February 2011
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January 2011
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All I want is a "Copy CSS Styles" menu item.
Look Adobe (or any developer of image editing software for the mac): it doesn’t have to be this complicated. Trying to get CSS out of an image editor should be trivial. You know about a rectangle, its height, its width, how its being filled, if it has an outline, if it has transparency, if it has a border radius. You know this because I told you to make such a shape. I did it your way and...
December 2010
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My Preferred Terminal Typeface: Anonymous Pro →
Anonymous Pro (2009) is a family of four fixed-width fonts designed especially with coding in mind. Characters that could be mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) have distinct shapes to make them easier to tell apart in the context of source code.
I also roll it on a barely transparent black background (just enough to see text I might be copying behind it) in a lovely shade of banana...
Bonobos couldn't be a better men's shopping...
I’ve been asked a few times for a good recommendation on where to go to shop for great everyday (work/life) guy clothes. I always say Bonobos, an online-only mens retailer that started off with a better-fitting pant but now does so SO much more so SO consistently well.
Assuming all the stereotypes concerning guys and shopping are true, shopping online with Bonobos alleviates the following:
...
November 2010
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Email marketing in the smartphone era: mornings...
Go to bed with a zero inbox, wake up to 8 messages. Check email on the bus in: 5 marketing offers, 1 new follower, 1 coworker correspondence, 1 company emailbot telling me I still have no items caught by our spam filter (YAY!). I’ve got the iPhone set to show me the first 3 lines of copy of the email. Based on skimming the initial copy, I do the following, in order: delete, delete,...
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You Can't Ping a Podcast
You can’t “like” or “post” about a Podcast or iTunes U episode via Ping. You can’t use the Ping button to show the publisher or episode in the iTunes Store (a handy shortcut).
You can’t follow a university, or a Podcast publisher, or any one of the dozens of traditional media outlets who’ve done a real service providing their content via the iTunes...
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Blog - Zach Waugh: The difference between Apple... →
zachwaugh:
Every time Apple releases a new product, it becomes more and more clear that no other company really gets it. The next war for winning consumers’ hearts - in both hardware and software - will not be based on tech specs, but on usability and user experience. Computers are already way faster than…
The great impact of this article is the juxtaposition of images of the...
Tips from Google RE Instant Preview
My favorite parts from the official announcement:
Try to avoid interstitial pages, ad pop-ups, or other elements that interfere with your content. In some cases, these distracting elements may be picked up in the preview of your page, making the screenshots less attractive.
and
Currently, some videos or Flash content in previews appear as a “puzzle piece” icon or a black square....
@danielmall @daringfireball @simurai So we all...
As simurai has expertly demonstrated, a Flashless world does not equal a more CPU-friendly world (fire up a CPU meter with that page open in a modern browser). Clearly, any poorly-written code that finds its way spinning through our processors has the capacity to degrade the user experience, and Ars has found that there seems to be a lot of poorly-written, processor-intensive Flash ads posted up...
The Right Feel for an iPad Stylus →
marco:
In general, iPad styluses follow an incorrect cognitive mapping. The vast majority of them are designed to look and feel like a pen. Why? Writing or drawing on the iPad feels nothing like using a pen or pencil. For one, the fidelity is way too low. For one, the fidelity is way too low. Also, it is pretty awkward to rest your palm on the screen of the device because it throws off the...
iPod's Podcast UI Is Broken
You tell me what any one of these episodes are about:
I love the idea of not having to subscribe, sync, then listen to Podcasts, but instead stream them straight from the cloud when I want to. In theory, I can do this from the iPod app on the iPhone.
But as you can tell from the screenshot above, anyone who wants to do this is hard pressed to find precisely what they want to listen to.
...
October 2010
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Best. Microcopy. Ever.
Twitter.com didn’t work for me just a minute ago. Here’s how it told me:
As far as I can Google, Joshua Porter coined the term microcopy* to describe super tiny web web copy that succinctly informs the user of something contextually important. How to pay for your order, what to do next, and, perhaps most importantly, system errors, are some good examples of microcopy you’d...
September 2010
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Why be cool when you can be classic?
August 2010
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The static website framework I've always wanted. →
This is what I’ve been doing for the last few days, and its been a real pleasure and learning experience…
OProto uses the best open source tools to make static web development as fast as possible.
OProto is a barebones skeleton of a basic website for the purpose of bootstrapping a static website or prototype an application. OProto uses a range of web development frameworks to speed up the...
July 2010
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tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
January 2010
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And i'm all
Behavioral results of the iPhone's public design
The screen shows all sorts of messages clearly, readable from a longer distance than a normal phone due to its high resolution. To compensate for wandering eyes, we keep it around us more.
I would wager that most of the iPhone/smartphone toting public have our devices in our peripheral for a sizable percentage of the day.
June 2009
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I still listen to the radio
There is some crazy good stuff out there in streaming radio and podcast land. I think the majority of us don’t think to revisit these two technologies that failed to really keep the spotlight.
Internet radio stations were streaming music years before that little Radio tower lit up in iTunes and Pandora was still in her box. There’s still thousands of them and no good way to navigate...
February 2009
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Jumpchart just became this web designer's new best...
Good content + good markup = painless styling, candy for SEO, and highly readable and reusable code.
I process that equation when I do my work. I do a lot of markup from scratch and because I know it will produce the best results, but man can it get tedious. Jumpchat’s made it really easy now.
Here’s 3,000 words explaining its handiness, delivered as three successive screenshots....
December 2008
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Drinking Outside the Temple →
Maybe drinking during the day — much like fedoras — is experiencing a Mad Men-induced renaissance.
Or maybe its the obvious: with any recession comes a rise in alcohol consumption. Of course, this recession is a doozy.
Now, on more than one occasion in the last few months, I’ve had a couple during the workday. I didn’t overdue it and I finished up my work more or less as usual. I...
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Mom's Apple Pie
Assuming store-bought pie dough — rolled thin both for top and bottom…
Filling – actual recipe with (My notes in brackets): 6 lg Granny Smith apples (I always go for more as I like to overstuff pie especially if using deep dish pie plate, say 8-9 depending on size) Peeled and thinly sliced (6 apples = 4 cups, I would say more like 5-6 cups, again depending on dish) 1 cup white sugar (now my way...
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How to get off your iPhone (and not accidentally...
Receive one of your favorite respectable magazines in the mail.
Rip off shrink wrap. Magazines are shrink-wrapped these days because they come with lots of extra promo-pulp you didn’t ask for and don’t care about.
Discard promo-pulp. Didn’t read a word of it, did you?
Shake magazine over a recycling or trash receptacle. This will discard all the flyouts. Now these will not be...
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The iPhone is Technological Determinism at Its... →
If we can, we can and we will.
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Of Woe and Lyrics Websites
Check out these lyrics for “Live Your Life” by T.I., as transcribed by this site:
Your values is in disarrayed prioritizin’ horribly Unhappy with the riches ‘cause you’re piss-poor morally Ignorin’ all prior advice and forewarnin’ And we mighty full of ourselves all of a sudden, aren’t we?
Now, a quick note about that song. Geeks, Urban Outfitters,...
November 2008
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WatchThis guy gets it right. Keith Olbermann on gay marriage. Pure eloquence from a guy I just always thought of as another one of those talking heads.