Noscope is a bi-weekly journal serving up snacksized portions of pointless stuff since 2001.
I also do freelance design and usability via dejligt.com

Image Symlinks

    22:17 on December 28th, 2009 , , ,

Image Symlinks is born of a desire to speed up and simplify Wordpress post images, while retaining quality. Very briefly, it works like this:

Upload large source image
Use Symlink-image-button to insert image into post
Decide width and/or height of inserted image

How’s that different from using the built-in Wordpress image upload and insertion mechanism? To put it shortly, [...]

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Drop Stuff In A Box With DropBox

    11:45 on December 12th, 2009 , , ,

I’m now officially a DropBox fan and it took only one tryout for me to decide. DropBox is a cloud storage system, which means that you get an Internet harddrive you can access from any Internet device you have.
You get 2 GB for free when you sign up, but you should sign up using my referral link [...]

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Directory Opus 9.5 Mini-Review

    18:07 on December 07th, 2009 , , ,

GPSoftwares Directory Opus (or Dopus in slang) is a Windows Explorer replacement. It adds built-in FTP, advanced multi-file renaming capabilities, dual column customizable interfaces and a plethora of other features. I just purchased it at a 30% year-end discount, and I have to admit it’s the best bucks I’ve spent in a long time. Directory [...]

iConvert Converts Your PNGs To Favicons

    14:19 on November 19th, 2009 ,

Worth putting on your bookmark list, iConvert will let you upload a transparent 16×16 PNG file and convert it into a proper favicon.ico file ready spice up your sites bookmark icon. Just place it in the webroot of your webserver and voila. It hasn’t failed me yet.

Testing Browsers In 2009: Instant Screenshots

    13:50 on November 12th, 2009 , , , ,

Browsershots has been around for a while, but I’ve always found it a hassle to work with. And so, Geotek Datentechnik’s NetRenderer is a welcome product. It’ll screenshot your website almost instantly. Works remarkably well.

Go On, Stroke It

    14:08 on November 06th, 2009 , ,

StrokeIt adds mouse gestures to Windows and all its applications. I’ve been using it for years; gestures are nothing new, but StrokeIt 0.9.6 is. It’s Windows Vista and 7 compatible, and works superbly as always.
Gestures are invoked by holding the right mouse button and doing a gesture. My favourite gestures (which I’m having a hard [...]

Google Tasks “Canvas View”

    09:20 on October 22nd, 2009 ,

Google’s todo-list software, Google Tasks, is surprisingly not yet available in true “standalone” form, but only as subsets of Gmail and Calendar. As the result of a recent upgrade, however, we’re now one step closer to standalone: Google Tasks “Canvas View”.

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View PDFs With Google Docs Viewer Bookmarklet [Update: Greasemonkey Script]

    14:51 on October 06th, 2009 , ,

Google Docs has a webbased PDF reader that far outshines Adobes Reader, did you know? Did you also know that you can now view any online PDF document using this reader? Well you can, and using this freshly brewed bookmarklet, you can turn any hyperlink that points to a PDF into a comfy Google Viewer [...]

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Google Talk As A WebApp

    10:41 on May 11th, 2009 , ,

Instead of downloading and installing Google Talk, or adding Google Talk as a Jabber account in your IM app of choice, you can run it as a web-app, right in your browser. Simply bookmark this link: Google Talk Web-App. Of course you’re missing out on the fantastic file transfer feature of the Windows client, but [...]

New Google Doc Bookmarklet

    12:27 on April 06th, 2009 , ,

Google Docs has really grown on me. I use it for todo lists, vacation planning, notes to self and even invoices. Only, creating a new document requires you to first load Google Docs and then click “New Document”. That is, until you use one of these bookmarklets.
Drag one of these links to your bookmarks toolbar:

New [...]