William Donaldson

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Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:50:50 -0500

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Froglin

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:39:36 -0500

Froglin

mfwit: What kind of spam-bot disguises it self as iTunes?...

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:38:26 -0500

mfwit:

What kind of spam-bot disguises it self as iTunes? Obviously not a good one as this still ended up in the spam bin.

I got this too. Didn’t end up in my spam-bin, though, and it was actually highlighted the same color that iTunes emails are.

mfwit: Mythbusters

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:27:42 -0500

mfwit:

Mythbusters

2009.

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:30:40 -0500

This year is coming to a close. In the next few days, I’ll be posting up my favorite albums of the year, and maybe some other stuff too! Follow me on twitter for updates as they happen.

Deastro - Biophelia

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:23:00 -0400

Deastro - Biophelia:

This week’s song of… the week (fortnight?) is from my new favorite label, Ghostly International. It is catchy and it is awesome and I really am too tired to describe it other than that it is synthpop-ish indie pop with a guy singing and generally being really awesome all around. It’s off of his semi-recent album Moondagger, which is probably going to be my next physical album purchase. It’s that good.

Awaken Snow Leopard Bug

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:28:56 -0400

Awaken Snow Leopard Bug

Cheap Dinosaurs - Hot Plate (Live)

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:35:53 -0400

Cheap Dinosaurs - Hot Plate (Live):

It’s Monday… and you know what that means… Song of the Week! This week, we hear a pretty rad 8-bit dance tune…

8BP100 is finally here, and with it comes the first Cheap Dinosaurs track I’ve ever listened to (as far as I can remember, at least). I’ve known about them since forever, what with them seeming to appear on every Pulsewave artist list (that I remember, at least)… in short, I’ve heard the name, but not seen the face, and now that I have seen the face, I’m not dissapointed. Of course, I’ve known that music like this can come out of Game Boys, and it has - and every year, as they come closer to terms with the software they have available, they’re able to make better-and-better sounding music. In short, I’m going to stop blabbering and let you just listen to this.

Melee Beats - Filtered Friday

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:03:33 -0400

Melee Beats - Filtered Friday:

I hope I remember to actually do this weekly. I might make it monthly if I keep forgetting.

Melee has been an up-and-coming disco producer for… well, quite a while now. He recently posted up this awesome… funky… thing to his thesixtyone page after featuring it in one of his weekly disco mixes, from which the song gets its name (or is it the other way around?). It has horns, and due to how awesome it is, it’s my pick for Song of the Week for the week of August 21st! I guess you could call it “house music” if you wanted to, but he’d probably smack you upside the head, just cause he’s badass like that. With tunes like this, though, it’s a wonder he isn’t being smothered in label deals.

thesixtyone

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:43:00 -0400

thesixtyone:

This is the best website. It’s this music discovery thing, except it’s played like an RPG. You level up by listening to music, and finding awesome music before other people. It is extremely fun, and I have found so much good music. If you decide to check it out, my username is biiaru (like usual) if you want to subscribe!

Mew - Introducing Palace Players

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:09:00 -0400

Mew - Introducing Palace Players:

When an album’s name is No More Stories Are Told Today I’m Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is Grey I’m Tired Let’s Wash Away, you know it’s got to be good, right? Yeah, it’s a bit of an obnoxious name, but I’ve been awaiting this new album by Mew ever since I heard their classic Frengers, which has gone on to be one of my favorite albums of all time. The first single off the album is called Introducing Palace Players, and even the name brings to mind Bo Madsen’s (lead guitar) quote saying that Mew are “the world’s only indie stadium band,” if not just the song. In the meantime, you can also check out four more new songs from them (one of which, Repeaterbeater, is also on the new album) in addition to Introducing Palace Players on their No More Stories EP.

Engadget's review of the Palm Pre

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:41:23 -0400

Engadget's review of the Palm Pre:

I’m gonna be frank here: this makes me want the Palm Pre really, really badly. It’s a shame I’m gonna have to wait a year and a half to get it…

How to make Tweetie even sweeter

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:10:00 -0400

Tweetie for Mac by Atebits is a wonderful, wonderful Twitter client. It’s absolutely the best one I’ve ever used, bar none. It is the only good client for Mac, and perhaps the only good one at all. Notice that I just said ‘good’, not ‘great’. I’ve never seen a great client. Only mediocre ones and this one that’s pretty good. What I’m saying is that while it’s definitely the best client I’ve used, it could definitely use some improvements. Anyway, enough chit-chat — here are some features I want to see in the next version of Tweetie.

Better use of the sidebar:
- Slightly widen the sidebar and push the breadcrumb navigation up into top of window handlebar
- Ability to stick specific twitter users in your sidebar to just go see their tweets
- Same as above, but for searches/hashtags.
  - Maybe: when adding a new search to the sidebar, pop up a window that shows some random Flickr images in a search for that term to use as a sidebar icon, with an option to put in an image of your choice instead if you so choose
- Same as above, but for tweets - shows the discussions related to that tweet.
- Hovering over one of the above things would show the username/search term/hashtag/tweet content itself floating to the left of the icon
- Obviously, all of these things would be account-specific: you would see different ones depending on which account you have active at the moment. (Changeable in preferences for whiners)
- To delete, hold down the mouse button on an unused part of the sidebar and icons that were added start wiggling like the iPhone springboard. Drag them around to move them, drag them out of the window to remove them, and click on your user icon/elsewhere in the window/press esc/enter/spacebar to have them stop wigglin’.
- Dragging one out while not in delete mode makes it into a new window
Improve @-reply views:
- Search forward to find future @-replies in a discussion view (If I click on a tweet that’s part of a discussion, and there’s another tweet in that discussion that has come in since that, show that tweet as well)
- Branching for multiple-person discussions (double-click the first message in the discussion and see any replies to that no matter who they were by; click any message in a discussion and see any other branches in that discussion as well)
Improvements to the menu bar icon:
- If you have received an @-reply or DM, fade the application icon/menu bar icon to a different color (top is blue if new tweets, but fade to purple or aquamarine at bottom if new @-reply/DM?)
- Context menu when right-clicking for quitting, etc
Draggability:
- Drag a person’s name or icon from the Tweetie window into a tweet box to add that person/tweet as an @-reply
- Actually, drag anything anywhere.
  - Dragging into a non-tweetie window (IRC, etc) shows the url for that user or the text of that tweet (prepended with author’s handle)
  - Dragging a person into the sidebar makes a new sidebar icon just for them
  - Dragging a tweet into the sidebar creates a new sidebar icon for that discussion
Do more with tweets:
- Preference to have pressing enter in new tweet box send the tweet instead of adding a newline
- Ability to delete a tweet you sent
- Ability to “undo” sending of new tweets for 5-10 seconds after originally sent (perhaps just a more noticeable version of deleting tweets for that 5-10 seconds)
- Ability to un-favorite tweets
Some miscellaneous stuff:
- Growl support!
- Ability to change your Twitter site preferences within Tweetie
- Viewing a user’s profile in Tweetie should use their user page’s colors (fade in and out smoothly/nicely; option in prefs to turn off)

This is just the stuff I’ve thought of, of course - no doubt some of you have your own ideas on how Tweetie could be made even better. Let me know what you think.

mfwit: via scienceblogs.com Need I say more?

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:59:18 -0400

mfwit:

via scienceblogs.com

Need I say more?

So MacHeist has been a bit of a whirlwind ride this year. Becoming a moderator, losing our IRC, and...

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:58:55 -0400

So MacHeist has been a bit of a whirlwind ride this year. Becoming a moderator, losing our IRC, and generally being pushed around wherever the wind blew was kinda interesting. It was pretty fun, all things said and done.

Also, I’m definitely going to Binghamton. I sent in my acceptance letter. Also, I got accepted into all other 8 colleges I finished applying to - now THAT’s luck. Don’t know how that happened.

Still too lazy to finish the theme for this thing. I never update it, anyway.

By the way, everyone buy the MacHeist bundle! I want Espresso!

Oh.

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:47:48 -0500

I haven’t posted here in forever. Well, there goes THAT particular New Year’s resolution. Nobody ever keeps those.

Anyway, not that anyone cares, but I’m still working on the new theme for this thing. Hopefully it’ll be done soon. (You’ll need Safari and Myriad Pro to see it properly.)

Oh, and I got into Binghamton University as well! I’m thinking that if I could get into Binghamton, 2009 won’t suck THAT much. And, well, I did, so hopefully it won’t.

Awesome Offer: Free CSS book, No Strings Attached!

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:35:02 -0500

Awesome Offer: Free CSS book, No Strings Attached!:

Grab a legit copy of “The Art & Science Of CSS” as a PDF for free for the next 14 days just by following SitePoint on Twitter. Some marketing genius at work there—Twitter + Giveaway = Twitaway. Ha!

Obama Pound Juxtaposed With Awkward Bush Pound

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:22:32 -0500

Obama Pound Juxtaposed With Awkward Bush Pound:

‘nough said

MOTHER 3 Fan Translation COMPLETE

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:21:09 -0400

MOTHER 3 Fan Translation COMPLETE:

After nearly two years of development, Mother 3 is finally available fully translated into English. Download the patch and play this strange, funny, and heartrending sequel to the Super Nintendo…

MOTHER 3 Fan Translation COMPLETE -- Do It Yourself Devotion

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:20:29 -0400

MOTHER 3 Fan Translation COMPLETE -- Do It Yourself Devotion:

After nearly two years of development, Mother 3 is finally available fully translated into English. Download the patch and play this strange, funny, and heartrending sequel to the Super Nintendo…