Adjustable Height Desks

Both of these look like pretty sweet adjustable height desks;

- Geek Desk electronic and runs $750 to $800

or

- Airtouch uses air and no electronics - twice the price at $1500

hopefully I'll be able to try one of these out soon

Offsides? I think not...

Pomodoro Timer application

After reading an article on infoQ, I started using the Pomodoro technique. It works pretty good, but I do still strugle with making my self take a break after the 25 minutes is up.

I recently spent a few days and created a simple timer application to monitor my pomodoros, it is pretty rough around the edges, but good enough for a first release.

I wanted to check out Appcelerator and their Titanium framework, this seemed like a simple enough app to get started with. Titanium allows you to build an app using html, css and javascript then the Titanium framework will 'compile' your code into a desktop application that targets all major operating systems; Windows, Mac and Linux.

In the end I did not really use any of the Titanium Api in my code, just jquery, css and html.

Code is available here: http://github.com/house9/tick-tock-desktop

or download the binaries here:

http://api.appcelerator.net/p/pages/app_page?token=H4m4AYM4

jsfiddle is awesome!

http://jsfiddle.net/

I had seen some blog posts on jsfiddle before, but just checked it out for the first time, a great way to experiment with javascript code, comes built in with jquery, mootools and more

Snag-it for the Mac

I have used Snag-it on Windows for many years - it is a great product!

During the last year I have been using Ubuntu and Mac and been missing Snag-it; Shutter on Ubuntu is 'ok', but not quite on the same level as Snag-it

I was happy to discover that there was a beta of Snag-it for the Mac

http://www.techsmith.com/snagitmac/

Free right now, been using it for the last month - it seems even better than the version for windows!

Need to find real estate comps? www.redfin.com

Need to find real estate comps? www.redfin.com is a sweet site. Not only can you search for new homes on the MLS listings but you can also search previous Sale Records. I don't know of any other site that offers the same functionality. Click the 'More Options' link by the 'Search Listings' button.

Another really nice feature, If you find a bunch of homes for sale in a viewable area on the map, click the 'DOWNLOAD' link to get all of the info in excel (csv).