Stuff I’m Playing With (This Week)

  • Firefox 3 was finally released out of Beta, and it’s pretty sweet. I’m using a bunch of extensions that are helping out my productivity and workflow quite a bit.
  • I’m using the ScribeFire extension in FF3 to post this to the blog.
  • I’m using the Remember the Milk extension to flesh out a Tasks pane that’s available from my Gmail interface. I’m also using the RTM extension for Google calendar to keep track of my tasks by day, in case I’m in there, too.
  • I went through the tutorials for SproutCore, which is a Ruby application to produce RIAs using only HTML and JavaScript with OS X-like interface features. It’s the basis for Apple’s MobileMe applications. And, for once, unlike everyone else trying SproutCore, I’m having absolutely no issues (compared to the people on the GoogleGroup for SC who couldn’t get it to work until this morning).
  • I’ve been playing with JSON out of Flickr with jQuery to build cute little slideshows using Flickr’s API.
  • I’ve also been playing with some Flickr/MooTools/SlimBox for nice gallery features. This particular feature was helped a lot by Ted Forbes’ Satellite code.
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