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Archive for December, 2007

Note taking with Tomboy  

A to-do list in Tomboy

Last week I asked for some help finding a new note taking application. I was becoming frustrated with BasKet Note Pads because, despite all of its great features, it would intermittently delete notes when I moved them (obviously, unacceptable).
Otherwise, BasKet is a very good application for general note taking if you [...]

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Cure for sleep  

The cure for sleep is on the horizon! The cure for death won’t be far behind.

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5 dangerous things you should let your kids do  

Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, talks about our new wave of overprotected kids — and spells out 5 (and really, he’s got 6) dangerous things you should let your kids do. Allowing kids the freedom to explore, he says, will make them stronger and smarter and actually safer. TED Talks: Gever Tulley: 5 [...]

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Can anyone suggest a good desktop note-taking application?  

For a long while I was using Tadalist which I absolutely adored because of its simplicity. It made lists and you checked things off and it was wonderful. I migrated to Remember The Milk and liked it much better, presumably because my list making was getting more complicated. In particular, I liked the ability to [...]

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Bye bye Script.aculo.us, hello MooTools  

I’ve just finished swapping out the Javascript library used on BigHugeLabs.com from Prototype/Script.aculo.us (P+S) to MooTools and I thought I’d share my reasons as well as my impressions for the benefit of any other developers thinking of following a similar path.

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