January 2009
38 posts
inessential.com: New publishing system / tour of... →
awesome - this guy gets it. Locally run CMS that pushes to a remote server. What’s not to love?
iPhone Software Update Breaks 3G Unlock →
exactly why I’m not interested in jailbraking my iPhone… who wants to wait for updates from 3rd party hackers?
Top Secret information found: Apple working on a... →
THIS JUST IN: APPLE WORKING ON A NEW MODEL OF A PRODUCT!!! Hold the iPhone!! Apple are working on a new model? Can it be? Stop the presses!
iLife Tip: Enable Multi-Touch maps in iPhoto '09 →
If anyone else out there was bothered by this, here’s the fix. Maps with more multitouch!
iTunes Plus upgrades go a la carte | Macworld →
good news for those of us who wanted to upgrade some, but not all, our purchases to the new DRM-free/256kbps standard
AppleInsider | iDVD hung out to dry as Apple... →
…in other words, next year when all MacBooks drop the optical drive, iLife will similarly drop iDVD altogether.
Adobe UI Gripes →
An entire weblog of why CS4 is a ripoff and I won’t be installing it anytime soon… hilarious!
Daring Fireball Linked List: ClickToFlash Is Dead;... →
Possibly the most useful browser plugin ever â blocks all flash content from auto-loading, a simple click allows flash content to load, now with whitelisting capabilities. This just keeps getting…
WD introduces 2 terabyte hard drive | Macworld →
A new hope for my iTunes Library: they finally broke the 1GB drive barrier. Now let’s just hope the prices come down so I can afford 2x for my RAID.
Power of WordPress and jQuery: 30+ Great Plugins →
jQuery is ideal because it can create impressive animations and interactions while being simple to understand and easy to use. WordPress awesomeness lies in its fact that it can be customized to…
Liveblogging the Lost season five premiere →
almost better than the show itself
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - Errol Morris Blog -... →
Bush in pictures, a retrospective by the photographers who captured a Presidency in course.
Obama Freezes Salaries Of White House Employees →
President Barack Obama announced on his first day in office Wednesday that he is freezing the pay of the about a hundred White House employees who make over $100,000 a year.
The Ten Greatest Lost WTF-isms →
Season five of Lost premieres tonight after an eternally long wait, and I wanted to take a look back at the long road of WTF that it took to get to where we are. Some of these moments’ mysteries have…
Dear World, We're Back! Love U.S.A →
The First Battle of Monte Cassino - January 1944 →
Private Albert Leonard Stephens @ Cassino
Maddy's Ramblings: The tale of Monte Cassino →
More information about Cassino
President George W. Bush 2001 Inaugural Address... →
@ [04:02] “This is my solemn pledge, I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity.” Consider the job done. Thanks. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Washington awakens with inauguration buzz -... →
I shudder to think who might have been invited to perform at a McCain/Palin inauguration concert…
BBC - WW2 People's War - HK Dimoline and the... →
Great overview of the Battle of Cassino
Why quality photos play a vital role in every good... →
via Dane County Real Estate Blog
www. is deprecated. →
Why do people still insist on using the “www” prefix? It’s like doggedly typing “http://” before every web address (although I’ve seen people do that too). It’s 2009, not 1991.
Request For Proposal →
Beautiful RFP generator. Every business needs this. Amazing.
www.www.extra-www.org →
For those of you who still insist on adding “www” whenever using a web address, I insist you add two. That is, “w-w-w-dot-w-w-w-dot-yourdomain”. Thanks.
Ten Unavoidable Reasons to Start a New Web Project →
via [ Astuteo⢠| The Free Advice Blog ]
Web Development Project Estimator →
simple, effective â someone should make this for every business.
Earth, observed - The Big Picture - Boston.com →
photos of earth
What your hard drive will look like in five years... →
I think the next biggest change to Apple’s laptops will be the removal of the built-in optical drive, and removable storage in favor of a thinner form factor and non-removable SSD. You’ll buy your MacBook BTO like your iPod, with a fixed storage configuration.
AppleInsider | Apple rumored to adopt NVIDIA's Ion... →
This is potentially brilliant: increase the GPU power, decrease the CPU power, and average the difference with an OS that can distribute the load more evenly across the hardware. Result: same performance with a smaller power footprint. If they make the new mini the size of 2 stacked iPods, I’m in!
I have a very bad feeling about this (PIC) →
You don’t want this guy’s road rage.
Will Smith solves Rubik's Cube in 55 seconds →
Chipotle's Mobile Ordering App For Magic iPhone... →
Chipotle Mobile Ordering builds upon their already substantial online ordering system by allowing iPhone and iPod Touch owners to find locations, customize their orders, save their favorites and pay…
PHP for Beginners: Building Your First Simple CMS →
Tips, Tricks, and Techniques on using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
High-Resolution Grungy Paper Textures →
With textured and organic designs a current design trend, it useful to provide some high-resolution grungy paper textures. In this texture pack, you will find 6 large-scale, high-resolution (2592 x…
10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques →
More and more applications these days are migrating to the Web. Without platform constraints or installation requirements, the software-as-a-service model looks very attractive.
iPhone nano still enroute, but not for US? →
When they figure out how to cram the cpu, 3.5” screen, battery, wireless and telephony components into an object smaller than an iPhone, page me.
'I Shipped All That Shit Off to Stanford' →
via Daring Fireball Linked List