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Reviews by drewp (51)
Self-Improvement Kick | This American Life
/5 (minimum 1)
on 08 Jan 2013
Charlie Ravioli | The Moth
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Perry Como Sundae Bar | The Moth
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 Jan 2013
Holding On for Dear Life | The Moth
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 Jan 2013
Dog Days of Spanish Harlem | The Moth
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 Jan 2013
A Mexican Mormon Christmas | The Moth
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 Jan 2013
Catherine Smyka StorySLAM Favorites | The Moth
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 Jan 2013
Lisa Schuldt StorySLAM Favorites | The Moth
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 Jan 2013
A Dish Best Served Cold | The Moth
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 Jan 2013
Life on a Möbius Strip
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 Jan 2013
A WireTap Christmas Carol | WireTap with Jonathan Goldstein | CBC Radio
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 Jan 2013
Real-Life Superheroes | WireTap with Jonathan Goldstein | CBC Radio
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 Jan 2013
All The World's A Stage | WireTap with Jonathan Goldstein | CBC Radio
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 Jan 2013
USB Webcam
/5 (minimum 1)
on 13 Jul 2010
Picture is ok. Linux support is good. The IR filter is very easy to remove; I have turned two of these into IR cameras.
USP3USB 3-way splitter with USB
/5 (minimum 1)
on 13 Jul 2010
restkit
/5 (minimum 1)
on 02 Apr 2010
My favorite choice for a synchronous python http client. Well-behaved and very easy to use.
Homepage of Zabbix :: An Enterprise-Class Open Source Distributed Monitoring Solution
/5 (minimum 1)
on 02 Apr 2010
I tried version 1.8.1. Difficult install, difficult config, awkward UI, and I still haven't found how to input my own custom stats for graphing. My php fcgi server crashes sometimes, and I'm not sure why. There are lots of postgres query errors in the logs. The charting is better than many systems out there but not great.
SlideShare is the best place to share powerpoint presentations
/5 (minimum 1)
on 08 Nov 2008
SlideShare is the worst place to share presentations. Embedded slide shows are too small; full-screen ones are inconvenient and unreadable on some multi-monitor setups. I can't link to a slide, and I don't think I can quote text from them. But I can't remember exactly, and I'm not going to restart the other browser that has flash just to verify this.
Ironically, slides usually have about the amount of content that fits on my mobile phone's screen, but SlideShare makes sure I can't actually view a presentation on my phone.
If you have something interesting to share, please create HTML.
Yarssr - Yet Another RSS Reader
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 Nov 2008
I've tried this a few times over the months, and it's still not working out for me.
The goal should be to put updated RSS feed entries in my face with the minimum effort and annoyance, but yarssr has a clunky setup process and a bad reading UI. When there are new items, and I go to the trouble to click the icon to read them, that's the time to show me the new items! Yarssr shows a hierarchy of feeds, and each one expands to a mix of old and new items.
SuperHappyDevHouse wiki / SuperHappyDevHouse26
/5 (minimum 1)
on 31 Aug 2008
I was only there for the last few hours, but this was an excellent instance of SHDH. The infrastructure (food, net, power, seating, etc) was all in great shape. I even got some work done on a project.
Home - Pencil Project
/5 (minimum 1)
on 03 Jul 2008
Nothing special here. The only notable piece is the template objects that look like controls from other widget libraries. But everything else seems much clunkier than competing projects.
I'd probably use inkscape instead.
Rijndael Inspector
/5 (minimum 1)
on 18 May 2008
Well-done graphics, but I think the level of detail is not appropriate for the audience who would watch the presentation. If I need an explanation of what ShiftRows means, I probably don't also care about the specifics of the column additions of the last steps.
I think this presentation did not answer my question of "where does the encryption happen?" In contrast, some good explanations of JPEG are careful to explain where the compression happens.
powertop
/5 (minimum 1)
on 29 Apr 2008
I've tried this on laptops, but the interesting results came on my desktop. My cpu usage was low, but the load average was high. powertop listed some surprising processes that were waking up hundreds of times per second.
How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
/5 (minimum 1)
on 29 Apr 2008
Starts a little vague; gets better by the middle. Lots of examples of good and bad API design from the java library, but the principles apply in non-java.
Freebase User Group meeting at Metaweb (Wednesday, April 16, 2008) - Upcoming
/5 (minimum 1)
on 16 Apr 2008
Fun atmosphere, good content and variety. Some of the talks were pretty non-technical, although they were about new developments on freebase.
Transformers
/5 (minimum 1)
on 29 Jan 2008
Delivers on its promise (fighting robots). The animation and effects look great.
Inbox Zero (talk at google)
/5 (minimum 1)
on 29 Jan 2008
I only listened to about 15 minutes. This is too slow for most technical audiences. Not very interesting for people who are familiar with GTD and who don't seem to be having a problem with their email.
If you do manage everything by your inbox or you haven't heard of GTD, maybe there is something in here for you.
atool home
/5 (minimum 1)
on 26 Dec 2007
"aunpack anything.zip" (or tgz or various other formats) is so much nicer than checking the archive first to see if it will spill files all over the current directory.
Ubuntu package is called 'atool'.
Act II popcorn
/5 (minimum 1)
on 19 Oct 2007
Best microwave popcorn I am aware of.
Pop Secret Movie Theater Butter
/5 (minimum 1)
on 19 Oct 2007
Pretty good, although probably not mistakable for real movie theater butter. Stinging aftertaste.
I recommend http://www.actii.com/products/butter.jsp over this one.
Arduino - HomePage
/5 (minimum 1)
on 12 Oct 2007
Super duper microcontroller starter kit, for only about $35. It's an atmega168 with a FTDI usb converter and a bootloader that lets the IDE upload to the chip completely automatically.
The included C libraries (io, serial, RNG, etc) are well written and documented.
XnView
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 Jun 2007
Similar to the old xv viewer. Flickers when changing images, so it's not very nice for animated image sequences. Zoom controls are nonstandard.
Probably not better than eog.
Cervisia (CVS frontend for konqueror)
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 May 2007
Very nice- better hotkeys and displays than the comparable tkcvs. Konqueror's tree view lets you expand multiple parts of your file listing at once, which allows for a much better overview of my cvs state than I had before.
Haven't tried any advanced cvs features with this interface yet.
twill: a simple scripting language for Web browsing
/5 (minimum 1)
on 01 Apr 2007
Much cooler that it appears. The UI easily presents numbered/named lists of things to click on. The twill version of my web scraper is about 20 times shorter than the old one, since the twill one is 3 lines long!
I tried TestGen4Web briefly as a way to record in-browser surfing, but it wasn't convenient enough to turn the recording into twill output. The twill cmdline UI is plenty for now.
Idiocracy
/5 (minimum 1)
on 29 Mar 2007
Very silly, lots of great satire.
Business chat for groups: Campfire
/5 (minimum 1)
on 29 Mar 2007
Nicely done IRC/chatroom site. The distinguishing feature for me is the persistent logs that show you the recent activity when you login.
Alain Frisch: Mozilla-related software - Nostalgy
/5 (minimum 1)
on 20 Mar 2007
Hotkeys (and more) for thunderbird. All I wanted was a key to send the selected messages to the last-used folder, and I now have that. I might also make use of the quick keyboard-based picking of other folders.
plope - supervisor2
/5 (minimum 1)
on 17 Feb 2007
rc files are horrible compared to using supervisor. supervisor runs the processes as children, so it knows for sure if they've stopped or not. Setting up a new process is as short as adding two lines to the config file. I'm using supervisor on 5 machines so far.
The web UI sometimes stalls on page loads, and the master process can't be reconfigured without restarting everything, but those issues haven't bothered me much.
People considering supervisor2 might also be looking at DJB's daemontools. I think sup2 is an easier setup, and it comes with more reporting/control interfaces out of the box.
ViVe SoL - A unique Restaurante Mexicano with true Comida Barroca Poblana
/5 (minimum 1)
on 17 Feb 2007
The food is better than the service is poor. Medium-size menu. Great sauces. They frequently screw up orders and have to make them again. The atmosphere is busy but not too loud, and the lighting is a nice candlelight feel.
Mike and Ike: Now Bursting with Fruit Juice Flavor
/5 (minimum 1)
on 13 Jan 2007
The regular version is my favorite candy.
Berry Blast is different, and perhaps not better.
Barney's Gourmet Hamburgers
/5 (minimum 1)
on 13 Jan 2007
Caesar salad seems to have gotten more "gourmet" lately, and not in a good way.
Still love the fries and shakes, though.
JHEditor 0.7 by SMSoft: A hex editor in Java that is especially useful for large files (even over 4GB)
/5 (minimum 1)
on 07 Jan 2007
First one I could find and run on ubuntu that didn't try to load the whole file at once. I would have expected EVERY hex editor to behave this way, but at least ghex and khexedit and hexcurse (those are the ubuntu package names) failed on the 10GB disk image I'm trying to repair.
JH doesn't support mousewheel, nor does it seem to offer alternate formatting besides the usual 16 bytes (hex then ascii) per row.
TiddlyWiki - a reusable non-linear personal web notebook
/5 (minimum 1)
on 28 Nov 2006
Mind-blowing wiki UI. I am slowly learning when to apply the tiddlywiki, and it's a winner every time. The UI looks good and feels good, and doesn't waste clicks or time. You will quickly devote maximum brainpower to content creation, which is a lot more than I can say for other wiki products. But don't be confused- tiddlywiki doesn't compete with most normal wikis. It's really good at quickly assembling sets of short pages with one user. You probably have that scenario more often than you realize.
The nature of the original TiddlyWiki makes saving a bit touchy. It's possible to lose work, but it's easy to learn not to do that. There exist other TW adaptations that have a more traditional server-side component that allows multi-user, reliable saving. They are also cool, but they're not the zero-setup, carry-on-your-thumb-drive masterpiece that is the original TW.
casino royale
/5 (minimum 1)
on 27 Nov 2006
Didn't go for the new tone. It wouldn't be fun to have this Bond's life, for one thing. There were frequently secrets from the audience (Bond knows M's name but won't tell us), and what few gadgets there were didn't even get used the way the movie told us they would. That's the whole point of having gadgets in a movie- we learn what they do and then we (via the characters) get to use our knowledge.
Music, action, stars, and locations were good, at least.
Web Developer Extension
/5 (minimum 1)
on 27 Nov 2006
Live CSS editor is pretty nice, especially with firebug inspecting your current styles. It could use more automation and UI for forming the CSS (write selectors for me based on what I'm inspecting; show me all the possible keys; inline a color selector to edit color values; etc).
GooSync
/5 (minimum 1)
on 24 Nov 2006
I did get items to sync each way from google calendar to the palm calendar, for free. All the rest of the UI is clunky at best.
I deliberately edited one appointment on both calendars and changed its time on one of them. After goosync ran, I think the edit was synced, but the time change was lost. I've also seen notes about how goosync might not handle repeating events correctly, but I haven't tried that yet.
You, Me and Dupree
/5 (minimum 1)
on 24 Nov 2006
Pleasant formula comedy. I imagine I'd watch it again (if I ever watched movies outside the theater)
Google Maps for palm
/5 (minimum 1)
on 21 Nov 2006
Scrollable maps and satellite photos, good interactivity. Find a business by searching the map, then touch the marker and press 'call' to call it faster than you could with desktop gmaps.
Palm Products Palm Treo u2122 650 Smartphone
/5 (minimum 1)
on 21 Nov 2006
Good upgrade from 600, especially for bluetooth and camera. Palm apps still have excellent UI. Don't miss google maps for palm at http://www.google.com/gmm/index.html
/5 (minimum 1)
on 21 Nov 2006
revyu com review anything
/5 (minimum 1)
on 20 Nov 2006
This is the site I've been waiting for. I look forward to being able to archive and repurpose my own reviews later. Hopefully that's ok with the revyu terms (which I can't find). Meanwhile, the revyu UI seems pretty good.
One thing that's immediately missing is an "add a review to this page" button on a page of other people's reviews. Also, I'd like to see more assistance with the link finding. A google ajax search widget, for example.
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