My Todo.txt project turned five years old last month—happy birthday, shell script which runs my life—and development is still going strong. The Android app is selling great, iOS app development is moving along, and now Ben Hughes has released a simple Windows client replete with keyboard shortcuts, no Cygwin required. Nice job, Ben! Download the todotxt.net Windows installer here to give it a go.
“Notice the ASCII art rendering of a floppy drive” · Watch as a modern PC gets Windows 1.0 installed, and upgraded through every major version up to Windows 7. Not sure what's more amazing; that this screencast is possible today in a VMware virtual machine, or that applications installed in Windows 3.1 still worked through every upgrade to Windows 7, representing nearly 20 years of compatibility. (via kottke) ∞ March 3rd, 2011, 7 comments
See whether or not your ISP's DNS server is faster or slower than other alternatives like OpenDNS or Google Public DNS with Namebench. This free benchmarking tool pits your current DNS servers against alternatives and generates handy charts and recommendations for which of your DNS choices are the fastest. Using either your browser history or Alexa's top 10,000 global domain names, by default Namebench runs 200 tests to see which resolve most quickly using regional DNS servers, public services like Google's and OpenDNS's, and your current DNS services. Here's what some of the benchmark results look like.
I'm Gina Trapani: creator of ThinkUp and Todo.txt apps, host of This Week in Google, founding and former editor of Lifehacker. This is my personal blog.
Notes on Code, a linkblog
Logo by annedien hoen
"You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it." —Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
