A week ago, I replaced the Flickr photos in my blog’s header with iPhone OS apps: Retrospect Touch and Dollar Clock. Since I hadn’t updated Flickr since Christmas, the iPhone/iPad apps seemed more appropriate, and I was curious to see if the switch affected the download numbers. Here’s the before and after: Today, I checked [...]
Quick, open up your Mac’s Downloads folder or your Windows Desktop. Do you remember where all those files came from? I have fifty items in my Mac’s Downloads right now, and I forget where twenty of them came from. My favorite is “Inst 8.1.184.1.zip”. What was that… Name your downloads. Think about people downloading files [...]
12 May 2010 Update: Interestingly, Google Analytics revealed that in the month since adding the sidebar, there’s been no significant change in the average time spent on the site (54s) or pages per visit (1.3). I still like it. Recently, I thought it would be interesting to add a sidebar to my WordPress blog. I [...]
Recently, I got an email from Skype saying they activated my Skype To Go number. It was early in the morning, and I hadn’t finished my coffee. I already had a vague discomfort with Skype over their switch from SkypeIn/Skype Pro plans to US/Country/World plans. Skimming the email, I quickly jumped to the conclusion that [...]
Whenever I encounter a strange error message or a similar roadblock while programming, I google for answers. This approach leads to a wide array of websites, almost all blogs. (In fact, most of this site’s traffic comes from Google, presumably from the same approach.) As soon as I get to the site, I want to [...]
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I'm Brian Dunagan. I write Mac user interfaces at Roxio Retrospect. Before that, I wrote Windows COM/MFC and Ruby on Rails at WildPackets. I graduated from MIT back in 2004. All the code posted is under MIT license. Feel free to use it anywhere; hope you find it useful. :)
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