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WebnoteHappy Mini-Review

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

WebnoteHappy is a desktop bookmark management tool from Happy Apps. Author Luis de la Rosa has focused on making it easy to quickly add bookmarks from any browser, and give them a text note and tags if desired. The application also makes it easy to import and export a variety of formats. I haven’t used […]

Frameworks, Kits and Caboodles

Monday, May 15th, 2006

John Gruber is annoyed by the simultaneous use of “Web Kit” and “WebKit” when ostensibly referring to the same thing. While his complaint boils down to allegations of editorial laziness, there may be a more benign cause. In any case his post opens up a can of very interesting worms. I think the confusion comes […]

The F-Word

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

What is the difference between FREE, Free, and free? You’ll rarely see the lower-cased version in marketing, rarely see the all-caps one in prose, and the one in the middle is downright tricky. There is such a plethora of meanings and implications associated with this common word, that it may be due the same awe-inspired […]

Vintage Code

Monday, May 8th, 2006

I got sent down a path of nostalgic code review today. After spotting Wouldja Software’s RoboNuts, I couldn’t help but wonder if the source to my implementation of the same game from more than 10 years ago was still on my computer. I was beginning to think it was lost forever to some floppy disk […]