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Switching from Magic Mouse to Magic Trackpad
Mar 21st
A friend told me he was using the Magic Trackpad instead of the Mouse, I was curious what effect this would have on my right hand. So I ordered the Magic Trackpad for my Mac. I think it will be hard to get used to but lets give it a try. And get some blood pumping trough my vanes as I have to move my hand more often on a Trackpad 
Will let you know my experience with it once I get it!
Expanding my programming knowledge with: iPhone development
Oct 21st
Yeah, I started to learn iPhone development a while back, but gave up pretty easily when work started to get busy. But now I finally found some time to continue learning the cool, but different language: Objective-C.
I started to watch the movies on iTunes U, enrolled as a Apple developer and bought some books, even though I watched over 8 hours of video I haven’t touched xCode yet But brewing up some idea’s already that would make cool apps! So look out in the App store if you see my name or my company name scrolling by!
The books I bought:
- Beginning iPhone development: Exploring the iPhone SDK
- Apps maken voor de iPhone (dutch)
Other resources:
- Apple developer center
Good replacement for QuickSilver: Alfred App!
Oct 21st
My friend (@jvdmeulen) tipped me about this App after seeing how slow QuickSilver sometimes reacts on my computer because, i don’t know, i have many apps? But anyway the performance is below acceptable now for quicksilver. So he came up with the app Alfred. (www.alfredapp.com) And it is really cool, and very, very fast! It does some other cool stuff too kind of like quicksilver, but more thought trough. They are still in beta, but that is not always a bad thing. You can also buy a Powerpack for only 12 euro’s (or so) with even more features! Be sure to check it out if you are a QuickSilver user!
My latest acquisition, Apple’s iPad 3G
Sep 8th
My latest acquisition But not sure yet what to do with it… I think i’ll hold on to it until my iPhone 4 is in the mailbox and then sell it again 
My top Mac apps for web development
May 13th
I’ve seen many blogs from colleague web developers sharing their top 10 mac apps or something like that, I always find it interesting to read what applications they use. So here I am sharing my top applications I use daily for my work.
I am not putting the apps in a Top # order but in order how many times I use it, or the importance for the app to me.
Coda
Coda is in my eyes the holy grail of web development apps in the genre Text editors, but it’s so much more then just a text editor. Many people prefer Text Mate, I’ve tried that too, but once using coda u never go back. Hehe. Coda is lightweight and fast to use, It has build in Sites to save your sites obviously, very easy to use. And it has a build-in preview option, but I don’t use that, I prefer switching to Firefox. What I do use is the build in Books option, this lets you view for instance the PHP documentation, and you can easily search the books. For more information about all functionalities of coda like Sites, Preview, CSS, Terminal and Books visit their website.
Trying out Apple’s Magic Mouse
May 12th
I needed a small keyboard for my new HTPC, so I bought the new wireless keyboard from Apple. While I was at it.. I saw the Magic Mouse. I’ve had a mac since 5 years now, and mac accessories too, but I always had a ugly logitech mouse next to the keyboard. So now I’m trying out the new Magic Mouse. First impressions are good, it feels good in the hand and it responds better then I expected. The smooth scrolling is nice too, but sometimes when I’m reading an article I accidentally scroll down because my hand rests on the mouse. That’s annoying but need to learn to keep my hand still I guess
What makes you a better webdeveloper: problem solving
Aug 19th
With multiple browsers, platforms, etc, problem solving is a must for any web developer.
Your footer that bitches about how your site doesn’t work in IE6 and you don’t care, tells me that you don’t know enough about your profession to make it work in IE6. Don’t whine that your code doesn’t work, figure out a way to make it work. There is more than one way to mark up a page.
No one wants to hire a whiner, they don’t even want to know there was a problem. It’s your job to find it and fix it as if it didn’t even exist. If you can do that, you will surely go far.
By http://noahstokes.com
Lorem ipsum fail in dutch news paper
Jun 16th
Lol, a dutch newspaper called Spits misprinted their paper today, kind of funny to see those text samples in a paper tho
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HTML Entity character lookup
Jun 16th
I always forget the most html entities, and many many times i just look them up on google, but i stumbled upon this cool website that allows you to search for characters and returns the HTML entity for it! Bookmark wordy to me! check it out
They even made a widget for it, and a Firefox plugin but since i never use Dashboard i prefer the search plugin they made
5 Ways to Maximize PPC Impressions
Jun 11th
It’s exciting to have a client with a virtually unlimited budget. But every effort has its unique obstacles, and limited impression share is a big one for aggressive advertisers.
Usually in PPC, the goal is to get the best return from a limited budget. But when you get a client whose goal is to dominate the market and get as much profit as possible by spending as much as possible, you run into the problem of limited PPC impressions.
