iPhone Hack: Notes
Posted by: kmikeym
So I wanted to copy some text from the internet, and put it on my iPhone as a reminder. We all know you can't copy text on the iPhone, but I was on my computer! So I copied the text and then ...
Wait.
What the? Where can I put text so that it shows up on my iPhone? You can't do it!! You can't write anything on your computer and then move that text to your iPhone. That is crazy.
Your dear friend Notes McNoterson to the rescue! Who is Mr. McNoterson you ask? He is your an entry in your Address Book where you paste notes. This entry is then sync'd to your iPhone and you can view and even edit the notes.
Let's see it in action!
Yesterday on the Belmont Station Blog they mentioned Lakefront's Fuel Cafe Coffee Stout, a beer with caffeine! YES PLEASE! I want to remember that the next time I'm there, so I copy the text and paste it into the notes section of Notes McNoterson:
(I did a Google Image Search for "fancy man" to find an image.)
Next, sync your iPhone with iTunes:
And then look up Mr. McNoterson to see what you want to be reminded of:
Pow! There you have it. You now have a notes field you can edit on your iPhone or your computer and they will sync. (But really Apple, how hard would it be to just make "Notes" work?)
Ms. Pac Man (video)
Posted by: kmikeym
5 Questions For HumanCalendar.com
Posted by: kmikeym
Craig made humancalendar.com, and he asked Willow and I to be a part of it (I'm Monday, she's Friday). I know Craig from the internet because I was a big fan of humanclock.com. Here are five questions for Craig:1. Who Are You?
I am Daniel Craig Giffen of Yakima, WA. I go by Craig. I didn't have hippie parents, so I think the reason I'm called by my middle name was to get more free ice cream cones on my birthday from Baskin Robbins. (I'd get birthday coupons as "Daniel Giffen, Craig Giffen, Craig Griffith, Daniel Giffin, etc). I drove a Camaro in high school, with Van Halen in the cassette deck.
Anyway...some past projects include:
http://www.pctplanner.com
I finished hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada in 1996. I wrote a planning program for it in 1997. Basically it is a glorified web-based Excel spreadsheet to help you figure out how much food to mail to yourself between resupply points. I've had a new version of the site on the back burner for about seven years now.
http://www.ilikeboobs.com
A "presidential boobittude" voting site. Basically during the 2000 election I made a site where you could vote for the biggest "boob". The whole entire site was done in scanned color crayon drawings. Currently the domain ends up at my Australia travel site, so I guess I have an Apache setup misconfigured somewhere.
http://www.lunky.com
A travel site I built when I biked around Australia in 2002-2003. The site is very basic, but keep in mind, I wrote an entire system so I could update the site with floppy disks since I couldn't get my laptop online too much while I was in Australia. ("wiFi" is/was unheard of there")
http://www.humanclock.com
A photo for every minute of the day that changes every minute. There are about 15,000 photos in there right now. So if you go to the site and the current time happens to be 4:35 PM, you might see a piece of cardboard with the time on it below the Woody Guthrie statue in Okemah, Oklahoma.
2. What is HumanCalender.com?
Ah Mike, it is humancalendar.com. Humancalender.com is a mispelling I should have registered way back when. Currently it goes to the website of some guy in India who is good about telling you what day of the week a given date falls on. Anyway, humancalendar.com is a calendar of people all looking at the current date. Picture a grid of 40 people posing for DMV photos, but instead they are all looking at the current date. So as the date changes, everyone's head position will change.
3. How Does it Work?
Basically every day is a static image of the calendar. I have a script that I wrote that goes out and figures out what photo it needs for a given square, then glues them all together. I had to use a lot of that math that I learned in Mr. Garrison's 9th grade geometry class. I took all the photos in my garage in a makeshift "studio".
4. Why Did You Make It?
I made it mostly because I though of the idea and it hadn't been done before as far as I knew. As I was building the site I was thinking it would be cool to retake everyone's photo in 2027 when everyone has grey hair and gets to work with jetpacks.
5. When Did You Get The Idea?
I came up with the idea in 2002 and didn't start really working on it until 2003. I had a working version in 2003 but still needed to take photos of several different people. I tried several times to get something rolling but was never in the correct living situation to setup everything I needed photo-studio-wise. (I moved about 5 times between 2003-2005,etc). Finally when I bought a house I was able to setup a photo studio in the garage. (although that still involved a lot of work, my Dad and I had to chain the garage to my pickup and pull it towards Mt. Tabor to get it a little more square).
