Archive for the 'Software' Category

Automatically Adding Birthdays to Google Calendar

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Have you ever missed 3 important birthdays in a period of 3 weeks? Well I just did and this experience inspired me to create a program to read birthdays out of my Gmail contact’s notes and add them into Google calendar 10 years going forward. I’ll never forget a birthday again!
Here’s how it […]

Grocist: a Barcode Driven Grocery List Web Application

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

I’m proud to introduce a little web application I’ve been working on for the past few weeks. I call it:

Grocist

It works like this:
You plug a barcode scanner into your computer (preferably one in the kitchen):

and simply scan the barcodes of any packages before you discard them.

(typing in items such as bananas also works for […]

Google Earth - Draw an n mile radious circle around a point

Friday, November 18th, 2005

Want to see a circle of radious n around a given point?

Introducing Just One Club Card

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Put all of your club cards onto one card. Lighten your wallet, Impress the cashiers…

Social Code Editing Experiment

Friday, October 14th, 2005

Lets all try editing this thing.