You know those drawings where you see a beautiful woman but the rest of the world sees an old hag? Well, where I saw “This UX”, the rest of the world saw, “This SUX”. And that did suck, but I couldn’t think of a better option. Here’s the story of my new blog name.
This article explains how I use the wonderful CrashPlan product to backup our family’s network of Mac OS X computers.
Update — Since writing this article, I’ve switched back to OmniFocus.
When CulturedCode finally announced the public availability of their cloud-based syncing system, I decided to switch back to Things, from OmniFocus, for my task-management tool. Although I’m quite happy with the switch, there’s one killer feature that (for me) is missing from the app, which I’ll describe in this article.
I have a proposal for a special use of the @reply mechanism, that would allow Twitter to better handle growing conversations.
Use Keyboard Maestro to help remind you to turn on your time tracker.
One of the more popular article on my blog—I’ve decided to go on a social media diet.
Notes I took while reading an interview with Notational Velocity’s, author, Zachary Schneirov.
I would have never imagined, but this article about batch processing videos with HandBrake is one of the most popular on my blog.
This post is about a critical problem that I’m having with MarketCircle’s Daylite product, and is mainly written for Google, so that other people who…
This article at 9to5 Mac talks about the number the apps available on each leading mobile platform. To put things in perspective, they show a…
Although it was signed by @stop, this post to the Twitter blog wasn’t written by the same Doug Bowman that’s been writing over at stopdesign.com…
This article discusses my use of Hazel on my home MacOS X server to make network transfers to my Drobo archive much faster, taking full use of my gigabit network.
I recently watched this interesting video from Amy Jo Kim about the application of game mechanics to functional systems — in particular social systems. For…
In a Wall Street Journal article related to Twitter’s settling of a privacy-related case, Consumer Protection Bureau Director David Vladeck states: Consumers who use social…
It’s always difficult to tell potential customers that we simply don’t know how long it’s going to take to build a software system, if said system is moderately complex. This is one reason we avoid fixed-priced projects — when the cost of building something is unknown, you want to make sure both you and the customer are on the same side of the table. It’s also why the principle of building the simplest system possible is so important.
Varied reasons for following people on Twitter (including sheer imprudence) has resulted in a stream disproportionately populated with tweets from people that I’m either not…
Having long switched to better solutions — e.g. Dropbox and Backblaze — I’d kept my JungleDisk account around because, uh… well, I’m not really sure anymore. Anyway, that’s besides the point. This morning, I logged into the JungleDisk billing interface to change my billing method from one AMEX card to another AMEX card. Simple enough, right? Wrong.
So this blog used live at thisusersexperience.com. When I first registered that name, I thought, “Hmmm, that’s kind of long. I sure wouldn’t look forward…
One of the things I’m really enjoying being part of this relatively-nascent — in the big picture, as in “Usenet before the AOL gateway” sense…
Communicating well in 140 characters is one of the newer dimensions of “communication design,” and its importance was discussed at length some time ago by Rands in, “The Art of the Tweet.” Just like blog articles, I often draft tweets outside of my Twitter client, in a dedicated writing application. Since I sometimes have URLs, references and other text sitting alongside the drafted tweets, I really needed a quick and efficient way to count the characters of the tweets themselves.
I remember, as if it were yesterday. I was sitting in the ground station laboratory at the European Space Agency, needing to setup a test…
Inspired by Steven Frank’s description of his own system, I thought I’d take a moment to document how I store and backup our important data.
Testing my blog after upgrading to the latest version of WordPress, I noticed that blank pages were being returned after posting comments. Some Googling and…
REPLACING MY MACBOOK’S HARD DRIVE WITH A SOLID-STATE DRIVE (SSD) has proven to be the most dramatic computer upgrade I’ve ever made. The startup time…
I’ve recently noticed poor 3G network speeds when using my iPhone, and wanted to conduct some tests to identify which of the following could be…
