
Here is a quick screencast of the new Firefox 4 Panorama/Tab Groups feature. I think it’s a pretty nifty helper for organizing things since I somehow wind up with 2 windows open with 10–20 tabs in each window. That can get pretty crazy jumping back and forth and around. Let me know what you think of the video.
I recorded it with the free version of Jing and there’s a few things I’m not thrilled about with the sharing and streaming so I think I’m going to go ahead and step up to something like Screenflow and a YouTube channel for better recording, distribution, and overall betterness.