Noscope is a bi-weekly journal serving up snacksized portions of pointless stuff since 2001. On a new linode server!
I also do freelance design and usability via dejligt.com
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No Tab Left Behind

    18:07 on February 24, 2009 , , , , , , ,

With the new Safari 4 beta, Apple is taking a page from the book of Opera and Google Chrome and moving their browser tabs all the way to the top: While not an incredibly original idea, it is a good idea and there are a number of reasons why. First of all, it optimizes the [...]

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The Incredible Hulk (2008) Mini-Review

    17:04 on February 23, 2009 , , ,

Reviews are spoilerfree but beware of comments.

Bruce Banner, changed by an experiment gone awry, now lives in exile in Brazil. As he is meditating and searching for a cure to his rage-induced transformations, General Ross hunts him tirelessly, hoping the green Hulk is the key to reviving a World War II era bio-force project. Back when I first heard they were [...]

Special Feed Items Plugin for WordPress

    13:40 on February 22, 2009 , ,

I believe it was John Gruber who started the trend: adding small unicode symbols in front of noteworthy feed items. Because this was such a great idea, I’ve started providing little ♥ icons next to noteworthy feed icons. This, I have turned into a WordPress plugin, which you can now download from the official WordPress [...]

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From The Archives: Creating Smoke In Photoshop From Scratch

    15:11 on February 21, 2009

Using Photoshop and a specific technique, it’s rather easy to create something that looks like smoke or fog—from scratch. It’s not as good as actual smoke photographed on a black background, but it’s much easier to come by. Here’s the trick… My first article to almost hit Digg.com, it’s still getting quite a few hits.

Ratings Short-tags Plugin for WordPress

    14:52 on February 20, 2009 , ,

If you review books and movies, you’ll want to provide a rating. Usual movie ratings consist of 1-5 or 1-6 stars, zero stars reserved mainly for Uwe Boll movies. This plugin let’s you do just that. Simply write and you’ll get this: There’s an options page which allows you to configure the rating symbol (another [...]

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Running Windows On The Mac: Did It Ever Work? [Update 3: Returning It]

    20:06 on February 16, 2009 , , , , , , , ,

Just last week, I bought myself a brand new unibody Macbook Pro 15, a rather expensive piece of hardware. I bought it, expecting it to run Windows natively via multi-boot; Apple advertises that their Boot Camp feature will do just this: [Mac OSX] Leopard is the world’s most advanced operating system. So advanced, it even [...]

Unibody Macbook Pro 15 Mini-Review

    09:30 on February 11, 2009 , , ,

Peeps who follow me on Twitter may have picked up the fact that my 6 month laptop hunt ended with me purchasing a 15 inch Macbook Pro. Sure, it’s the price of two used Toyotas duct-taped together, but it’s also carved from a single piece of aluminum, and the keyboard is chiseled from unicorn horn. [...]

Google Tasks, Now Standalone

    14:14 on February 3, 2009 ,

It’s been something I’ve been barking after for quite some time, a Google ToDo list. I’ve used Google Notebook until they killed it a few weeks ago at which point I switched to Google Docs, simply putting all my notes in one long document. As it turns out, Google Docs is so great that now [...]

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