Jay Robinson

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  • Why did you start following me?

    While I have found my niche on Tumblr as one who supplies you with Apple news, gratuitous photos of Steve Jobs as well as healthy portions of HTML5 and CSS3 goodness, I was curious to know why you, dear reader, started following me. Do you ever regret your decision but feel that you just have…

  • Totally rad HTML I just wrote

    Jacob Bijani: Clears an input on focus and refills it on blur with the default value if it’s still empty. Totally localization-friendly, framework-agnostic, and you get to use CSS to style both states! Totally just used this.

  • What the Hex?!?

    nudgeup: > yizzle: I made this little game to train myself to read hex values. http://yizzle.com/whatthehex/ Awesome idea for a game that Yizzle whipped after being inspired from some random conversations. So simple but so good. There’s so many ways to go with this. The mind boggles. This is my new favorite thing.

  • Quickie: Adding Facebook Chat to iChat

    Connor Denman: To use Facebook chat within the iChat application, it is very simple and straight forward. First, create a new “Jabber” account within iChat preferences. As the Login name (or Username) specify your Facebook username that can be seen in your Account Settings on facebook.com. It should look like this: [username]@chat.facebook.com Obviously then you…

  • An Unexpected Reminder About Why I Make Art

    Jarrett Fuller: “Whachu takin’ pictures of?” I turn to see a large man—thick New York accent, tight black shirt, dark sunglasses, bluetooth headset, shaved head, gold jewelry adorning his ears, neck and wrists—start to approach me. I had just left my sister’s track meet and walked over to the part across the street to take…

  • Regarding The Pesky .DS_Store

    The .DS_Store can be an annoying and troublesome file for power Mac users, i.e. developers and programmers. The purpose of the .DS_Store file (Desktop Services Store) is to remember your preferences for displaying a particular folder. However, they sometimes cause problems for those who need to compile from directories, use SVN while retaining invisible files,…

  • Dear Tumblr, Inc…

    Ben Gold: When are you going to make a new audio player? I would love to see an HTML5 video and audio player.

  • Write Shorter URL Structures in Safari

    If you want to load this URL in Safari, “http://www.domain.com/stuff/evenmore/”, all you have to type is “domain/stuff/evenmore”. Just a short tip for Safari users. Lately I seem to be using it a lot. Stupid Chrome can’t figure this one out, and Firefox loads domain.com. Weird. EDIT: Kevin wrote me to say that “Command + Return”…

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  • The upgraded truck icon that comes with an FTP client

    The Strake: Panic has released a fantastic upgrade to one of the coolest (and most copied) icons ever. As a bonus, the icon comes bundled with an FTP client that is supposed to be pretty damn good. Here is the “old” version: And the beautiful, updated version: Both the cab and the rear container are…

  • The Instapaper of Video

    I want an app that allows me to bookmark videos to watch later. When I use the app, my videos play in sequence without further intervention. Ideally, it syncs with my iPhone and desktop. Let’s take a look at Extract and mobile-dl. Extract, by Zach Waugh, is a Mac OS X app that allows you…

  • Is Dropbox better than iDisk?

    I’ve been using Dropbox passively for the past few weeks. It works exactly as expected–you should never have to think about it. It is really nice having your files in the cloud. But the problem with having one folder in the cloud–accessible from my iMac, MacBook Pro, iPhone or iPad–is that pretty soon you want…

  • Last Name, First Name, Last Name

    I’m really into canons. Right now I dig the whole James Bond series. Here are some helpful links for research purposes: Chronological list of James Bond films List of Bond girls with screenshots, background info List of villians/femme fatales Personally I don’t mind grouping the Bond girls with the femme fatales, but whatever.

  • I am fairly convinced The Shins are my perfect desert island music.

    I was introduced to The Shins while I was living on an island. Plus, lead singer James Mercer is from Oahu so he’d already be there to sing along. Coincidence? I think not. The Shins songs are fun/peppy, sometimes sad, but always nice to sing. The music is delightful but deceptively simple, often complexly orchestrated…

  • MobileWe

    Much ballyhoo was made over Steve Jobs demand at the January 2010 Apple Event (and again at the February shareholder’s meeting) that Apple is now a mobile device company. Many worry that Apple will abandon the big, heavy desktop computers that we know and love. But I want to tell you that Apple has always…