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Vimium

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:00:00 -0400

Vimium is a Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor. Watch this video to get a feel for how it works:

Helps you navigate the web without touching the mouse.
Uses a clever highlighting method to navigate using links.
Saves your zoom settings on a site-by-site basis.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
Has an in-page help dialog to remind you of your personalized shortcuts.

What happened to warlion.com?

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:44:09 -0400

For anyone that still visits this site from time to time, I thought I’d give a brief explanation of why there’s been almost two years of in-activity and why nothing looks the same. Almost two years ago, I decided to take a digital sabbatical. I suspended my Facebook account, stopped posting to and modifying my website, all but ignored Twitter and my RSS feeds, and started greatly reducing the amount of time that I spent in email. I began having designated times throughout the day where I would check email, rather than beaconing to every notification.

After a few months of this sabbatical, I was refreshed and motivated to make changes to my digital experience. I permanently deleted my Facebook account, continued my new email work patterns, and resumed Twitter about once a week. I removed many RSS sources and limited reading RSS feeds to once every day or two. This new workflow has been a very healthy change for me. It’s helped me to slow down. I didn’t realize, until I forced myself to stop, just how responsive I was to notifications… and I had all my apps notifying me. Every post, every email, every news article, all the time… all day long on all of my computers and devices. Looking back, it’s hard for me to imagine that I did that. But it was a slow and gradual process of trying to stay on top of things. It was never a goal of mine to be a slave to my applications.

While I was at it, I decided to examine just how much time I was spending on my digital experience. For many years I hosted a website. It was a huge benefit in learning web development, and I also enjoyed my personal site, warlion.com. I had intentions to expand with another site (markkrieg.com) and differentiate between tech-talk and personal blog posts. But after evaluating how much time and money I was spending to host all of this, and the amount of time invested that was no longer yielding anything of great benefit, I decided to cancel my web-host and just keep the domains with the associated email accounts. I moved my web pointers to a free Tumblr account that I had experimented with some years ago, and now that’s all I have. Both domain names point to this site.

I plan on posting interesting things on this site from time to time, but it will be nothing like my former effort. So, to whom it may concern… if anyone… that’s the scoop.

Every blessing!

Desk Envy

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:51:59 -0500

Desk Envy from Yuvi Zalkow on Vimeo.

merlin: Project page: NOTATIONAL VELOCITY ALT 1.0 RELEASE -...

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:32:33 -0500

merlin:

Project page: NOTATIONAL VELOCITY ALT 1.0 RELEASE - Brett Terpstra:

Notational Velocity ALT adds:

Widescreen (horizontal) layout option

Shortcut (⌘-⌥-N) to collapse the notes panel

Markdown, Textile and MultiMarkdown support with Preview window

HTML source code tab in the Preview window for fast copy/paste to blogs, etc.

Unique interface design changes

Fixes for a couple of bugs/annoyances

Customizable HTML and CSS files for the Preview window

You can use Javascript in the templates to do a few neat tricks

Sublime.

Helvetireader²

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:37:56 -0500

Helvetireader²:

Beautify your Google Reader!

I’m a big fan of the iPhone app, Reeder and seldom use Google Reader for anything other than managing my RSS subscriptions. But since I discovered Helvetireader, I actually like spending time in Google Reader!

Awesome! Pop-Up Hallelujah Chorus at Macy ‘s GLORY TO THE...

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:12:00 -0500

Awesome! Pop-Up Hallelujah Chorus at Macy ‘s

GLORY TO THE KING OF KINGS!!!

minimalmac: mnmal: PlainText update brings stunning Word Count...

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:01:59 -0500

minimalmac:

mnmal:

PlainText update brings stunning Word Count implementation.

This shows what a good UI design with a great underlying OS and API can do. Fantastic!

(via Beautiful Pixels)

It is quite lovely. Tapping the Word Count gives you even more information including number of paragraphs and characters. Also, now you can see why I have such a geek crush on Jesse at Hog Bay Software. His thoughtfulness and attention to detail are impeccable.

Readability

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:14:00 -0500

Readability:

Readability™ is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading. Follow the steps below to install Readability™ in your Web browser.

Quix

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:00:00 -0500

Quix:

Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids

Quix is an extensible bookmarklet, that allows you to easily access all your bookmarks and bookmarklets, across all your browsers, while maintaining them in only one spot. All you have to do is remember the shortcut for the bookmarklet, so, basically, it’s like a command line for your browser!

Quix comes with an enormous amount of powerful commands built in: check out the video below, or the first steps guide, after that, check out how to integrate it with your browser, and all the commands that are available by default.

Mike Marino (via mycomedytv)

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 13:19:52 -0400

Mike Marino (via mycomedytv)

Scrivener v2.0 is out… WOW!!!

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:21:57 -0400

Scrivener v2.0 is out… WOW!!!

DEVONthink To Go is Available!

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:26:31 -0400

DEVONthink To Go is Available!:

Finally! I’ve been so waiting for this! DEVONthink on my iPhone. It’s a dream come true!

minimalmac: onethingwell: TextEdit has a very simple outlining...

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:46:44 -0400

minimalmac:

onethingwell:

TextEdit has a very simple outlining mode, perfect for jotting down quick notes with a bit of structure. To activate it, hit ⌥ + ⇥ while editing an RTF document.

Yet another reminder of the oft forgotten power of TextEdit. Want to know even more TextEdit magic you are likely unaware of? Well, your in luck as I have written about it before (including the outlining feature).

Update: One more thing I forgot to mention. All of this stuff works in anything that uses your Mac’s built in text editing engine. So, for instance, making a note in Yojimbo? Works there. MacJournal? Yep, works there too.

Vintage Leather Journal What a work of art! Wish I could afford...

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:24:00 -0400

Vintage Leather Journal

What a work of art! Wish I could afford one of these. This artist has many beautiful creations. Check them out! Teo Studio

iThoughts is probably one of the best examples of interface...

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:26:00 -0400

iThoughts is probably one of the best examples of interface design with the iPhone that I’ve ever seen. It REALLY works well. I’m able to slap down ideas (thoughts), and organize them on the fly. But it doesn’t stop there… this puppy reads and writes to Dropbox! So, that opens seamless connectivity with my Mac! But not just to other MindMap software, rather OPML exporting (i.e. Scrivener, outliners, etc.) as well as PDF. iThoughts sports a variety of file export formats, and it memorizes which ones (yes, simultaneous export of multiple file formats) you want to use for each document you create! So, when I save to Dropbox, it automatically exports all of the formats that I configured with that particular iThought document! A superb productivity tool. (Also available for the iPad)

TiddlyWiki

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:44:10 -0400

TiddlyWiki:

TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki - including all of the content, the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because it’s a single file, it’s very portable - you can email it, put it on a web server or share it via a USB stick.

World's Longest Tunnel

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 07:57:19 -0400

World's Longest Tunnel:

Talk about diligence… 14 years of drilling, and more to go!

Reeder for iPhone I’ve tried a number of RSS news reader...

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:29:00 -0400

Reeder for iPhone

I’ve tried a number of RSS news reader (aggregator) apps for the iPhone. Some have slick graphics and beautiful interfaces, but none of them have the speed and elegance of Reeder. This app can connect to your Google Reader account and not only grab the RSS subscriptions, it can also keep in sync with Google Reader. So, if you read on the web, you’ll be right were you left off on your iPhone! It’s the fastest at downloading RSS feeds, by far, of any app I’ve tried. It also has fabulous integration with Instapaper, Delicious, Twitter, Facebook, and many more.

Directed by Benjamin Espiritu. Produced by Atomic Tom and...

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:16:00 -0400

Directed by Benjamin Espiritu. Produced by Atomic Tom and Benjamin Espiritu. Edited by Reid Carrescia. This video was filmed unannounced on Friday October 8, 2010 aboard the New York City B Train, over the Manhattan Bridge into Brooklyn and edited from 3 iPhone cameras. All footage is performed 100% live and executed in one take.

These videos clips are from a YWAM lecture phase in New Zealand....

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:13:00 -0400

These videos clips are from a YWAM lecture phase in New Zealand. The speaker is Graham Cooke and I think his words sum up a lot about what we are about in YWAM.

We’ve made and listed below some decisions that reflect the state of our hearts and the reality we’re establishing in our community. We believe these decisions are prompted by the Holy Spirit, and we are so happy to see them applied in the Kingdom. As you read, we want to make sure you understand the context. These decisions are in no way a criticism of any church or denominational movement - they are an articulation of who we have chosen to be, and the path we’ve decided to follow.

Here are the Decisions that Define Us:

We have decided that teaching the Gospel without demonstrating the Gospel is not enough. Good preaching, good doctrine, and being good people is not enough.
We have decided that having a good church club is not enough, good fellowship is not enough, and just being a member of that club is not enough.
We have decided that having good Bible studies is good, but not good enough, that just making it to heaven is not our goal, and that knowing about God without truly knowing and experiencing God is meaningless.
We have decided that having good programs is not enough; that change without transformation is intolerable, and that staying the same is not an option.
We have decided that gifting without character is futile.
We have decided that singing songs without worshiping is shallow and having meetings without God showing up is pointless.
We have decided that having faith without works is not enough and having works without love is not acceptable - that our function comes out of our relationship first with the Father and second with each other.
We have decided that reading about the book of Acts without living the book of Acts is unthinkable.
We have decided that confident faith is good and bold faith is better.
We have decided that hearing about the Holy Spirit without experiencing Him is silly, that believing in
His presence without seeing It manifested in signs and wonders is hypocrisy, that believing in healing without seeing people healed is absurd, and that believing in deliverance without people being delivered is absolutely ridiculous.
We have decided to be Holy Spirit filled, Holy Spirit led, and Holy Spirit empowered - anything less doesn’t work for us.
We have decided to be the ones telling the stories of God’s power - not the ones hearing about them.
We have decided that living saved, but not supernatural is living below our privilege and short of what Christ died for.
We have decided that we are a battle ship not a cruise ship, an army, not an audience; Special forces not spectators, missionaries not club members.
We have decided to value both pioneers and settlers - pioneers to expand our territory and settlers to build on those territories - but we are not squatters - people who take up space others have fought for without improving it.
We have decided to be infectious instead of innocuous, contagious instead of quarantined, deadly instead of benign.
We have decided to be radical lovers and outrageous givers.
We have decided that we are a mission station and not a museum:

Therefore:

We honor the past - we don’t live in it.
We live in the present with our eyes on the future.
We see past events - successes and failures - as stepping-stones not stop signs.
We pursue learning in order to be transformed, not learning in order to know.
We are people of engagement not observation.
We focus on what could be, not on what is or has been.
We are not limited to the four walls of this building. Our influence is not restricted by location - Not even the nations are out of bounds.
We are more concerned about how many we send out into the world than how many we convince to come into the building. This building is meant to be filled and it will be - but it will not be the measure of who we are or the measure of our effectiveness.
We raise up world changers - not tour guides. We train commandos, not committees.
We are a people of our destiny, not of our history.

We have decided that it is better to fail while reaching for the impossible that God has planned for us than succeed settling for less.
We have decided that nothing short of His Kingdom come, His will be done in our world as it is in Heaven will satisfy.
We have decided that we will not be satisfied until our world freaks out and cries out “Those who have turned the world upside down have come here too.”