Briefly is a fun little Mac app for combining piles of photos into a fast-paced video. You simply drag a stack of photos from any other application or folder onto the main window, and it will compile the video. You can sort the photos on the main screen of the application, and add a soundtrack from an audio file or MP3. You can see a quick sample I made on YouTube.
apps, giveaway, macappstore, macos, photography, video
This is just a quick reminder that there’s only five days left to buy a t-shirt from my first-ever t-shirt campaign. I’m excited that I met (and doubled) my sales goal, but I wouldn’t want anyone to miss out because they didn’t get the news. Don’t forget, the more t-shirts you have, the longer you can go between laundry runs.
apparel, marketing
I was building a ridiculous Saved Search that gathered all of my web-design-related bookmarks and notes into one place, based on keywords and tags. I don’t even remember why I started doing this, and HoudahSpot would gladly have saved me from the issue, but I was too far gone.
finder, search, spotlight
I ended up going a little crazy with YouTube embeds on the site this week, and my load times suffered greatly. I had just added lazy loading for post images and seen some speed gains, but the Flash embeds were killing me. I needed the click-to-load feature that I’ve seen on other sites.
jekyll, lazyloading, video, youtube
The Giveaway Robot (he needs a better name1) has named the lucky winners in the SliceReader giveaway. He claims to have notified them all with a stunning email he generated himself and sent through my GMail relay to avoid being spammed. Hopefully. Just in case, here are the winners, contact me if you didn’t hear from “GR”.
giveaway, macappstore, macos
For as much as I follow web technologies, I really didn’t comprehend the full extent of possibilities until very recently. To that end, David Walsh has curated a great list of demos. Warning: they may explode your brain1.
canvas, html
I pushed a new version of Slogger to the GitHub repository this morning. For those who don’t care about all the nitty gritty, just head for the main page and download the zip.
slogger, twitter
I updated the GrabLinks bookmarklet one more time tonight, and anyone with it currently installed should start seeing the changes immediately. If you still need it, drag the link below to your toolbar.
bookmarklet, grablinks, jquery, markdown
Another day, another version of GrabLinks (the bookmarklet for grabbing all links from a chosen section of a webpage as a Markdown list). The first major change is that the bookmarklet is now auto-updating. It loads the actual script from the Gist and will therefore always load the latest stable version. It pops up a small “Loading” indicator until the script loads and, if needed, injects jQuery. If it’s a fast load, you may just see a brief flash of white in the upper left corner, so…
bookmarklet, grablinks, markdown
