Posted by Jeff March 14, 2008
Posting from Google Docs
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Posted by Jeff March 09, 2008
When using Google Docs, the default Firefox menu is overridden. No sweet spellchecker goodness. Using Tools/Options and unchecking “Disable or Replace Context menus”, you can get both menus.
Confused? Try the movie - 1:54, with sound.
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Posted by Jeff March 09, 2008
This made me laugh hard… bodes well -
Howdy and welcome to RescueTime- We’ll make this short and sweet…
Here’s your login info (store it in a cool dry place):
Username: jeff@server.com
Password: As IF we would send you your password in cleartext!
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Posted by Jeff March 08, 2008
My last post was about full-screen text editors. The goal is to reduce options and choices, encouraging focus and flow.
Turns out, there is a more general solution - Clutter Cloak. Invoke it with a keystroke - CC obscures everything on the screen except the child window immediately under the mouse pointer. I changed the hotkey to Ctrl-Space, easier to type.
This mimics Inattentional Blindness - the tunnel vision we get when in extreme focus. Blocking out extranous content is a great way to promote Flow.
Fun video-how many passes does the White team make in this video?
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Posted by Jeff March 08, 2008
Recently I was looking for a tool to put up a full-screen writing surface: green letters on a black background.
This is the sort of tool programmers love to write — like Diff tools. I found a half dozen tools, some free and cross-platform.
For now, I’m using Q10. Its lean size (357K) appeals to me, and it has autosave. Q10 plays typewriter sounds (sampled from the movie Amelie!), which can be charming or..annoying. I removed them by changing SoundsEnabled=False in q10.ini. The lineup:
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Posted by Jeff March 06, 2008
… would be a great band name.
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