Category Archives: Tech

The write window

WriteRoom’s great as a full screen editor, but it has a hidden beauty as a windowed text editor too.
Look at it - gorgeous simplicity, green-on-black loveliness, and a live word count in the window’s title bar. I shall say that bit again: a live word count in the title bar. That’s the one feature [...]

Screenlog


Error message of the month


Visigami

Visigami is an app and a screensaver. It looks for pictures based on your search terms, and wafts them across your screen in a dreamy sort of manner. Odd.

Gelaskin your Mac

I like the look of some of these Gelaskins; a brand name for flashy stickers that cover the entire surface area of your laptop’s lid and make it look even trendier than it did before. Thirty of your American bucks, which works out at about half a whisper over here in the UK.

Print writing versus web writing

I made this for my recent presentation about web writing. A lot of it is not new to expert webessionals like you, but to my audience on the day most of it was new. Might even have been interesting. I’m putting it here so I don’t mislay it.

Print writing
Web writing

Adverts come first
Adverts come second

The writer [...]

Unrestricted access

I dunno about you, but I get a little twitchy about installers that expect to have “Unrestricted access” to the rest of my computer’s system.

Where have all the cheap, simple, low-cost, long-battery-life mobile computers gone?

It’s astonishing how hard it can be to find a small, simple, low-cost, long-battery-life mobile computer. I should know: I’ve been looking for one for ages.
I want something very small and simple, with just a browser and a plain text editor on board. I want to be able to go out all day and just [...]

Laura Francis on project management

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Originally uploaded by Pink Pixie

Listen to Laura. She knows.

The “I’m feeling lucky” presentation technique

My presentation in dev mode, as post-its on my office wall
So, like I said yesterday, I don’t do a lot of presentations. And, like I said yesterday, after finding a pretty fundamental flaw in Apple’s presentation app Keynote, I didn’t want to use it to display slides in front of a roomful of people. So [...]