I love Clip-N-Seals. I wrote about them in a column, and bought a bunch from Amazon, and they keep chips (what I call crisps) fresh for months on end. Amazing, really, for two bits of plastic. Anyway, they’re going to space, according to Seattle PI’s Insider: NASA buys bag clips, but lips are sealed on… Read More »
I’m not sure this is new, but it’s an interesting feature of Amazon’s new look storefront: a tab that expands as you move your mouse over it: changes to this: (resized). Move the mouse away from the pop-up and it disappears. Not a bad navigation tool.
At the risk of becoming a PR machine for 37 Signals and Backpack, they’ve come out with another interesting feature, this time an API: Jason Fried tells me that the API will mean “developers…can now build on top of Backpack their own apps, pull Backpack data into their own systems, push data to Backpack from… Read More »
In today’s column (subscription required) for WSJ.com and The Asian Wall Street Journal‘s Personal Journal section I write about tags — the kind found on del.icio.us and Flickr. I spoke — or at least IMed — with some interesting people to research the story, and thought I’d post excerpts from some of the chats, with… Read More »
Here’s another bit of Moleskinerie, this time from Merlin Mann, who was also kind enough to answer my questions about the notebook phenomenon. His answers took the form of a short essay, which I offer in its entirety: There’s still a desire and a market out there for PDAs–particularly when they’re well integrated with your… Read More »