I wanted to take a moment to share how you can taken back 10+ hours a week of my time from monotonous tasks. 1. Find faster Think about how often you “search” through your hard drive to find and open files, applications, or folders? 10, 20, 50 times a dayhttp://www.stefancrain.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=338&action=edit&message=1? Probably takes you a while huh? And then you find the file and cant even remember why you were searching for GuyDoingFacePalm.jpg in the first place.  Lucky for us there is a much faster way to find stuff on the mac. Apple built this fucntionality straight into into OSX in 2006, they call it “Spotlight”. TRY IT OUT: Press command + spacebar to open the window in the upper right corner. Type in the first 3-4 letters of what you are looking for, use arrow keys to navigate the list … Continued

Flipify.js is a jQuery plugin that turns a boring count-up display into a beautiful airport inspired counter. Count the number of hits to your web-app, track your time, or even monitor your dog (good luck). The possibilities are endless! Key Features Built with the jQuery framework Lightweight at only 1.9KB supports Multiple instances on one page timerEnd handler start, stop, and reset functionality $(‘#counter’).countdown({ stepTime: 60, format: ‘hh:mm:ss’, startTime: “12:32:55″, digitImages: 6, digitWidth: 53, digitHeight: 77, timerEnd: function() { alert(‘end!!’); }, image: “digits.png” });

As of last week, I was not able to find a method to connect my Arduino to a Titanium desktop project. The Titanium SDK doesn’t natively support serial communication, but I knew the Arduino would be much more valuable to me if I was able to integrate it natively with a desktop app for several reasons: With an Arduino I can enhance my ability to add layers of interaction & interface design to my projects. The majority of my experience developing comes from web development, Titanium allows me to program in the language of my choice. If I could figure out how to connect it, I wouldn’t need to re-write my current app in an app like Processing ( Holy shit, processing is hard ). There were people out there that were wondering about this same thing, I followed up … Continued

With Push2Highrise.php as a building block, I’ve added functionality I recently needed to the open source Highrise API PHP class. Push2Highrise.php is a simple PHP wrapper which adds form submitted data from your webpage directly to Highrise CRM system. Using the Highrise API, the wrapper supports the creation of contacts, notes, tasks and deals. I’ve made changes to the following areas: Added The ability to attach new info to existing contacts. Added The ability to attach background info to contacts. Updated the search to look for people by email address, rather then first & last name (how many James Smith’s do you know?) Corrected problems I was having with the “add notes” function. Examples This is my basic example of usage, I know it’s pretty minimal, but you can see how to add tags, notes, background info, update users, add … Continued