A FlexTime customer recently asked me if there was any way to set up a routine such that each activity in the routine would take a random period of time. His interest was in having FlexTime remind him at irregular intervals to stay focused on the task at hand. Unfortunately, the short answer is “no.” [...]
Anybody who’s ever taken a public speaking class, in high school or college, remembers the strict time considerations that were placed on speech assignments. I remember mine, at City College of San Francisco, where the instructor would sit in the back corner of the room with a stopwatch around his neck. At the beginning of [...]
Resolution independence is the notion that all graphics on a computer display should be zoomable to an arbitrary multiplier without losing quality. If you know even the slightest thing about computer graphics, you’ll understand that in a resolution independent world, bitmaps are out and vector graphics are in. Vector graphics can scale gracefully to an [...]
Tim Altman asks whether a “Random Sound” option might be a good enhancement for FlexTime’s “Play Sound” cue type. I think this is an interesting idea, and definitely worth considering. But what can I do for Tim right now?
Another case of AppleScript to the rescue. By setting an activity’s starting cue to “Play [...]
My name is Daniel Jalkut. I'm a Mac software developer and founder of Red Sweater Software, LLC.
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