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Lead Designer at Viddler, Andrew Smith, has released Pack via the Viddler blog – which is what he uses to compress Viddler’s CSS and Javascript for deployment. Pack is written in Ruby and runs from the command-line. However, you could easily daisy chain it to Capistrano when doing deploys, like Andrew has done for Viddler, […]

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Not two days ago I told Eliza that I eat too fast. Five years ago I said the same thing. Another habit that needs to die. So, how am I going to slow myself down? I’m going to count my chews. I know, that sounds a bit crazy but if I do it I can […]

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Sometimes you wonder if the habits you have today will simply always be your habits. I’m here to tell you that old habits die easy. Five years ago I was going to sleep at 5am and waking up mid-afternoon. In a very short period of time the opposite is now true. I like to be in […]

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Last night I spent some time on my patio working and reading.

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As I sit in our local Panera Bread, belly full of warm soup, after a day of traveling, meetings and recording an episode of Wine Library TV with my friend Gary – I’m reminded of this post about Panera and how it fills a void in our area. As I read the post I began […]

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Not the best syntax in that title but you get the point. Someone’s copy machines are working pretty hard. AppleTV = Google TV. App Store = Chrome Web Store. Amazon S3 = Google Storage. There are a few other examples coming out of Google I/O this week too. Granted, though, that some of these products are […]

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Five years ago I said that I had never been more anxious to watch a show each week. That anxiousness has lasted ever since. By Monday it will be all over. Or, The End.

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In 2005 Tommy Maddox was the starting quarterback for my NFL team of choice the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was horrible. At least in my opinion. I really, really disliked him. A few choice posts from that time period make this glaringly obvious: My prediction that the Steelers will run the ball in November 2005. And, […]

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Wow. This is sobering. Five years ago, while I was still working at 9rules, I mentioned how much I enjoyed waking up in the morning, having a cup of coffee, checking my feeds and getting the day rolling. That ritual didn’t start five years ago. It started at least five years before that (somewhere around […]

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OK, maybe not the world. But, this is simply a friendly housekeeping / reminder post to let you know how easy it is to keep up with the latest posts from this here site. In order of my recommendation: The RSS feed. – This gives you everything. Notes, links, photos, videos, etc. I suggest Google […]

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Spoiler: The Watchtower published by Jehovah’s Witnesses. The New York Review of Magazines has an excellent article about The Watchtower, its history, publication and distribution. I recommend giving it a read. Disclaimer: For those of you that do not know, I’m one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

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Google has open sourced VP8 and is using it as a basis for an entire open web media project. We at Viddler believe in our customers having choice. That’s why, hot on the heels of our support for HTML5 playback using H.264 on the iPad/iPhone, we’re announcing support for encoding into VP8 also. I’m really […]

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I’d be remiss if I didn’t recommend Dropbox to all of you. It has been a rather silent, but dare I say deadly, tool that I’ve come to rely on much more than I thought I would. And, it is practically invisible. So far I’ve used it to share files to and from my iPhone, […]

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The social eruption on the Web has had many small eruptions over the last few years. The most recent eruptions have been Facebook for Websites and Twitter’s @Anywhere services. Adding these features to one’s website is now easier than ever but that doesn’t mean you should add it to your website. The entire Web needn’t […]

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We’ve got a brand new parking garage at Viddler HQ, which is annexed in the excellent Ben Franklin Technology Center, and it is pretty nice.

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Believe it or not Viddler‘s "Super Sys Admin" Todd Troxell uses this text-based, window-less UI full time.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] So: Dude sings a song at a talent show-thingy, puts it up on his YouTube channel (there are a lot of fakes), everyone says he’ll be the next Bieber, Ellen sees it, has him on her show. Stardom awaits. But wait, did you catch the brilliant move that Ellen is now doing? […]

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Gloucester,Massachusetts. (Taken with a SeaLife SL320/SL32.)

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A new video for Viddler’s secure video hosting for businesses. We’ve got a lot in store for Viddler B2B this year and this video is only the tip of the iceberg. More tomorrow, next week and for the rest of this year.

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I can honestly say that I can not remember a time when I was bored. I hear many people say that they get bored, especially younger people, and it baffles me. Let’s face it, we all have a measure of ADD but isn’t the world filled with enough to do to save us from boredom? […]

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I can honestly say that I can not remember a time when I was bored. I hear many people say that they get bored, especially younger people, and it baffles me. Let’s face it, we all have a measure of ADD but isn’t the world filled with enough to do to save us from boredom? […]

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I can honestly say that I can not remember a time when I was bored. I hear many people say that they get bored, especially younger people, and it baffles me. Let’s face it, we all have a measure of ADD but isn’t the world filled with enough to do to save us from boredom? […]

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I can honestly say that I can not remember a time when I was bored. I hear many people say that they get bored, especially younger people, and it baffles me. Let’s face it, we all have a measure of ADD but isn’t the world filled with enough to do to save us from boredom? […]

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I can honestly say that I can not remember a time when I was bored. I hear many people say that they get bored, especially younger people, and it baffles me. Let’s face it, we all have a measure of ADD but isn’t the world filled with enough to do to save us from boredom? […]

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I can honestly say that I can not remember a time when I was bored. I hear many people say that they get bored, especially younger people, and it baffles me. Let’s face it, we all have a measure of ADD but isn’t the world filled with enough to do to save us from boredom? […]

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Looks like my recent switch back to Google Chrome is already paying dividends. The Gmail team has now moved a much loved lab feature that allows you to drag and drop images from your desktop onto a new message and have it automatically attach and/or insert directly into the message out into the open. I […]

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On the heels of the release of the great Transmit 4 comes OneWay a simple FTP utility (upload only, you can’t download anything) that works right from within the Finder. Need simple? OneWay. Need something a bit more? Transmit. Side note: OneWay is open source so there’s that. /via TJ Luoma on TUAW.

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I can honestly say that I can not remember a time when I was bored. I hear many people say that they get bored, especially younger people, and it baffles me. Let’s face it, we all have a measure of ADD but isn’t the world filled with enough to do to save us from boredom? […]

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Gloucester,Massachusetts. (Taken with a SeaLife SL320/SL32.)

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So Chrome is faster than Safari again. Not one month ago I said: "I’m back to Safari. I still love Chrome but Safari’s latest update made it edge out Chrome for speed. Speed, it seems, is the killer feature for me in Web browsers." It seems I’m going to follow the speed and it turns […]

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Dubbed Blackbird Pie this tool from Twitter makes it fairly simple to embed a tweet on your Web site. Provide the URL to the tweet and you’ll be provided with a HTML embed code for the tweet. Nice. Example. .bbpBox{background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile\_background\_images/98837270/Untitled.jpg) #bfbfbf;padding:20px;}p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px}p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6}p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px}p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 […]

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We humans like to obsess over things simply as a way to distract ourselves from what really needs to happen. There are many examples of this in life, such as a widow obsessing over the funeral details to distract herself from her own sorrow, but no one more apparent than the obsession with "Getting Things […]

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Project Song is a neat thing put together by All Things Considered host Bob Boilen wherein artists have two days to put together an entire song. The process is quite fascinating. "Gone to Sleep" is a product of this process with Moby and Kelli Scarr and the 16-minute featurette is nothing short of awesome. Moby […]

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Project Song is a neat thing put together by All Things Considered host Bob Boilen wherein artists have two days to put together an entire song. The process is quite fascinating. "Gone to Sleep" is a product of this process with Moby and Kelli Scarr and the 16-minute featurette is nothing short of awesome. Moby […]

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Project Song is a neat thing put together by All Things Considered host Bob Boilen wherein artists have two days to put together an entire song. The process is quite fascinating. "Gone to Sleep" is a product of this process with Moby and Kelli Scarr and the 16-minute featurette is nothing short of awesome. Moby […]

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Project Song is a neat thing put together by All Things Considered host Bob Boilen wherein artists have two days to put together an entire song. The process is quite fascinating. "Gone to Sleep" is a product of this process with Moby and Kelli Scarr and the 16-minute featurette is nothing short of awesome. Moby […]

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Project Song is a neat thing put together by All Things Considered host Bob Boilen wherein artists have two days to put together an entire song. The process is quite fascinating. "Gone to Sleep" is a product of this process with Moby and Kelli Scarr and the 16-minute featurette is nothing short of awesome. Moby […]

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Project Song is a neat thing put together by All Things Considered host Bob Boilen wherein artists have two days to put together an entire song. The process is quite fascinating. "Gone to Sleep" is a product of this process with Moby and Kelli Scarr and the 16-minute featurette is nothing short of awesome. Moby […]

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Project Song is a neat thing put together by All Things Considered host Bob Boilen wherein artists have two days to put together an entire song. The process is quite fascinating. "Gone to Sleep" is a product of this process with Moby and Kelli Scarr and the 16-minute featurette is nothing short of awesome. Moby […]

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No matter how it happened. No matter how much is spilling out into the water on a daily basis. No matter if it reaches land or not. No matter if they can manage to burn and or clean it up. The whole thing is absolutely horrible for the Gulf.

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As you, the avid reader of my blog, already know I’m addicted to Instapaper. I mention it now and then. So obviously I think this is just genius. Breakfast Instapaper is an application that makes it really quick to bulk add articles from The Guardian, The New York Times, an Australian paper, and Delicious. I […]

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Dude.

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HP is buying Palm for a cool $1.2B. Let the wild speculation and general blanket statements fly! However, I do like the way Marshall Kirkpatrick scoured Twitter and took the best tweets about the deal and featured them with commentary and context. Pretty nice. /via Daring Fireball and Read Write Web.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Quite possibly the most impressive emulator I’ve seen in recent memory. Super Mario Crossover allows you to play Super Mario using Mario, Mega Man, Link and more – all with their own individual controls, sounds and gameplay. Superb. /via Chris Coleman.

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So, you’re new to Facebook. Welcome! You’ve just joined a website with over 400,000,000 members and climbing. Needle, meet haystack. Before you update your status, "install" an application, or like that photo of that person you haven’t seen since High School – here are a few rules from Colin & Eliza Devroe – the Facebook […]

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So, you’re new to Twitter. Welcome! You’re about to tweet your first tweet – but there are some things you need to know first. Some rules to live by if you will. @cdevroe and @elizard, Twitter experts with over 20,000 tweets between them, have created the following rules which are inarguably true and beyond contestation. […]

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The latest version of Transmit makes me believe there is still hope for great software on the Mac. It is the first application I’ve downloaded that is truly great in months.

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In my "Is there a future for Mac software?" post I postulated: "I sometimes sit and wonder what sort of applications could have been made for the Macintosh if, say, Apple had opened up an App Store that supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Would the river of money have been split into three smaller tributaries? […]

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