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Binary Search For The Mouse And Keyboard (wtf?)
Project page: http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/keynav Problem: I'm lazy
Moving the mouse is hard work. I'm lazy.
Let's give focus to windows without the mouse.
Steps:
Realize I want focus another window
Find the mouse with my right hand (time wasted)
Move the mouse on top of my desired window, Click?
Enjoy my new window focus.
Solution
Stop using the mouse. Let's zoom using binary search.
Steps:
Continuously split the screen in halves.
Stop when you're in your desired area.
Have a beer!
Speed
Splitting by half gives us logarithmic scaling
Worst case for a 1920x1200 resolution screen:
log2(1920) + log2(1200) = 21.13
log2 is log base 2
21 moves to select any pixel on the screen.
Speed!?
21 moves? That sucks.
Good things I don't want to select pixels.
Best I want is a 60x60 piece and move there.
This cuts the maximum number of moves to about 10.
On my laptop, I average 2.2 moves
On my normal workstation, predict average of 5 moves each time.
Why is this cool?
I can focus any window on my screen with 5 keystrokes or less.
The Idea
Leverage a Yahoo! property to store and tag audio files
Options (part one)
Reasonable options:
QuickTime uploads to video.yahoo.com
Upload audio files to GeoCities?
Options (part deux)
Unreasonable options:
Use 'data:' urls and upload the data to del.icio.us.
Decision
Encoding the data into giant url strings?
Perfect! Let's do it.
Solution
Use delicious posting api to push data.
Use FUSE and Python to create a delicious-backed filesystem
Write files to the filesystem and have them uploaded to delicious
Difficulty: data urls
Delicious will not make any posts public that are not http:// urls (with a few exceptions).
Solution: Prefix data urls with 'http://'
Example: http://blah/data:text/plain,hello+there
Difficulty: File Sizes
Maximum URL size in delicious is 65536 characters (64kb).
Solution:
Split files into 64kb chunks and upload separately
How do we join all the files together?
Special Sauce: Bootstrap code
Need some sort of boot-strap code to pull and join chunks.
Easy. Craft HTML and use a data url pointing at html+javascript as bootstrap code
Remember, data urls are not public, how do we execute our bootstrap code?
ask.com has a blind redirector. Use it as a real http url and redirect to our bootstrap code
Example:
Statistics
What kind of files? Any
What's the maximum file size? Probably 3 megs (for now?)
Max file size
Why a max file size?
Delicious JSON api only returns a maximum of 100 links to a tag query. This means a maximum of 100 chunks.
Solution: Split files across tags and chunks. Result: infinite storage
