iPhone OS 3.0 Screenshots: Copy & Paste

Date June 17, 2009

This also demonstrates landscape typing in the Notes application. The blue handles in the second screenshot are used to select text.

iPhone OS 3.0 Screenshots: Copy & Paste

iPhone OS 3.0 Screenshots: Copy & Paste

100 VCs You Should Follow on Twitter (Global VC Twitter Directory)

Date June 1, 2009

Over the weekend, Fidelity Ventures’ Larry Cheng compiled an excellent list of global VCs ranked by number of Google Reader subscribers.

I’ve taken the list a step further, providing links to each of their twitter profiles, where available. About 30% of the VCs on Larry’s list do not use twitter.

  1. Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Ventures @guykawasaki
  2. Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures @fredwilson
  3. David Hornik, August Capital @davidhornik
  4. Brad Feld, Foundry Group @bfeld
  5. Marc Andreesen, n/a @pmarcablog
  6. Josh Kopelman, First Round Capital @joshk
  7. Ed Sim, Dawntreader Ventures @edsim
  8. Jeremy Liew, Lightspeed Ventures Partners @jeremysliew
  9. Bill Gurley, Benchmark Capital @bgurley
  10. Jeff Nolan, SAP Ventures @jeffnolan
  11. Christopher Allen, Alacrity Ventures @ChristopherA
  12. Seth Levine, Foundry Group @sether
  13. Jeff Bussgang, Flybridge Capital Partners @bussgang
  14. Mike Hirshland, Polaris Venture Partners @VCMike
  15. Jeff Clavier, SoftTech VC @Jeff
  16. Mendelson/Feld, Foundry Group @jasonmendelson @bfeld
  17. Paul Kedrosky, Ventures West @pkedrosky
  18. Jason Caplain, Southern Capitol Ventures @jcaplain
  19. Nic Brisbourne, Esprit Capital Partners @brisbourne
  20. Jason Mendelson, Foundry Group @jasonmendelson
  21. Ryan McIntyre, Foundry Group @ryan_mcintyre
  22. Howard Morgan, First Round Capital @HLMorgan
  23. Raj Kapoor, Mayfield Fund @Rajil
  24. Christine Herron, First Round Capital @christine
  25. Fred Destin, Atlas Venture @fdestin
  26. Saul Klein, Index Ventures @cape
  27. Vineet Buch, BlueRun Ventures @VineetBuch
  28. Andrew Parker, Union Square Ventures @andrewparker
  29. Bijan Sabet, Spark Capital @bijan
  30. Rob Finn, Edison Venture @robfinn
  31. Marc Goldberg, Occam Capital @MarcGoldberg
  32. Daniel Cohen, Israel Venture Partners @coheda
  33. James Chen, CXO Ventures @cxo
  34. David Aronoff, Flybridge Capital Partners @dba
  35. Max Bleyleben, Kennet Partners @mbleyleben
  36. Jeremy Levine, Bessemer Venture Partners @jeremyl
  37. Jason Ball, Qualcomm Ventures Europe @jasonball
  38. Mark Peter Davis, DFJ Gotham Ventures @markpeterdavis
  39. Rob Hayes, First Round Capital @robhayes
  40. Michael Eisenberg, Benchmark Capital @mikeeisenberg
  41. Chris Fralic, First Round Capital @chrisfralic
  42. Sagi Rubin, Virgin Green Fund @sagirubin
  43. Richard Dale, Sigma Partners @rdale
  44. John Ludwig, Ignition Partners @jhludwig
  45. Dan Rua, Inflexion Partners @danrua
  46. Steve Brotman, Silicon Alley Venture Partners @stevebrotman
  47. Larry Cheng, Fidelity Ventures @larryvc
  48. Martin Tobias, Ignition Partners @ministeroforder
  49. Matt Winn, Chrysalis Ventures @mattwinn
  50. Sarah Tavel, Bessemer Venture Partners @adventurista
  51. Stewart Alsop, Alsop-Louie Partners @salsop
  52. Rich Tong, Ignition Partners @richtong
  53. George Zachary, Charles River Ventures @georgezachary
  54. Rob Go, Spark Capital @robgo
  55. Rachel Strate, EPIC Ventures @WasatchGirl
  56. Sid Mohasseb, Tech Coast Angels @sidmohasseb
  57. Mo Koyfman, Spark Capital @mokoyfman
  58. Rob Day, @Ventures @cleantechvc
  59. Marc Averitt, Okapi Venture Capital @OCVC
  60. Michael Greeley, Flybridge Capital Partners @FlybridgeCap
  61. Ted Driscoll, Claremont Creek Ventures @easydjr
  62. Santo Politi, Spark Capital @santopoliti
  63. David Dufresne, Desjardins Venture Capital @DavidDufresne
  64. Todd Klein, Legend Ventures @tdklein
  65. Max Niederhofer, Atlas Venture @maxniederhofer
  66. Vinit Nijhawan, Key Venture Partners @vinit44
  67. Multiple Authors, Brightspark Ventures @MarkSkapinker @Sophiebspark @antman102
  68. Rob Schultz, IllinoisVENTURES @crobtri
  69. Ouriel Ohayon, Lightspeed Gemini Internet Lab @OurielOhayon
  70. Brian Hirsch, Greenhill SAVP @hirschb

How to transfer your Seesmic Desktop settings between two computers

Date May 21, 2009

After building out a fairly involved environment in Seesmic Desktop, I needed to copy it over to another computer. This information was a little hard to find. They don’t guarantee it will work for transfer between different operating systems. Good luck!

You’ll need to copy the file “xmlAdapter.xml” to the second computer. The location of this file varies by OS.

Seesmic Desktop - Transferring Settings between Computers - workaround
http://help.seesmic.com/forums/29255/entries/36372

It would be great to see an import/export feature in an upcoming release.

Netflix Tales

Date September 8, 2008

(Update: After sharing this story with a few friends, I was encouraged to send it to Leah Garchik at the San Francisco Chronicle. A few days later it appeared in print. Thanks Leah!)

This morning while walking to the J line stop on Church Street, I needed to stop at the blue post box on the corner to drop off one of those little red Netflix envelopes.

As I approached the post box, a frail little old lady was also approaching, but from the opposite side, and half a second closer than me.

I politely yielded to her, and to my surprise, after she released her letter, she looked up at me and said, “What movie did you watch?”

Being a little off balance without caffeine on a Monday morning, and also a bit stunned from her knowledge of Netflix, I quite innocently responded, “Snatch”.

But before the word finished leaving my mouth I knew what I had done, and without missing a beat began rapid firing my defense, “It’s with Benicio Del Toro…a British film…directed by Guy Ritchie…Brad Pitt is in it too…it’s about a boxer and a heist”.

Her response was simply, “Sounds more like a porno.”

:)

How to ring the system bell with Ruby (Win32)

Date August 16, 2008

There a couple ways to accomplish this. My application required the first option because the second wouldn’t work from within Eclipse.

require "win32/sound"
include Win32

Sound.play(SystemAsterisk", Sound::ALIAS) # play system asterisk sound
Sound.beep(600,200) # play a beep 600 hertz for 200 milliseconds

or

irb(main):001:0> puts "\a"
=> nil
irb(main):002:0>

The Ruby on Windows blog has some additional info about Adding Sound to Your Ruby Apps.

(Side note: I’ve posted this because it was almost impossible to find by googling. See for yourself what happens when you search for “ruby ring a bell”- you’ll get about 200,000 false positives.)