Archive for the 'UI' Category

A Feed Taxonomy

Friday, January 27th, 2006

I’ve heard it again and again over the last year: People with “RSS overload” complaining that their aggregator is swamping them with information. The same generality of RSS that has made it so ubiquitous has also exposed problems in any application trying to serve as a consumer for all RSS feeds. RSS/Atom can [...]

Widgety Goodness (Part I)

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Today I released the first version of OPod (Cue cease and desist letters from Apple). James has the scoop.
I think I’m going to make this the first of a series of posts releasing widgets I’ve developed as parts of other projects.
Things I didn’t know before starting this:

Firefox allows frames embedded to a maximum depth of [...]

Swing Panorama

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Deep in the foothills of Wicklow a new web app is quickly taking shape. But when I lose concentration I’m pretty lucky to be able to step out the front door and go walk in the woods. On the hill opposite the house there is a huge, sprawling tree. And hanging from [...]

Link Mail

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

While we wait for del.icio.us to add link emailing, here’s a little hack to make life easier in the mean time.
In javascript, just as in a HTML link, you can target a mailto: url. So you can make a bookmarklet that extracts info from the page you are browsing and pops up a new [...]

for:support@del.icio.us

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

During my info-mania driven tours across the web I often come across links that would be of interest to my friends and I need a quick and simple UI to fire them off to the right destinations. A while ago, I made a start on a web app (avec bookmarklet) to distribute my links to [...]