July 2008
9 posts
I’ve stopped importing my feed into Tumblr. Just so you know.
It was time.
Every Design-Related Job Classified Today →
Don’t even think about applying if you don’t have an online portfolio. Better yet, put your Mac on ebay and hand in your Chuck Taylors and your box frames. You’re done buddy.
Tell me how you…
Informal Review of iPhone Radio Applications on... →
We take our dog on daily walks so she can eliminate outside of our apartment. Mishka, our dog, was adopted by us a month ago. I’ve had to expand my music library and podcast subscriptions to listen…
Instapaper for iPhone →
Marco Arment’s Instapaper application for the iPhone is available at the App Store. Instapaper is an easy service to catalogue articles (or web pages) for later reading.
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Quick Reviews by Garrett Murray →
Short and sweet video reviews by the prolific Garrett Murray. My favorite is the 10 second sunburn review.
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500 iPhone Apps, but why these? →
It’s kinda sad that Apple didn’t filter out the crappy 30-minute-I’m-learning-Cocoa exercises. Apple obviously wanted to hit a big number for launch (500) but why not pick more useful and polished…
Ok, so here's the scoop on the iPhone news today: →
Ok, so here’s the scoop on the iPhone news today:
The AppStore is online
iTunes 7.7 was released
You can download and install the iPhone 2.0 update before it’s officially released
Apple has…
App Store will be live at 9am on July 10th →
Tomorrow morning. Hopefully Apple will release the 2.0 software for current iPhone users before, or when, it launches.
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Shortwave →
A javascript bookmarklet by Shaun Inman, of Mint fame (and soon, Fever). Shortwave quickly searches various web services like Wikipedia, Google and IMDB. For instance, activate Shortwave, type…
June 2008
19 posts
The day we start think about what the audience... →
The day we start think about what the audience wants is the day we’re going to start making bad choices.
Andrew Stanton, quoted from The Pixar Blog’s excerpts of a roundtable discussion about…
Verizon CEO: “Steve Jobs will get old.” →
Verizon’s CEO, Ivan Seidenberg is of the opinion that Steve Jobs will, indeed, age over time. Immediately after hearing this, I rushed over to Wikipedia to research this topic of “getting old” and I…
Wall•E →
You don’t need me to tell you what a great film this is. Go and see it.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5.
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Menubar SSB With Fluid →
Genius. Fluid spoofs the user agent of the iPhone to access the iPhone version of any website, and has the ability to make it into a menu-bar drop-down deal. Just one thing: why is the resize…
Evernote On The Mac →
Note-taking application/web-service Evernote has been getting a lot of attention recently, and well deserved. It’s a cross-platform, web and desktop, note storage and search application. Ambitious…
Neave Television →
TV clips completely random and out of context. I almost broke my funny bone watching this clip mash-up of 2001: A Space Odyssey and what I believe is a strange british comedy TV show.
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Vertigo Theme for Tumblr →
Matthew Buchanan designed a fantastic theme for blogging service Tumblr based on the design work of Saul Bass.
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Five undisclosed features of Apple's Snow Leopard →
For an OS X update that supposedly has no new features, Snow Leopard has a lot of desirable new features.
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Martian Skies →
Alan Taylor collects over a dozen photos of the Martian landscape and atmosphere, each one remarkable and surreal. Coincidentally, Andy Baio just interviewed Alan Taylor about Big Picture, which…
Do-It-Yourself Yahoo Resignation Letter →
Hard to resist kicking them when they’re down.
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Maemo.org logo contest submissions →
Maemo.org is the community website for a Linux-based OS that runs on the Nokia Internet Tablets (which is as confusing and complicated for consumer as other Linux-based distributions, without a…
FedEx to Kill Kinko’s Brand →
In recent times, the brand has been known not for their conveniences and know-how, but for slacker staff, long turnaround times, and sky-high prices. $2 for a single sheet of colour printing?…
Bullit NetNewsWire style →
Bullit is the style I developed to read my RSS feeds on NetNewsWire. Clarity and readability were the most important factors. Bullit uses 70% (and up to 700px) width for the reading column….
Why there’s no Flash on iPhone 2.0 →
Great article on the absence of Flash from the iPhone by an entity only referred to as “Kontra”.
In this quote, he/she/it explains the obvious, but rarely…
Read more …
Safari Not Created to Promote Openness, Innovation... →
Earlier today Mozilla launched the third major version of Firefox, after being unavailable for almost half of their much…
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Half The Price, A Little Less Value →
Half The Price, A Little Less Value Brett Peters, on the new updated iPhone 3G plan with AT&T: The iPhone 3G is heralded as ‘twice as faster, but half the price.’ And the initial price had,…
iPhone Widgets →
In the most recent Talk Show, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin speculate that it would be interesting if Apple releases a tool to create widgets for the iPhone. That’s funny because Apple already has…
Blue Flavor Doesn't Skip Photoshop Mockups →
Blue Flavor Doesn’t Skip Photoshop Mockups Jeff Croft’s great write up in response to 37signal’s unconventional position against Photoshop mockups. Jeff has three major points, including an…
37signals Eschews Photoshop Web Design Mockups →
They make a good point for in-house web design teams. If your whole team can actively collaborate and are all proficient in HTML/CSS then I imagine…
May 2008
1 post
Times, A New RSS Reader for the Mac →
Times, A New RSS Reader for the Mac Times is a minimal feed reader for OS X Leopard. It uses a strong “newspaper” metaphor, and a lot of animated UI with OS X’s Core Animation. By the way, I’m…
April 2008
11 posts
I'm on vacation ... →
I’m on vacation for three weeks from April 28th to May 19th. I’ll be in France with no internet access.
See you in 21 days.
How to make a proper iPhone WebClip icon →
Jürgen Siebert of Fontblog and Magnus of studio adhoc tested many sizes to create a pixel-perfect iPhone WebClip icon with no scaling or stretching…
Lonelysandwich →
Adam Lisagor just flipped the switch for the new lonelysandwich design.
I built it, but the idea was Adam’s: it’s crazy and brilliant at the same time, just what you’d except from…
Read more at cameron i/o …
This is why we love Microsoft →
I’m reminded of “you can’t please everyone, so please people with good taste”, which is obviously not a phrase they use at Microsoft.
Flickr Video Protests, Or, There's Chocolate in My... →
Flickr recently introduced videos on Flickr; up to 90 seconds each, and with video creation restricted to Pro users.
However, there’s a vocal, suitably large amount of Flickr users basically saying…
Comments are to communication what bathroom stalls... →
Comments are to communication what bathroom stalls are to art or poetry.
Dan, commenting on Steven Frank’s custom blogging engine, which Steven decided to make comment-free.
Disney and Pixar Announce Animated Line-Up Through... →
FirstShowing.net has a good wrap-up of the announcement today from Disney and Pixar. Overall looks good, but I can tell you now, Cars does…
Adobe Media Player →
Adobe’s video player application, right on the heels of another Flash-based application, Photoshop Express. Interestingly enough, Adobe Media Player runs on your desktop with…
Video on Flickr →
Video on Flickr Flickr is introducing video support today. Sadly, it’s only for Pro users (for uploading; everyone can view videos). Also: 90 seconds limitation. No long videos. TechCrunch has…
Rogue Amoeba video demo of RadioShift Touch →
Interesting to see the fruits of iPhone native application development outside of the handful Apple showed off at their March 6th event.
Icon Resource →
Icon Resource Sebastiaan de With has launched an icon training resource; screencasts specifically geared towards icon designers. There’s two sets: Theory and Techniques, the later of which…
Your Twitter is not your blog is not your Tumblr... →
Justin Williams takes a critical eye to the annoying trend of cross-posting across various web services. I’m inclined to agree.
March 2008
17 posts
Wowio →
Wowio With the advent of easy file distribution and “pirating”, media publishers and distributors are somewhat in a panic; the RIAA and MPAA are resorted to suing and legal action against a small…
Asaph Beta →
A new tumblelog-style blogging engine. The self-install type. Very cool bookmarklet; watch the video to see why it’s worth using.
Via John Gruber.
There Will Be Vader →
There Will Be Vader Hilarious mash-up video of There Will Be Blood and Star Wars. Daniel Plainview as Darth Vader.
Steven Frank: The First, The Free, and the Good →
Steven Frank: The First, The Free, and the Good Good analysis by Steven Frank of Panic about the iPhone SDK, and the upcoming App Store. There’s a widely held (but mistaken) belief that, for…
Steve Jobs interview on Paul Rand →
Money quote:
I asked him if he’d come up with a few options. And he said “No, I will solve your problem for you. And you will pay mm.”
dalasverdugo:
Reblog this if you think we should have a Portland Tumblr meetup. I’m wondering how many of us there are.
Yes.
Museo →
A great new font from Jos Buivenga who also created Delicious, used in my header.
iPhone Atlas: iPhone SDK updates Dashcode,... →
Apple snuck in an update to Dashcode in the iPhone SDK, with new templates for iPhone web applications. You can test them in…
iPhone SDK beta observations →
You probably heard about the iPhone SDK already, I’m not going to bore you with the information everyone already knows. There’s news sites for that. I downloaded the iPhone SDK beta, and I’m going…
