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

Here’s An Idea: The Icons For Developers Program

    11:07 on August 9, 2010 , , ,

Android and iOS devices have exploded in app usage over the last few years. Both of these operating systems bring app icons front and center. Large finger-friendly icons invite us to start a phone call, play a game or jot down a note. It’s all very polished and pretty. Well it’s not all polished and [...]

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Tweaking My Ratings Plugin: Pennies For Your Thoughts [Update]

    21:10 on August 27, 2009 , ,

If you’re a b-movie critic and blogger, you should be using my Ratings Short-tags plugin for WordPress. It allows you to easily insert star or heart ratings that look like this: ♥♥♥♥♥♥. At the time of the plugins release, a requested feature was the ability to display a list of posts that contained similar ratings [...]

Is There An "OSX Preview"-Like App For Windows?

    12:26 on June 9, 2009 , , ,

Working on the girlfriends Mac, one of the features about OSX I’ve come to like the most, is the Preview app. It works quite simply: you drag a bunch of files on to the Preview icon, located in the dock. The result, your selected files are added to a “drawer” in a preview window, where [...]

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 [...]

The Quest For A Sturdy Laptop

    11:07 on January 24, 2009 , ,

A coworker and myself are looking for laptops in the “desktop replacement” class. That means fairly fast computers sporting plenty of RAM and dedicated graphics cards. That means prices in the 1500 ranges. These are all Fisherprice plastic concoctions, however, and therein lies the problem. Can it really be true, that only Apple makes truly [...]

Converting SVG To PNG On The Fly: How? [Update]

    18:52 on June 18, 2008 , , ,

Remember SVG? Pioneered by Adobe back in the day, Scalable Vector Graphics were to compete with Macromedias Flash. They never could (and so they bought them), but the result — the SVG standard, is interesting for HTML / CSS uses.

Did You Enjoy Lost "The Constant" As Much As I Did?

    08:58 on March 3, 2008 ,

The most recent episode of sci-fi island adventure Lost is, in my opinion, the best episode of a television show, ever. If you haven’t watched it yet (or followed the show), now’s the time to do so. If nothing else then to not be spoiled here. Lost season 4 episode 5 is a re-interpretation of [...]

Noscope Prints: Questionnaire

    10:47 on December 4, 2007 ,

Six years ago I started doing illustration-work for the heck of it. Five pieces a month kept the mind-doctor away. Come May this year, I stopped that and instead started brewing and concocting devious evil schemes: I would love nothing more than to sell you prints. Deliciously crafted and printed representations of hard work, blood [...]