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About the possibility of switching to Scriptogram

20 May 2012 · 16 comments

I’m done with WordPress. There has to be something else. Tumblr? Nope. Kirby? Nope. What about something completely different? Dropbox? Maybe…

Alex Cican:

Scriptogr.am is an app that connects to your Dropbox account and allows you to host a blog or dynamic website. The blog posts, or pages, are simple Markdown2 files located inside Dropbox>Apps>scriptogram>posts.

Last week I spoke with Andreas Pihlström, the creator of Scriptogr.am, he seems like a nice guy with big plans for his service. Our small chat got me thinking. What is it I like about tumblr? The fact that I don’t have to think about the software behind it. What I don’t like? The fact that I don’t own my posts. There is no access to the database, no weekly backup, nothing. Also I’m done with WordPress. Yes, it’s able to solve all problem anyone could ever have but the only thing I really want is to post stuff on my blog.

The awesome thing about Scriptogram is that I have a folder containing all of my posts, every one of it lays there, editable, printable and removable. I don’t need a bulky backend anymore, my new-post-window would look like this:

Yep, that’s nothing else than iA Writer. Saved to my Dropbox this would result in a new post on my blog. Looks nice and feels unfamiliar uncluttered. And it gets even better. Scriptogram offers a bookmarklet that’s designed to write linked list posts like I often do:

I’m ready to switch. Philipp helped me to export all of my posts to .md files. I’m sitting on 3200 posts, waiting to move to their new home. The only problem: Scriptogram currently does not offer a feature for custom link structures. So there is no way for me to move UARRR.org to Dropbox and Scriptogram because every link that points to a post on this blog would result in a 404 error. But Andreas is working on it and I’m looking forward to switch.

I miss the feeling of owning this blog, everything is burried in databases I don’t understand. I could invest some time and learn a bit MySQL database nonsense, or I’m just cool with the fact that I don’t want to screw around with a big CMS and nerd stuff instead of writing posts.

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Some of you may have noticed: This post is written in English. And I plan to write all the upcoming posts in English too. I’m not a native speaker and I’m sure this piece has mistakes all over it. Feel free to write a comment to inform me about flaws. Please explain why something is wrong, I’m trying to get better here.

Updated to CS6 and bugged out by the new vector snapping?

14 May 2012 · 3 comments

Photoshop CS6 introduced a new “snap to pixel grid” behavior for vector tools. It’s awesome and comes in quite handy if you try to work like Dustin Curtis suggests. But what if one of your vector objects is not as pixel fitted as you want it to be?

In previous versions of Photoshop all you had to do was to select the right anchor points and use the arrow keys and different levels of zoom to move them in the right direction until they where aligned with the pixel grid.

The new behavior makes sure that this is not so easy anymore. Instead of eliminating half pixels, it will move the anchor points by one pixel, regardless of your actual level of zoom, so you’ve got the same mess, but one pixel in another direction. I’ve solved that problem by disabling the right checkbox everytime I needed it, but that felt just not right.

Mr. Idiot here built something that’s quite amazing. These two Photoshop actions allow to toggle above mentioned setting by hitting F6 and Shift+F6. It’s different compared to CS5, but you’ll get used to it. Thanks, Idiot!

@UARRR Es war eine Aktion, die ich auf Twitter geteilt. cl.ly/GWxF

— Visual Idiot (@idiot) May 11, 2012

Sponsor: AXE Anarchy. Für Männer und Frauen + Verlosung

14 May 2012 · 171 comments

Weltneuheit! AXE gibt es jetzt auch für ~~Mädchen~~, ~~Frauen~~, Damen! AXE bringt direkt zwei neue Düfte auf den Markt, von denen einer das erste Mal speziell für das weibliche Geschlecht gedacht ist.

Die Pressemitteilung verkündet Folgendes für AXE Anarchy for him:

Die betörend fruchtige Frische vermählt die Essenz reifer Granatäpfel und knackiger Brombeeren mit Noten von Sandelholz. Der männliche Duft von edlem Zedernholz und feinem Lavendel umschließt Mädchen sanft und zieht sie in den Bann.

Aber im Ernst: Es wird wärmer, man nennt die folgende Jahreszeit Sommer und vertraut mir, ich fahre oft genug U-Bahn um zu wissen, dass die meisten von euch zwar denken, dass sie nicht nach Schweiß riechen, damit aber Unrecht haben. Probiert’s hiermit, ehrlich. Ihr Stinker.

Mädels, die Pressemitteilung blubbert dies über Axe Anarchy for her:

Blühende Blumen und cremige Vanille verleihen dem Duft eine anziehende Samtigkeit. Der verführerisch fruchtige Duft balanciert Noten saftige Brombeeren, Birnen und Honigmelonen mit einem zarten Sandelholz-Aroma. Verspielt florale Noten von Alpenveilchen, Orchideen und chinesischen Magnolien bringen Jungs um den Verstand.

Klingt zwar etwas nach Obstkorb, aber auch gar nicht schlecht. Außerdem, gleiche Regeln wie für Jungs: Niemand, wirklich niemand will etwas anderes als künstlich erzeugte Gerüche an euch riechen. So schön die Natürlichkeit des Körpers auch ist, bitte riecht nicht natürlich, sondern nach Sandelholz und Brombeeren mit Birnen. Und ein bisschen Sahne. Mhhh.

Wie auch immer, den Anarchy for him ist in allen erdenklichen Variationen zu haben, als Bodyspray, Shower Gel, Eau de Toilette und auch als AXE ANARCHY Shampoo und Cream-Gel nämlich. Für die Mädels gibt es vorerst nur das Bodyspray in limitierter Auflage. Probiert’s!

Verlosung

Aber UARRR.org wird nicht ohne grund als philanthropischster Blog des Landes bezeichnet, darum können vier von euch etwas gewinnen. Nämlich zwei Mal 12 Dosen von Anarchy for Men und zwei Mal zwölf Dosen Anarchy for Women. Dazu bekommt jeder der Gewinner ein Handtuch von AXE. Das klingt doch gut, oder? Eine frische Dose für jeden Monat des Jahres!

Was ihr dafür tun müsst? Einen Kommentar schreiben. Das wars. Einsendeschluss ist Freitag, der 18. Mai. Viel Glück!

Sparrow 1.2 for iPhone is here…
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You were more than 16 000 helping us on our Apple quest to get the VoIP privilege. We can’t thank you enough for your support. Unfortunately, Apple has confirmed that they are not willing to do any exception to the rule and that Sparrow will NOT be granted with the privilege.

This means we’ll have to do Push on our side and that it will be integrated as a yearly subscription into Sparrow’s future update.

I’d give Sparrow for iPhone a chance to be my primary e-mail app on iOS and push notifications are obviously on their way but that’s not going to change the fact that it will never be as deeply implemented in iOS as Mail.app is. I don’t think it’ll work for me.

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14. May 2012 · 7 comments

IICNS: Only the best iOS Apps icons
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I don’t know why sites like pttrns.com and IICNS need a name that’s impossible to remember but that changes nothing about how awesome and helpfull they are.

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14. May 2012 · No comments

In Flux
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Trent Walton:

So, how will the retina change the shape of the web, and do we need to rush to update everything we’ve ever built? Of course not, part of building for the web is accepting that everything is in a constant state of flux—there isn’t enough time and money in the world to “fix” the internet every time a company releases a new technology.

Trent Walton on how those fancy new retina displays could or should influence our work as people who build websites.

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14. May 2012 · No comments

Recommendation: I Was A Warehouse Wage Slave

11 May 2012 · 4 comments

I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave

»As the sun gets lower in the curt November sky, I thank the woman for her help. When I start toward the door, she repeats her "No. 1 rule of survival" one more time."Leave your pride and your personal life at the door." If there's any way I'm going to last, she says, tomorrow I have to start pretending like I don't have either.«

Marcel Wichmann recommended this article from motherjones.com

Do you remember the guy who worked as an undercover car salesman? Mac McClelland worked undercover as a picker in one of those gigantic warehouses where big e-commerce companies store their goods and discovers unbearable working conditions. Definitely worth reading.

Marcel, what are you doing the whole day?

11 May 2012 · 27 comments

Somebody asked me recently, if there is enough to do at QUOTE.fm to fill a 40 hour week of work. That wasn’t the first time one of us got asked something like that, so I’ll try and describe how we spend our day at work.

At first there is the obvious stuff, if we decide to introduce embeddable recommendations, somebody has to build them. We’re talking about everything all the time. What’s the best way to embed something on websites? What are sites like Twitter, Vimeo and Youtube doing? What’s good, what’s something we rather don’t want to imitate? How can we improve the stuff others have already indroduced?

If we think everything is clear, I’ll start designing some layouts. This could take three hours or even two weeks, depending on the complexity of the topic and my ability to come up with the right idea. If everyone is okay with my work, Martin begins to build the stuff in HTML/CSS/JS that needs some time, followed up by fixing bugs and tests for different browsers (Hi, IE7!). Finally Philipp’s and Florian’s work starts, they build stuff I don’t understand. And then, after a week of work, there are embeddable recommendations.

That’s nice, all done, that was easy, right? Yep, but what if you notice that you didn’t think about responsive layouts and your way of embedding recommendations — iFrames — is not the best and breaks if a layout is flexible? That’s the time you decide to build the whole thing new, no iFrames, instead the user gets the whole code to paste into his website. Three people, eight days of work and everything that has been accomplished are lousy embeddable recommendations. Wow.

We’re trying to do stuff right, and to do things right you need time. You need to fail to try again and it’s getting better every time you try. That’s the beauty.

Now take embeddable recommendations as an expample and think about stuff like plugins for every browser, an iPad app, a newsletter, a video to explain QUOTE.fm, Read, a redesign of user profiles and so much other projects which are in our pipeline. We have so much stuff to do that everyone of us has several to-do lists on which he’s working at the same time. It’s awesome.

Regarding our upcoming iPad app, we’re basically building QUOTE.fm for a second time. Everything has to feel and look different. And we’re adding even more new stuff. Our version of “Read Later” is coming with it and it’s going to be awesome. There are so many nice little details you can work on and they are worth the time.

Today we’ve tweaked the “New Recommendation” window. Yes, you can spend an hour fixing the animation of a window that falls down. Yes, it’s necessary to compare 0.2 with 0.3 seconds more than one time. The result looks amazing and it’s going to be fun to use.

Then there are brainstormings, e-mails, meetings and kitty livestreams that need to be watched. So, trust us. We’re not going to run out of work. Fortunately.

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Peter Vidani on the Evolution of the Tumblr Dashboard
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Peter Vidani:

Our photos and videos are too small. We’ll still be stripping stuff away, still whittling posts down to something simpler. On a photo post for example — it’s a white box. First there’s a line of blue stuff, then a photo, then words, then maybe more blue stuff if it’s tagged. We could bleed the photo to the edgesof the white box. We could hide things you don’t need immediately, like tags and source and username and post icons — the blue parts — until you hover over them. What you’re left with is an avatar, a photo without a border, and a caption (if that). If we can get rid of the right column, we can center these things on the page. That bothers me now — that once you get down the page, everything is off center.

It’s always nice to read that even companies like Tumblr are out there, solving the same problems as we do day after day at QUOTE.fm.

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8. May 2012 · No comments

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About the possibility of switching to Scriptogram

Updated to CS6 and bugged out by the new vector snapping?

Sponsor: AXE Anarchy. Für Männer und Frauen + Verlosung

Verlosung

Sparrow 1.2 for iPhone is here…➝

IICNS: Only the best iOS Apps icons➝

In Flux➝