I am stuck in standby hell (an airline term in which you are stuck in airports) in Orange. County. I am watching the Great Final and Rayados is losing by one goal. This is impossible, right? Vucetich cannot lose a Final! Is it the end of the world? Were the Mayans right? No, that can’t be.
And then I look outside and a dragon is devouring the sun! It is the end of the world! What’s happening?!
In 2007 I posted a long list of “seemingly obvious” missing software features on the iPhone, which ran what was then known as OS X Mobile and today Apple calls iOS. Since then, most were either implemented (video, VoIP, games, etc.) or are no longer desired (Flash, Java).
I thought I’d revisit now, a month away from WWDC where there is a good chance that iOS 6.0 will be announced, even though I don’t think any of these are “seemingly obvious” anymore.
Do you have any other suggestions?
When I got back home last Thursday, I found this at the door:
A DeLonghi Alicia electric espresso maker!
As you can see, it looks like a regular old school stove-top espresso maker. But this one uses electricity instead of a stove, making it viable for office use! I first learned about it in Amanda’s blog so I added it to The MKX® Wish List on a whim (readers: it’s not too late to buy me a birthday present). Turns out a reader got it for me 
It’s three main pieces. The left-most thing is what replaces the stove. The pitcher itself is clear which is cool because watching espresso brew is cool. So what.
Everything is standard. You add the coffee, you screw everything together. You push the button and wait. I’m just posting the photos because they look neat, not because they are all that informative.
The brewing process is short. The coffee comes out tasting great and the whole thing is easy to clean. It makes enough for maybe 3 cups of espresso. For the price I think it’s a worthy investment. If you buy one, maybe you can use the link below so that I get a tiny referral bonus?
Recommendation: If you work at an office and hate office coffee, buy this. It works really well and it only costs about 20 Starbucks espresso shots.
Here’s a video of the Ukranian protest group FEMEN staging yet another protest. I don’t speak Ukranian so I don’t really know what it is they want. But I urge the Ukrainian government to stay strong and not give up to their demands. We wouldn’t want these protests to end, would we?
Esther Cory was bored and used some work equipment to scan a sand dollar. For her trouble, Micro Photonics Inc., the makers of the equipment, selected what she did as Image of the Month. For that she won a large sum of cash, an award at a ceremony, and a free trip to the headquarters in Belgium. Nah, she just got the mention and the world’s admiration. Here it is:
The Coffice: California edition.
Last night I was reading some online documentation on Safari on my iPad and was annoyed by the small font size. On most web sites, the text is formatted in narrow columns and you just double tap to zoom in perfectly. In this case that wouldn’t work well because the text spans from edge to edge on the site. You’ve probably bumped into a similar situation on your iPhone or iPad.
This morning I looked around for a solution. I didn’t find exactly what I was looking for ; but I combined and modified some of the things I found and created two bookmarklets: one that increases the font size of the page you are in, and one that decreases it.
There are two ways to install them.
Method A
If you use iCloud to synchronize bookmarks between Safari on your Mac or PC and your iPhone/iPad, then the easiest way is to do this from your computer. Just drag the two links below to your Bookmarks Bar.
Let iCloud take care of the syncing for you.
Method B
If you need to do this from your iPhone/iPad because you don’t use iCloud for syncing bookmarks, then things are a little harder. I won’t describe the process here because others have already done a great job. The only difference is that you will use the code from my bookmarklets:
Font-:
javascript:var p=document.getElementsByTagName('*');for(i=0;i<p.length;i++){if(p[i].style.fontSize){var s=parseInt(p[i].style.fontSize.replace("px",""));}else{var s=12;}s-=2;p[i].style.fontSize=s+"px"}
Font+:
javascript:var p=document.getElementsByTagName('*');for(i=0;i<p.length;i++){if(p[i].style.fontSize){var s=parseInt(p[i].style.fontSize.replace("px",""));}else{var s=12;}s+=2;p[i].style.fontSize=s+"px"}
Once you have installed the bookmarklets, use them the same way you use a bookmark. I recommend putting them on the Bookmarks Bar for quick access, as shown:
Bookmarklets on iPad
This is how the original website looks:
Original font size
And this is how it looks after increasing the font size a couple of times:
After increasing the font size using the bookmarklet.
In order to reset the font size back to its default, just reload! Hope you find this useful.
Notably, last week I randomly bumped into three different music shows by bands whose members are really, really young. All within 24 hours.
First one in the pub across the street from our house:
Children rock band at the Kensington Circus Pub
Second one at the Farmer’s Market, between my house and the aforementioned pub”
Violin playing kids at the Kensington Farmer's Market
Third one in San Francisco:
Haunted by Heroes "The World's Youngest Rock Band" at the Earth Day Festival in San Francisco
They were all notably good. But I recommend you look at videos from the third one.
Last week was Earth Day. I headed off to San Francisco to check out the festival at the Civic Center Plaza. In keeping with the spirit of the day, I left my Hummer at home and took the BART instead. A few photos below:
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