I wanted to add all the photos from a web gallery to my personal photo organizer. I thought first of using Automator to script this task because I know it works, but a potentially simpler method came to mind.
I dragged the URL of the thumbnail page from Safari’s address field (a .webloc URL pointer file) [...]
0 Comment » I updated my iTunes visual browsing design for the new iTunes/iLife ‘06 look. No major changes, but the visual quality is significantly better and there are a few ideas shown that are not in the earlier versions.
iTunes Visual Browsing, Revision 3 [1.5MB PDF]
(For example,) we wanted a flat filesystem, where you wouldn’t put your files in directories, but you would tag them with keywords, and instead of saying “Open this directory,” you’d say “Open all my email and send it to this person.” In the end we realized that directories are nice and the industry has [...]
I took a minute to update the look of the iTunes Dock badge I posted long ago.
The orange for in-progress and green for completed are consistent with the status icons displayed in iTunes when importing from a CD and would make it easier to visually determine the status than when using red for both.
As with all annotations and chapter titles, it would be nice to have QuickTime video subtitles indexed by Spotlight. I have no clue as to the technical feasibility of this, but the text of the displayed frame is searchable within QuickTime Player (Command-R), so I would think it could be done.
I am trying to [...]
Keyboard accessibility suggestions for Measure Map, the web statistics service from Adaptive Path.
Type-Ahead Link Selection
Make the text labels of the four top-level sections links. This enables the use of the type-ahead link selection feature found in Firefox, Camino, and OmniWeb.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Assign access keys to the four primary navigation links:
v for Visitors
l for Links
c for [...]
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The text is a quote from the Human Interface Guidelines.
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I am Daniel J. Wilson; a musician (drums), interaction designer, and proud member of the reality-based community.
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