This is my desktop right now, showing all Safari Windows. I need someone to write a piece of software treats my browsers/tabs as if they were stacks of paper I could sort at a desk. I keep things on the screen because I need information from them. There is a tipping point where I you get past the point of knowing where your information is.
You’d think now with Core Animation, someone could come up with a way of shrinking windows/tabs to stacks, plus auto-logically grouping tabs according to thematics? Please?
Have you seen BumpTop?
The weakness (aside from its vaporware (sorry, “private alpha”) status 
is that it works on documents, not web pages, as far as I can tell. Same goes for OS X’s “Stack” function.
The only Web-oriented thing I found in this class is SpaceTime. I played with it a few months ago; it’s not ready for prime time. Performance was poor on my 2-year-old Dell Inspiron laptop. 3D navigation was limited; I ended up with a few rows of pages receding into the distance, but didn’t have full freedom of motion. And none of the auto-grouping smarts you’re looking for (tho that is a whole new domain, and much harder than the 3D rendering these products concentrate on). Definitely needs a lot of work.
But at least there’s some motion going on.
BTW, what’s with all these LazyWeb requests from you recently? Don’t you code anymore? Scratch your own itch! (Sez Val, who has any number of “I gotta play with this cool tech” projects on the back burner (Django, Processing, etc.
Safari > Window > Merge All Windows
I think you’re looking for Bumptop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ
http://bumptop.com/
Unfortunately… not available yet.
Good god Ethan! Hahaha
How long does it take you to read and do everything that’s open?
Or, do you just shut it all down at some point and say “to hell with it” then re-open stuff at a later time?
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The XMPP feed was really cool. Why Twitter won't allow relaying is beyond me. If twitter decentralized and did a node/hub based architecture with a good toolkit, things would be much different.
[From No XMPP: What Is Twitter Protecting?]- #
So why couldn't a loosely coupled, queue based system using XMPP work as a twitter clone? Hash table lookups for @replies, a good OSPF type routing table for interserver communication and asynchronous messaging propagation. Lets get cracking!
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The dutch certainly like their Twitters! That's better twitter coverage than we got at most of the US shows.
[From July 2nd, Amsterdam, Netherlands | R.E.M. Tour, 2008]- #
For the past ten years "tapped for web series" has usually been synonymous for "lots of money on stuff no one will want to watch." Can Google + MacFarlane reverse this? Probably not, because they don't understand the concept of Windowing. Content is successful when not built up with expectations.
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Crystal was a great asset to the team and it will be sad to lose her, but our loss is many other people's gains and I wish her well in Seattle!
[From Clever, Clever Girl » Big Changes and a Bigger Move]- #
This is severely retarded. Honestly. In Orange County, a city with a plentiful population of people needing jobs and wanting to work and invested in their communities, a paper instead opts to crowdsource through Indian outsourcing than maybe offering to give something back to the community by crowd sourcing through, maybe parts of the city with high unemployment? Fuck. The stupidity abounds.
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So this is another in the line of REM experiments. With this one, fans can help create the animations for the tour backdrop in the European leg, through October. The animations will get assembled and shipped off to Blue Leach, who is doing the background video.
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Bill Gates = a personal hero. I love this e-mail. Microsoft is also a case of spreading things too thin.
[From Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant]- #
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