In Drupal, the Imagefield fieldtype comes with a built-in thumbnail generator. If you’d like to control the size of the thumbnail, just set the value of the imagefield_thumb_size variable, like so:
variable_set('imagefield_thumb_size', '200x200');
That’ll set the imagefield thumbnail size to 200 x 200 pixels.
They just released a version of the eReader software (formerly Palm eReader, then just eReader, now the Barnes and Noble eReader) for the Android platform.
It’s a little bit buggy: you need to wait for an entire book’s table of contents to load before reading/scrolling, else the book will get stuck partway through. Other than that, it works great on my G1. Nice to see a commercial ereader on a Linux platform. (Yes, the books still have DRM, but the format’s got some longevity behind it, and is supported on enough devices that I’m not worried about getting locked into one platform).
The Design of Everyday Things changed my life.
If you’ve ever used the post-it notes in OS X’s Dashboard app, you know how handy those little buggers can be.
But (as far as I know), you can’t share those notes from computer to computer, and if you use a non-Mac OS, you can’t use them at all.
Thankfully, Posti.ca has put together a web service that gives you the look and feel of Apple’s Notes Widget but runs in your browser. Since creating an account is free, you can now sign up, create notes, and view them from any computer.
I’ve been using it to jot down ideas I have while at work that I need to follow up on at home. The service seems stable so far, though there are a few bugs they’ve yet to work out.