July 2010
3 posts
AppleInsider | SproutCore founder leaves Apple to... →
The plot thickens…
AppleInsider | Apple's iPhone 4 Retina Display... →
In their bundled software however, only the iPhone 4 actually displays 24-bit color. Android’s photo application is crippled to only support 16-bit color, reducing the Motorola Droid X to the same performance as the Incredible and EVO, expressing color banding and jaggies due to their significantly lower color resolution.
Interesting article revealing Apple choosing performance over...
June 2010
11 posts
David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at... →
“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest...”
– Paul Rand (via mysweetinspiration)
Interview with Steve Jobs in WIRED Magazine, April... →
iA » WIRED on iPad: Just like a Paper Tiger… →
May 2010
15 posts
AIR Link Report visualizer | kahunaburger →
for anyone still building Flash apps
BS Alert →
Britney’s got a page on her site that calls out fabricated stories about her. Love it. Everyone should do this and put the rags out of business.
The Open Fallacy - Dmitry Fadeyev
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The popularity of [iPad] does not make it some sort of public utility where you get to have your say. It’s not. It’s a private commercial good, and the design decisions for it are all up to Apple, and nobody else. Coercing Apple to yield to your desires under the disguise of ethics is itself immoral, they are free to do as they choose.
Fancybox - Fancy lightbox alternative →
yet another lightbox alternative, this one looks pretty sweet!
This is how Apple rolls | Macworld →
Apple has released many new products over the last decade. Only a handful have been the start of a new platform. The rest were iterations. The designers and engineers at Apple aren’t magicians; they’re artisans
Right on.
3 tags
Up In The Air (2009): ★★★★★
rent on iTunes
Location, Location, Location: Google Latitude Has... →
Love the comments:
6. david wrote on May 6, 2010
me and my girl use it cuz we have trust issues
4 tags
Brad Bird Confirmed To Direct M:I4 →
Director of Ratatouille and The Incredibles locked in to direct the next Mission Impossible.
WatchKen Robinson on education & creativity | Video on TED.com
Fast User Switch trigger for Snow Leopard →
I used to use WinSwitch for Fast User Switching, mainly the keyboard shortcut for the login window, when I wanted to “lock” my computer (eg. stepping away from it for a while). It had the added benefit of reducing menu space by replacing my User account name with an icon.
Using Services in 10.6, it’s not necessary to even display the User menu at all, since the login window can...
April 2010
35 posts
Avatar Audio Posters →
Thoughts on Flash (Steve Jobs) →
In the words of Lightning McQueen, “Ka-chow!”
The Industrialization of Traffic: Why Bicycles are... →
Microsoft says Android infringes on its patents,... →
Exploring the Complexities of Nerdiness, for... →
Mr. Prady started reminiscing about people he had known during his own days as a computer programmer in New York, like the guy who could do complicated mathematical conversions in his head, but could not figure out the tip in a restaurant, because he did not know how to quantify “service.”
Whilst I know “The Big Bang Theory” series is not particularly original, and embodies a lot of...
Calmness, curation, cat porn: Dave Eggers’ joys of... →
Simplicity isn't that simple
52weeksofux:
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” —Leonardo Da Vinci
Simplicity, by definition, is freedom from complexity; the absence of luxury or pretentiousness. Sophistication, on the other hand, often implies a sense of style, cultivated beauty and refinement. So is Da Vinci contradicting himself here?
On the contrary. I believe the ultimate level of sophistication happens when...
Transmit 4.0 →
Available today.
Typekit: Goodbye sIFR, Cufon? →
Good examples of different rendering results across browsers when using TypeKit.
“Life is hard if you live it the easy way; easy if you live it the hard way.”
– Joe Polish
Contact-Pop →
Contact Form Overlays with a Simple jQuery Plugin via Jon Raasch’s Blog
Get a Feedback Loop and Listen to It →
Used properly, playtesting does not tell you what to do, so much as it tells you what you have in front of you. It shines a light into the possibility space of the game– a light of a different color or from a different angle than you are used to, one that makes possible a better understanding of its true shape. In this sense, a game designer’s artistry is not thwarted by the playtest. The artistry...
Kill Flash Cookies- Simple Software →
KFC will delete all the Flash cookies. The Flash Player allows web sites to set cookies called Local Shared Objects or LSO’s. LSO’s are capable of storing information for an indefinite amount of time, and unlike normal cookies they are not erased when you clear your browsing data. All the information in those cookies will remain accessible until they’re removed by the issuing website, or by you...
Adobe slips mobile Flash Player 10.1 to second... →
The fact that more than half of the world’s mobile web traffic is originating on devices running Apple’s iPhone OS also means that Adobe won’t gain more than a minority share of the mobile market even once it actually ships its first functional version of Flash for mobiles.
In case anyone was still hoping that their Flash skills would still be relevant in 3 years, sorry to break...
“There’s no good culture without bad taste”
– Jean-Louis Gassée
