June 2011
1 post
The Bicycle Cap →
(via Jon Hicks)
September 2010
1 post
Creative Detroiters quietly rebuild, challenge... →
Last month, we traveled to Detroit with co-creator and star of the “Jackass” empire Johnny Knoxville to explore what lies gasping beneath the rubble of over-indulged industry, frighteningly embarrassing municipal mismanagement, and decades’ worth of social and economic imbalance. What we found is a burgeoning class of creative young folk intent on rebuilding their communities...
August 2010
1 post
Modernist Cuisine →
A lovely, pretentious mix of great photography and food. Pre-order now, only $500. (Don’t miss the 20 page preview)
June 2010
4 posts
Venn Diagram of the Day: FACT →
AT&T's Data Calculator →
I suppose I’m just having a difficult time averaging my “Social media posts with photos uploaded” on a daily bases. Other than that, this seems like a real bonafide tool.
Breaking News: New iPhone Display Doesn't Measure... →
Apple could not be reached for comment.
Steve Jobs Live from D8 →
Some fairly candid conversation about Flash, the iPhone prototype, and Google.
May 2010
2 posts
The New Dyson "Air Multiplier" (Balloon Not... →
I feel like this is probably what the engineers of the Dyson fan had in mind all along.
The Changing Typography of the Web →
Really terrific observation from Ellen Lupton regarding the lack of web-safe type available to designers:
“Most people walk into the room and they know it is unpleasant. They know they don’t feel good in the room, but they don’t know why. An interior designer walks into the room and says, ‘It’s the lighting.’ Typefaces work the same way.”
(via David Kaneda)
April 2010
16 posts
“New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile...”
– Steve Jobs, Thoughts on Flash
Loremify →
Loremify is a dashboard widget that copies Latin lorem ipsum text to your clipboard. The amount of text copied varies, depending on where you press the button. No more lipsum.com.
(via Pat Dryburgh)
A Tax Form for the Marginally Employed →
Special Deductions from the new Schedule BFaS tax form:
That/Which Deduction: Deduct $1 for every grammatical error in a sign or poster that you pointed out to someone else.
and
Delayed Adulthood Penalty: Multiply the number of years since your 25th birthday by the number of roommates you currently have (excluding children but including spouse) and multiply the result by $-10.
Iceland's Disruptive Volcano →
Amazing photos of the Icelandic volcano that is currently going nuts.
Well there you have it →
On Apple’s iPad case, straight from the horse’s mouth.
Textpattern Interface Case Study →
Textpattern has always been a terrific content management system save one thing: the default backend UI. These themes look terrific (as does Jon Hicks’).
(via 9-Bits)
The New CS5 Branding →
Veerle Pieters takes a look at the new branding schema used by Adobe in CS5. After taking a second look, I can appreciate the geometric/isometric approach to the new splash screens, but what is with the “three-ring binder” app icons?
CartThrob: A Shopping Cart System for... →
Last year, I spent a couple of months building an ecommerce site on top of ExpressionEngine. The extensibility of EE means it can easily handle the management of any type of content, even tangible product for sale. The project was a hard-earned success, but I think something like CartThrob would have saved me many late nights. Looks promising.
JetBlue's New Extrago Sherpa Shirt →
A pretty amazing garment for just $99. No word yet on availability.
HP's Clap-Enabled TouchSmart PC →
My favorite part of this video is how everyone using the machine is standing awkwardly at a waist-high table. Why not show them sitting at a desk like the rest of the world? Maybe it’s the ridiculous arm fatigue? I sense a whole new line of computing accessories on the way.
But in all sincerity, I’m glad someone has finally filled the space that smart phones, laptops, desktops, and...
iPhone 4 Event, April 8 →
Little birdie told me 4.0 is going to bring copy and paste and third-party apps.
Paul Thurrott's First iPad Impressions →
Also known as “Everything’s amazing and nobody’s happy.”
Schrute Farms on Trip Advisor →
I loved my stay at Schrute’s Farm. The only problem was the red ring around the inside of the toilet bowl. Is beet color water soluble?
(via kottke)
iPad-Ready Websites →
Apple:
Is your site taking advantage of the latest web standards?
HTML5 Video == iPad ready, apparently.
iPad is Pure Innovation →
Andy Ihnatko:
The hardware we’ve seen in years past, (and what we’re likely to see in these Android devices) are laptop computers with the keyboard section broken off. They’re not fundamentally touch-based computers, they’re the products of old thinking. When Apple looks at a fingertip, they see a warm, living thing that can feel. They don’t see a poor substitute for a mouse.
March 2010
25 posts
Apple Posts Guided Tours for the iPad →
Wow. But, iPad aside, the production quality of these videos is great. I really enjoy the “static” titles.
“From 30,000 feet, creating looks like art. From ground level, it’s a to-do list.”
– Ben Arment (via Joshua Blankenship)
The LOST Opening Titles à la Saul Bass →
We all know the LOST title card is a pixelated piece of garbage. What this video presupposes is—maybe it’s not?
The ObamaCare Writedowns →
From the WSJ:
On top of AT&T’s $1 billion, the writedown wave so far includes Deere & Co., $150 million; Caterpillar, $100 million; AK Steel, $31 million; 3M, $90 million; and Valero Energy, up to $20 million. Verizon has also warned its employees about its new higher health-care costs, and there will be many more in the coming days and weeks.
Change, indeed.
Newsweek hates, then loves, the iPad →
The best quip from Phillip Elmer-DeWitt’s CNN article:
Lyons is better known in tech circles — and probably better read — as the formerly-anonymous author of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.
To be fair, Lyons acknowledges his unfounded cynicism in the original video and the follow up “flip-flop” article:
Yet my first thought, as I watched Jobs run through his demo, was that it...
Steve Jobs Discusses Working with Paul Rand in... →
Steve Jobs on Paul Rand:
I asked him if he would come up with a few options and he said “No, I will solve your problem for you and you will pay me. You don’t have to use the solution. If you want options go talk to other people. I’ll solve your problem for you the best way I know how, and you use it or not—that’s up to you, you’re the client—but you pay me.” ...
“37signals runs entirely without debt, which is apparently so uncommon that we...”
– David Heinemeier Hansson, Profits = Freedom
Uniform: Sexy Forms with jQuery →
It’s like lingerie for your web forms. But better than that, it will let you replace all the fugly Firefox form controls.
Preview: Instapaper on iPad →
If the iPad is a great consumption device, it’s about to get even more consumptionary.
(via Shawn Blanc)
Palm: This is your survival guide →
Joshua Topolsky:
Oh Palm. Just a little over a year ago your future seemed so bright, so renewed. You walked away from CES 2009 reborn, held aloft by a completely innovative new mobile operating system, a striking piece of hardware, and a feeling amongst the press and investors that you were back in the game and playing to win. Now, less than a year and a half later, you’ve nearly returned...
Create, Share, and Play Presentations on Your... →
Keypoint is an iPhone app built in using jQTouch, and made native using the PhoneGap framework. One of the finest examples of a web app made native that I’ve seen.
(via jQTouch)
Amazon Releases Kindle for Mac →
I think I speak for everyone when I say “Wow… This is one ugly piece of crap.”
IE9 Scores a 55 out of 100 on the ACID3 Test →
Congrats to the IE team, whose diligent efforts have payed off in spades. I’ll be sure to bill you directly for all my IE9 troubleshooting hours.
What if Twitter... came to life? →
We asked some of our friends to film their favorite tweets. We didn’t care how they did it. They could read it. They could act it. They could do it with puppets. Whatever they wanted. The only rules were it had to be a tweet written by someone else and it had to contain the entire tweet and nothing but the tweet. This is what they gave us.
(via lonelysandwich)
Apple Updates iWork.com Beta →
Among these are public sharing of documents (share with anyone via a public URL), and a “refined user interface”. iWork.com is a great niche tool, but I really don’t see how they plan on monetizing this in the future.
Tough, Cheeky, and Sweet. Four Techniques for... →
What do a neoclassical modern, a suave sans serif, and a sporty slab have in common? All are meditations on precision, though each has a different texture.
H&FJ’s fictional type specimens are routinely more attractive than most of the paid print work I see. Somehow they have a special knack for using type.
(via @45royale)
Code Snippets for iPhone Websites →
A handful of useful code snippets for creating both iPhone friendly and iPhone optimized websites. Worth the bookmark if only to have these all in one place.
(via @45royale)
Zeldman's IE9 Preview →
On the other hand, Microsoft’s refusal to switch to Webkit gives Apple and Google a competitive advantage, and that is good because a web in which one browser has a monopoly stifles standards and innovation alike. By torturing the IE rendering engine every couple of years instead of putting it out of its misery, Microsoft contributes to the withering away of its own monopoly. That might not be...
iPad Application Design →
Matt Gemmell’s detailed look at a number of the new interaction models on the iPad.
By releasing the iWork suite on the iPad on day one, Apple has done two crucial things. First, they’ve set a pricing expectations for both developers and consumers. I would guess some developers are immediately turned-off by prospect of being able to charge no more than 99 cents for their app. Apple is...
WordPress vs. ExpressionEngine: Apples and... →
Yes.
Apple's iPhone 4.0 software to deliver... →
If the primary issue with multitasking has been performance, my guess is Apple will be producing it’s own processors for all subsequent iPhones—just like they produced the A4 for the iPad.
“I made Mint while I was working full-time at another company; I made it in the...”
– Shaun Inman, The Pipeline Episode 5
The Future of Web Type is Yesterday →
The web has waited long enough for professional alternatives to the same old fonts. It’s time for Web FontFonts.
—@FontShop
It’s hard to get excited about any font-embedding solution that costs hundreds of dollars in addition to what you pay for the desktop license. Even worse, the licensing fees are based on monthly page views.
The whole situation is reminiscent of The New York Times and...
“I never, ever talk about educating the client. I hate that phrase; I just hate...”
– Michael Bierut
52 Weeks of UX →
A discourse on the process of designing for real people. Brilliant site with thoughtful essays.