Pinging stuff I care about.
Tesseract Software:
Flash Video Downloader is an application which allows you to easily batch download and save streaming flash videos from most streaming video sites (e.g. youtube, google video, dailymotion, etc)
That’s one less firefox extension I need now! (Though to be honest DownloadHelper does a lot more than snag flv’s offa youtube… but that’s what I use it for mostly.)
Patrick Logan notes in passing that an Object Oriented system without a class hierarchy — using pure delegation between objects — was a radical idea back in 1986. Right now the only really mainstream impact it’s made* is in Javascript. But now:
Javascript is getting “serious” by adding classes and type checking and so on. Bah. Forgive them for they know not…
[* that is, until we all welcome our new Io overlords!]
Scratch is a fun scripting and animation environment designed to be accessible to children. It’s an evolution of the Squeak Etoys environment I blogged about last month. But it’s much smoother and less cryptic.
Initial dinking around suggests this is basically Etoys made a thousand times more accessible and usable. Rock!
I got an Amazon gift certificate from work for Christmas, and got me some Logitech wireless, Bluetooth headphones. I can walk all over the house wearing these while the adapter’s plugged into my computer. (I can’t seem to get it to Bluetooth directly to the macbook, but that’s OK. So I don’t have to leave Bluetooth on on the macbook. That’s cool.)
I can’t find them on the Logitech home page, which makes me think they’re probably a discontinued model, but googling on the model number gives me lots of results like this one. That’s what I got. And I didn’t pay anywhere near $129 for it. More like just above $30.
In about 10 years, I’ll be using these with the used refurb iPhone I finally get around to buying. Till then I’ll be using ’em with my comparatively humble but makes-me-happy LG VX 8300.
ironcoder » Child’s Play Day:
Child’s Play is a Seattle-based charity started in 2003 by the guys at Penny Arcade that helps make the holidays a little nicer for sick kids staying in children’s hospitals by providing toys and games for them to enjoy. Since its inception over a million dollars in donations of toys, games, books and cash have been collected.
This year a group of independent Mac Developers are teaming up and donating all of the proceeds from sales of their various software titles on Thursday, December 7th to the Child’s Play charity. To participate simply purchase the products as you normally would through the various online stores. Your money will be collected and sent to the charity and you’ll get some great Mac software to enjoy.
Includes some of mph’s favorite software, WebNoteHappy and VoodooPad. (I own the latter and while I don’t do much with it these days it is good software from a great developer.) (Oh, funny — they’ve got the app mph blogged cryptically about just today…)
Looks like a lot of neat stuff. (Guitar Shed especially, not that I’m a guitarist… Oh, and I could pay for Billable if it helped me get around to actually invoicing somebody that I keep forgetting to…)