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Finally available in Sweden! I really would like to try it out.

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It’s a bit early in the cycle, but it feels like these rumors about an Apple “smartwatch” are snowballing a bit faster this time around than Apple HDTV rumors. Remember, rumors of the latter have come and gone at least since 2006.

The watch chatter feels different, and I think it’s because the…

parislemon:

Ina Fried reporting on HBO’s Eric Kessler talking at AllThingsD’s D: Dive Into Media conference:

As for why the company doesn’t just get directly on Apple TV, Kessler said, “We will get on Apple TV, as we’ve said all along.”

I get why there would be a hold up putting HBO Go on Apple TV — Apple fully controls the apps that appear on that device and negotiating with Apple is never easy. But why did it take HBO this long to enable AirPlay in their app when rivals did it months ago? Leverage against Apple, I have to assume. (And now that it’s already been reported that HBO Go is coming directly to Apple TV, no more leverage required…)

It will be great to be able to watch HBO content on the Apple TV. But don’t forget that you still need that cable television subscription to get access to HBO Go in the first place. Which is fucking lame.

Incredible presentation of the combined capabilities of CSS 3 and HTML5!

Great article.

Very good tutorials and articles about Backbone JS.

Designing a programming system for understanding programs.

Reveal lets you author beautiful presentations, right in your browser.

Love the idea of Jekyll. The packaging is great, too. Simply install it as a rubygem. From their GitHub page:

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server.

This is also the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host your project’s page or blog right here from GitHub.

Just install this little gem on OS X Mountain Lion. It’s a fantastic little piece of code written in Ruby:

gem install terminal-notifier

Will be useful in so many small scripts — big and small ones. This way, you are guaranteed to be able to give your user feedback.

Great examples of when this code might come in handy:

• when a backup or
• system maintenance just finished

(You might have to sudo gem install, depending on how your Ruby environment is setup.)

These are all excellent things to do behind the scenes, via the Terminal and its command-line — you just run some simple code. But now, you can alert your user too — about anything — via OS X’s built-in Notification Center.

One example (stolen from the article) — a notification can open URL addresses as well as applications, if the user clicks on it:

terminal-notifier -message "Time to summarize the day.
Open a new text document now?"
-title "You will probably soon leave the office"
-activate com.apple.TextEdit

(Without the line breaks in the example above, of course…)

Done!

Google explains!

Great, free service for all Instagram users. Description (from their website):

Copygram — share, print & back up your instagram photos

Access, share, and secure instagram content by using your favorite device – may it be your desktop, laptop, or ipad – we’ve got you covered.

• View and share Instagram photos anywhere on the web
• Go social - Follow, Comment, and Like your favorite photos and feeds
• Back up your entire feed and worry no more
• Print and share the grams you love the most in our brand new print shop
• Browse with ease - Copygram is iPad and desktop compatible
• Sign in with your Instagram account to get started, or discover the Instagram network pronto by typing your favorite username or hashtag into the explore box.

Updated: Some Markdown errors were corrected, so now there’s spacing between the sentences above. The header, bullet list and pararagraphs were one single big lump of text, without row breaks… Apparently, Tumblr seems to dislike when you mix HTML and Markdown…

Cheat Sheet for Sublime Text.

Cheat Sheet for RVM.

A graphical tool for all (HTML5) web designers. I haven’t tried it yet, but if I would summarize it I’d say it’s a non-bloated and more modern version of Dreamweaver.

You can write your own code from scratch and see how it visually links to elements on the web page. A little bit like Xcode’s Interface Builder.

According to their website:

Flux is an advanced HTML5 Web Design application, capable of creating stunning sites from scratch. Flux isn’t a template based solution, it’s a creative design environment. Flux has comprehensive support for HTML and CSS, including Image Maps, CSS Gradients, custom fonts, and almost everything else.

However — is it worth 899 SEK (approximately 129 USD or 99 EUR)?

Great way of installing Ruby (and all wonderful RubyGems) without having to touch the Terminal. Instead, JewelryBox provides a graphical interface and a complete overview.

According to their website:

JewelryBox allows you the freedom to manage your rubies, gemsets and gems from a graphical environment. Take advantage of the native OS X application interface with a 100% pure objective-c code base. Out of the box, JewelryBox runs natively on Mac OS X Lion and Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

And it’s free! (Although – as always – please donate if you find software useful…)

“Scheduled sending and email reminders”. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for all these years. Great.

It’s a clever extension for Gmail. Have a look at their website and their videos and you’ll understand the idea and what it’s doing.

I’ve been hearing about Boomerang for a while, but I never really tried their service. Well, now I have and I think it fits Gmail great.

I can really recommend this tool — especially if you’re using Gmail professionally.

Great initiative, and an addictive game — especially if you like typography.

I sincerely hope the art of good kerning, leading and tracking never will be forgotten. Besides beautiful fonts, in the end really what makes great typography great.

For you who might be interested: This website displays letters from various font families — and all animation, the rendering and movement of the letters is apparently achieved by using the Raphaël JavaScript library.

This is one really big feature in a tiny little browser extension. It’s supposed to bring remote desktop features to your browser — in this case Google Chrome.

If it actually works, I’d consider it totally awesome for two reasons:

1. A free remote desktop application, built right into your browser, and distributed as a simple extension. Piece of cake to install, and available for everybody — not only computer magicians and geeks.

2. Since Google Chrome is cross-platform, this would imply that this extension works between Macs and PC’s, too. Not bad for one single remote desktop application, built upon your browser!

JavaScript framework for making (mobile) web applications that interacts with a local, persistent storage.

Works with all modern browsers using WebKit (Chrome, Safari and MobileSafari). It also has adapters to Google Gear.

It uses JSON extensively. All data is stored and read as JSON. So, instead of using a classic remote server-side database like MySQL, MongoDB or CouchDB, you save everything as JSON — locally.

From their website:

“a lawnchair is sorta like a couch except smaller and outside. perfect for html5 mobile apps that need a lightweight, adaptive, simple and elegant persistence solution.”

Goals and features of Kod (directly copied from their website):

• Fully concurrent — loading files, syntax highlighting, etc is distributed across available CPU cores. Minimal waiting time. Integrated scripting environment based on Node.js.
• Written from scratch with modern OS X 10.6 APIs providing maximum OS integration while avoiding reinvention of the wheel.
• Sports a Chromium-like user interface where tabs can be torn off and moved between windows.
• Allows editing (although not saving, currently) remote files accessible over HTTP or HTTPS.
• Styling of the editor (not only the syntax highlighting) through regular CSS 3.
• Comes with support for over 65 different languages/syntaxes which can easily be edited or extended (Kod uses the same format as GNU Syntax Highlight).

About Mac OS X and great text editors

I have sadly realized that TextMate won’t be my default text editor for the rest of my life.

I have used TextMate since 2006 and I love it. It was the first text editor that made sense to met, and I actually understand the core of the application. And I admire how much you can extend TextMate with bundles.

I have never used any other editor — more than just briefly. I use Coda and SubEthaEdit for a few specific tasks, but TextMate has always been my main choice and my overall favorite app.

Sadly, the development activity of TextMate these days seems low. New bug fixes and smaller new features are still being pushed out, but there’s nothing really new. This has been the case many years now, but after the release of OS X Lion, it became so much more obvious.

A few examples: There’s no support for full-screen mode, one of many new built-in features in Lion. TextMate doesn’t support Versions. And it doesn’t take advantage of Lion’s new and powerful Auto Save features, either…

Copycat, now available on Windows

A couple of years ago, I first noticed Sublime Text. It was apparently a clone of TextMate.

However, it had a couple of unique and cool features — like the document overview, a tabbed UI and generally a more modern, darker interface.

And the killer feature: It worked with every single TextMate bundle out there.

So, all functionality people over the years had tailored to extend TextMate, now suddenly made an app for Windows better, too. That felt a bit wrong to me.

What felt even more wrong was that the most fresh text editor app out there was for Windows only — there wasn’t a sign about a Mac OS X version anywhere.

That’s unusual. Everyone who knows anything about Mac and Windows, knows that the quality of Mac apps are so much higher — despite category. Mac OS X apps are generally more beautiful, easier to use and more powerful than their Windows equivalents.

Apparently, this wasn’t the case with the new app Sublime Text for Windows. It was fresh and cool and Windows only.

So, while it quickly replaced Notepad++ at work for me, it didn’t change how I worked when using a Mac.

Sublime Text for Mac

This was the case until not so long ago. Sublime Text 2 (Beta) is currently available for Mac, as well as Windows and Linux.

How I work today and more about Sublime Text

I still use TextMate a lot. But I try — when I remember — to launch Sublime Text instead. I have a lot of learning to do:

• Which settings should you know about, and which preferences should you understand?
• How do you install and use TextMate bundles (.tmbundle)?
• I need to re-learn a lot of keyboard commands.

Which text editor do you use?

Interview with Jonathan Ive.

Will I need to pay the customs in Sweden?

Gorgeous site. Product-specific layout and appearance.

Not often I get the chance to say something like this:

Doesn’t this seem very generous of Microsoft? 25 GB of free online storage.

(Just came across SkyDive. I haven’t actually tried it, so I don’t know anything about the functionality or quality of the service.)

Let’s say this is a good service, then 25 GB from Microsoft is way better than Apple’s