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Have you ever looked at the home screen on your smartphone, and wished that there was a different set of icons on that initial screen? You’re driving, so the Messages app, the Camera, Calculator, etc should all be relegated to another screen, hidden away from frisky fingers. Or you’re at home, so the Maps application [...]

On the 26th we released a small component to integrate with the mousetrap.js library for key shortcuts with Javascript. Since then, we’ve integrated the library into Mystic Paste and have several handy shortcuts available now on the new paste, and history pages. New Features Our latest update brings global bindings, default bindings, global default bindings, [...]

Over the weekend, I came across a neat library mousetrap.js used to add key commands to your web application. It can be used in any browser including: Internet Explorer 6+ (wow) Chrome Safari Firefox Opera (yay Belarus!) Basically the way it works, is add the Javascript library to the page start binding commands Here’s an [...]

Bulgaria. This year, as with every year was an amazing experience filled with rich technical content, amazing speakers and attendees delivering an awesome conference. As promised, here are the presentations and information on the three presentations delivered this year. The HTML5 Landscape This year, we showed some new demo items, along with layout for the [...]

Since installing the GM of a new cat, there have been relatively few issues. Thankfully. One that recently came up, was attempting to run nosetests in a virtualenv using Python. The oddest error showed after running nose, pip, etc Traceback (most recent call last): File “~/.env/virtualenv/bin/pip”, line 5, in from pkg_resources import load_entry_point File “~/.env/mailup/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py”, [...]

We were invited up to Montreal, Quebec to present talks on HTML5 and building iOS Applications using Javascript. The conference was held in quite an amazing city, and the organizers did a fantastic job. Connected with several new folks, and a few that we go way back with. The best part was the scheduling, both [...]

A flight is sometimes the perfect time for uninterrupted work. So as we’ve been building things with the mobile toolkit Appcelerator Titanium, I ran it from my trusty key shortcut. Above is the only thing I saw. I even warn folks about this when giving talks about how to rapidly develop iOS applications with Titanium. [...]

A full list of the ideas currently in the IdeaLab You’re sitting in a restaurant, and hopefully, it’s a restaurant that has a coloring book because you’ve brought one or more of your little rug rats. The coloring book is engaging enough that they are quiet until mealtime, and even give you a bit of [...]

A full list of the ideas currently in the IdeaLab We bring our phones everywhere with us. And more and more, for a lot of us, the iPad is replacing most conventional uses of a computer, and introducing new usages we weren’t aware of years before. With the advent of Yoga and other eastern teachings [...]

A full list of the ideas currently in the IdeaLab Lately, I’ve been cycling down to the beach. It’s roughly five miles there, so my total ride is ten miles each time. One thing that struck me, about every time, was invariably some cyclist would speed past me, and it was an impetus to work [...]