… via the Dropzone Website. Thanks to the Aptonic guys the download is now hosted on their Server and Dropbox Dropzone is now also entered in the official repositories over at Github.
Now it’s time to have Dropbox finally release an API to interface with it more easily, so I can get rid of the ugly way to have the user enter their own (Numeric) ID.
sometimes really arbitrary, window size. Playing around with Javascript for about 5 min got me a solution, which isn’t perfect jet, but works at least
Just drag this Link to your Bookmarksbar, and when you click it the Window will resize to your full Screen Size. The only problem is that this stops working a soon as there is more than 1 Tab open. If anybody got a solution please comment.
Today I finally got around to download and setup my development environment for WebOS (Palm Pre). Since the Pre is supposed to hit Germany via O2 in October it seems like a great Idea to look at it now to see if it’s the device for me.
So far I gotta say the whole experience feels kind of clunky, I’m sad to say. The simulator does not work out of the box but requires some permission setting to work with the Palm Eclipse Plugin, I got it to work quite easy googleing the error, but it still leaves a bad feeling.
Looking around in the documentation I have to say I will miss Interface builder, but oh well I guess I get used to it (and JavaScript) sooner or later. So for now I guess I gotta check out the SDK before the Pre hits Germany, so I can decide what to buy Palm Pre or iPhone 3GS (from Italy).
I finally got around to implementing a nice way to enable switching between Menubar an Dock Mode for Cryptr. Even though this was actually harder than I expected it’s working fine now and you are able to switch between Menubar and Dock Mode via the Preferences (restart is required so).
I guess I’ll be making a new Video soon about Cryptr because the other one is looking and sounding horrible after all.
Enjoy
Edit: We are up to Version 1.0.5 now due to some bug I found right after uploading Version 1.0 so be sure to Update once more sorry
First a little Update. Sadly Espresso just kept on using 100% CPU or Syntax highlight didn’t always work (especially in PHP) so I switched to Panic’s Coda, seems to me to be a much more polished Tool, sadly investing 99$ seems to ask a lot from my Student Bank Account. But I guess I will buy it sooner or later since its just the Webeditor I was waiting for. Also I decided to code the Theme from scratch without using anything as a baseline, which makes me understand the code much better and also make it really mine ;).
Here is kind of a step by step of what If done so far build my own theme:
Now its time to style my Blog.
I’ve been switching between themes in the Background for quite some time now, but nothing really seems to satisfy my needs in respect of design and look and feel. So finally after having about 3 days of time on my Hand right now I decided to build my own theme from the ground up. There are 2 possible outcomes:
So First of all I had to get a working environment setup. I did this on my Mac locally to get some quick testing going and also not to interfere with my Blog. Here is what I did:
I already got some graphics build using Lineform with which I’m quite happy, and since they are Vector based scaling is not an Issue.
After all this Setup now it’s time to read some Documentation
I’m going to keep posting ‘til this Theme is done or abandoned. Stay tuned.
Thanks to Tim from Surfbits Cryptr has been mentioned on the MacReview Cast. Maybe some people will download and use it so I can get some feedback. I very happy that it was mentioned and now I actually feel kind of pushed to do some more developing on it, so be sure to sent your feature requests and comments. As a developer I have to say I really love how friendly the Mac Community is, and how welcome it makes me feel.
You can watch the Screencast on the Cryptr Log in small resolution or via this link in full resolution.
I simply don’t get it, there are like a 1001 simple ways to encrypt and decrypt files, which are really safe, and still nobody uses them. There are the times I get asked via EMail for passwords, or I here of really sensitive data getting out because, guess what I was laying there unencrypted on some network.
So maybe there are people who just don’t know what’s out there, so here is a quick roundup of what I use:
First of all there is Steel for storing my Passwords in a safe place, it’s simple light weight, and safe using the Blowfish cipher, which was among the finalist for the next NSA standart cipher. It’s just 9$, and of course there is always Keychain on the Mac, but I like to keep my Passwords (and more) in one easy to manage file, not bound to a build in app.
Second there is Truecrypt it’s great, it’s cross Platform (Win, Mac, Linux), and it works. It’s great for creating encrypted Images for syncing via the Internet, or to store all kinds of files. It’s been doing a great job for me since Version 4 and still is. Maybe a little over the top for sending just a quick file via EMail but great for your USB Stick or Web Space storage.
Third I just gotta promote my own Cryptr It’s for those times where you just need some fast way to encrypt a single file to send via EMail, or maybe some important Document on your Mac needs to be safe. It’s Drag&Drop Mac like and 100% safe using OpenSSL and AES 128Bit (for those who want to know ;) ).
So that’s it for me. Of course there is also S/MIME for EMail and such but thats a different story.
Blogo is missing one Important feature for me, maybe I just didn’t find it but not being able to edit the html with which a Image is Posted ist very annoying.
For me that makes the WordPress Plugin Lightbox, which shows Images in a Nice way, hard to use, and therefor Blogo not that useable for me either. In Ecto you can just edit those tags in the Preferences for each Blog.
So now its
Blogo 1 : 1 Ecto
Let’s see whats next.
I’ve been using Dropbox for quite some time now and been quite happy with it. What recently got kind of annoying to me that it is impossible to Sync folders besides the Dropbox folder, and also that, on another machine, I can’t select what to sync. Since I own a Netbook with only 8GB of Space (about 2GB left after OS and App install) it’s impossible to sync my Dropbox now, which kind of defeats the point of having it. So I was looking around and found a couple Products which seem to do kind of the same thing, but always a little different.
First there is ZumoDrive which looks great at first but sadly I also only Sync one “Folder” (actually it’s a Drive, but oh well… ), also I found the free 1GB plan to check it out to small, so I moved one. After all I seems to be a great product, it’s just not for my need.
Well that’s it for now. And check out Sugarsync
Code from the sideline 