Apple doesn’t sponsor or otherwise participate in SXSW, seems to have stolen the spotlight somewhat with its temporary Downtown SXSW Retail Store.
Talking of SXSW, whilst I’m not heading to Austin this year (sadly) if you’re making the trip then you’d be foolish not to give Lanyrd’s excellent SXSW Interactive session guide.
Even if you’re not making the trip, I’d recommend you give it a look as the session content is also going to be added to the listings.
Just in time for both SXSW and the iPad 2 launch tomorrow, there’s a 5,000 square foot space being turned into a temporary store for two weeks. To quote Richard:
Those clever, clever bastards.
I have a feeling that store will be pretty popular tomorrow evening.
Just a quick repost, what with the SXSW Panel Picker closing this week. If you’d like to see Elliot Jay Stocks, Sam Brown, Andy McMillan and myself’s panel proposal for next year’s SXSW Interactive Festival become a reality, we’d appreciate you heading over to the Panel Picker and giving it a thumbs up.
The SXSW 2011 Panel Picker is live, and if you’d be interested in seeing a panel with Elliot Jay Stocks, Sam Brown, Andy McMillan and yours truly running about our respective side projects that have taken on lives of their own (namely 8 Faces, endor.se, Build Conference and Happening) we’d appreciate you giving the panel a thumbs-up on the Panel Picker.
Genius - the punchline is particularly apt. I’ve been steering clear of alcohol since my return from SXSW.
If you’re into industrial design, you’ll probably enjoy Objectified as it is, but I was left wanting more. Gary Hustwit is already working on a third design-based film that he hopes he can close out his “little design trilogy” with. One thing is for certain, and that’s the fact that more filmmakers should have websites/blogs like Objectified’s. It’s nice to see an enthusiastic filmmaker blog and harp on his movie.
After seeing Dan’s post on avoiding SXSW tweets in Firefox using Greasemonkey, I figured I’d share some tips for Twitterrific on the desktop, as there’s actually some seekrit things you can do to filter out tweets containing specific terms.
Simply enter the following into the Terminal and hit return:
defaults write com.iconfactory.Twitterrific tweetTextFilter -string "([sS][xX][sS][wW])"
Upon restarting Twitterrific, the application will filter out any tweets containing the word or hashtag SXSW. If you’re wanting to have a number of options, enter multiple terms separated by a vertical line:
defaults write com.iconfactory.Twitterrific tweetTextFilter -string "(please RT|RT please|@Scobleizer|Austin|[sS][xX][sS][wW]|#[sS][xX][sS][wW])"
The one above is one that I’m using on the desktop (apart from the SXSW mentions) and I’ve used it previously to hide annoying Twitter competitions and the like. To filter out tweets with other terms, simply manipulate the expression in brackets to your needs. You can enter URLs, hashtags and the like to you needs, but be sure to remember that for now, the terminal command will overwrite the existing expression instead of adding things to it so you’ll need to enter the entire thing once again. I remain hopeful that the Icon Factory will add a UI for this functionality (even if it’s just a basic ‘exclude’ list). There’s plenty more options to tinker with via the Terminal if you read the Twitterrific 3.2 Read Me included with the Twitterrific download.
Brief word from the lawyers: This is known to cause no damage to anything on your Mac. But you use it at your own risk and agree not to sue me ‘til kingdom come if your Mac starts killing kittens.
Update for Tweetie Users: If you’re looking to filter tweets in Tweetie, you might want to take a look at this post from developer Loren Brichter.
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