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The tools I use: Mac
I’d love to have something meaty and heady to write about today, but I’ve got nothing. So, because some folks have asked for it, and because Kenny did it, how about a simple list of the tools I use on my Mac everyday and couldn’t live without? I consider myself a bit of a software minimalist—I don’t use a lot of the geeky tools many web pros do. I try to only have what I think I really need. Note that this only includes native Mac software, not web apps I use regularly. Here goes:
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Disastrous Flash demo heaps further embarrassment on Adobe
The Telegraph writes up the FlashCamp Seattle debacle with a typically divisive headline. Of all the publications that have ever mentioned my name, I think The Telegraph is probably the most widely-distributed. Crazy.
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Me, Jenna, and Brandi
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Building BarStar
Over the past few months, I’ve spent a lot of my free time working on a personal project centered around a social activity I’ve become pretty passionate about: karaoke. Karaoke? Yes, karaoke. Why? Because it’s fun, dammit. I could write a whole separate post on why I love karaoke and what makes a great karaoke performance, but my boy Jon Culver already did, so just read that, instead. But I did think I’d take a few minutes to write about the process of building BarStar, and how it came to be.
Back when I was at Blue Flavor, Keith Robinson had this idea for a simple iPhone app. We were calling it “karaoke finder.” All it was really supposed to do was use your physical location to tell you where some karaoke is going down tonight near you. Simple, but very useful, especially for those of us who travel and want to find karaoke in a city we’re not familiar with. The idea kind of died as Blue Flavor fell apart last summer.
Separately, way back in May, my good friend and fellow KC-to-Seattle transplant Scott Phelps and I had the idea to somehow make a karaoke game. Both of us were (and are) very interested in real-world social games like Foursquare and Gowalla, and wondered if such an idea could work for a niche hobby, like karaoke.
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Django Advent - Messages for the rest of us
My article on Django Advent, covering the new messages framework for Django 1.2.
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BarStar - A a real-world social game for karaoke fiends
Just realized I hadn’t linked to the personal project Scott Phelps and I have been working on lately. It’s in beta now. It’s a mobile, social game intended to be played by people who are out at bars doing karaoke. If you like to sing, check it out!
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Santana Champ cuz it's so crisp (not really)
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The real trophy
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Women I nearly killed holding half the table I broke
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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