I’ve never been more psyched to have an iPad.
Of all the fancy-shmancy apps that I use every day to do whatever it is that I do, SelfControl is probably one of the coolest, simplest, and most important. All it does is block you from visiting distracting sites for a fixed amount of time when you should be working. The app’s site explains it best:
Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X application which blocks access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and websites for a predetermined period of time. For example, you could block access to your email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still have access to the rest of the web. Once started, it can not be undone by the application, by deleting the application, or by restarting the computer – you must wait for the timer to run out.
I would literally get nothing done ever without it. Go pick it up FOR FREE here.
I was browsing the webz and just stumbled across this and thought it looked pretty cool. According to their site, “Sencha Touch is the world’s first app framework built specifically to leverage HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript for the highest level of power, flexibility, and optimization.”
What does this mean for you developers? Basically you can use their framework to build completely standards-compliant mobile web apps much more quickly and easily than doing it all from scratch yourself. Right now it supports iOS and Android devices, but the site says they will be expanding on that some (not that they really need to, those 2 OSes are basically the entire mobile app market).
I’m pretty excited to get a minute to mess around with it some. I’ll be sure to make a post on here about it with some more info once I do.
