Category: Laboratory

  • Boxee and Apple TV, can’t have one w/out the other #cordcutting

    After about a week with this new TV exclusively on Boxee, I miss the grand polish and simplicity of Apple TV. The YouTube Leanback app on Boxee was driving me absolutely nuts and the flakiness/inconsistency of the other apps made me want to throw …

  • Mashable Howto: Get the Most Out of Google Maps

    Jennifer Van Grove from the high-powered social media site Mashable wrote a great, comprehensive article about Google Maps and how to take advantage of its various features beyond simple address searches. Excerpt: Google Maps has become the standard mapping utility for everything from getting directions and finding nearby food options to viewing the surface of the…

  • TextMate: Extending the HTML Hyperlink Helper

    Macromates‘ great text editing application, TextMate, contains powerful Ruby-based scripts to allow for simple language scope editing. The HTML bundle, in particular, contains many ready-made HTML snippets which can be inserted into your web development workflow with a simple TAB-trigger or key combination. For example, if I type img then hit the ⇥ (tab) key then TextMate will…