August 2009
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July 2009
83 posts
corporate America will make a difference
I spent a few minutes reading Gruber’s piece from yesterday on the decline of Microsoft. As usual, John shares a bunch of great insights. But the one topic that I felt was missing was the current holding pattern of corporations who are still using older Microsoft products like Windows XP, IE6 and Office 2000/2003. I’m familiar with this mentality because I’ve lived in it for the...
“Space is good. Let your design breathe.”
– Mike Kus (via esquareda)
“We don’t believe in coming to market like Apple - high margin, high quality,...”
– Steve Ballmer speaking to TechRadar UK
Well, that says it all doesn’t it?
(via chartier)
Official Gmail Blog: Send mail from another... →
chartier:
This is excellent news. For quite some time, Gmail has allowed users to send email from alternative addresses. This usually works great, but many recipients will see “from: user@gmail, sent on behalf of your@customaddress.com.” This happens especially with some versions of Outlook, and considering that it is the most popular email client, this is a problem.
Now, Gmail allows users...
Letter to the hardworking iPhone developer
mrgan:
Dear hardworking iPhone developer,
I will not be buying your software. This is no fault of yours, so I apologize in advance.
Recent developments in the area of Apple messing with both you, the developer, and me, the customer, have soured me on this whole iPhone app nonsense. I’m sure this doesn’t come as a surprise. All the usual suspects of Mac development are either crying foul or...
“If you’re not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else. You don’t get the...”
– Seth Godin on All I Do is Work Here (via jorgeq)
“My challenge as a parent with the Internet isn’t keeping my son away from...”
– Peter Rukavina [ via Steven Garrity ]
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“Your fundamentals are what is important. Positioning, layouts, typography,...”
– Noah Stokes
rounded rectangles →
Professor Nänni is saying that rounded rectangles are literally easier on the eye. Put another way, compared to square-edged rectangles, rounded rectangles are more computationally efficient for the human brain. To me, this is a revelation. An idea that at the very least demands more investigation.
Fascinating article on the history and advantage of rounded rectangles.
[ via Lukas Mathis ]
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-26) →
Wilco (25)
The Tragically Hip (24)
The New Pornographers (13)
Coldplay (11)
The Smashing Pumpkins (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“E-mail addresses are for password recovery, unless you have a safe place for us...”
– Peter Vidani when asked why Start.io requires an email to sign up.
“If you’re not attracting the people you want to be attracting online,...”
– Seth Godin on the evolution of social norms.
“When you’re operating on the maker’s schedule, meetings are a...”
– Paul Graham on the maker’s schedule versus the manager’s schedule
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-19) →
U2 (21)
Fever Ray (14)
The Ataris (5)
Beck (5)
The Smashing Pumpkins (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“If I accepted every project or every client who wanted to employ us, our product...”
– Andy Rutledge comparing brands to commodities.
tasks graduates from Gmail Labs →
Google continues to roll out the changes in GMail. First the labels and sidebar, then the beta tag removal, and now Tasks graduate from the labs.
When I Grow Up - Fever Ray
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garage sale
stevenf:
I’ve got a lot of unused tech lying around that could really use a loving new home. But I hate the hassle of using eBay or Craigslist.
Solution: Host my own internet garage sale.
Nice idea by Steven Frank from Panic.
“The power of the Internet is not how fast we can download data, but how...”
– Kyle Baxter on Fever and community.
Pinboard - antisocial bookmarking →
New bookmarking service that focuses on minimalism.
better Vimeo embeds on Tumblr
matthewb:
Vimeo offers plenty of customisation options when embedding its player, but Tumblr’s automated code generator doesn’t respect these, overwriting them with its own defaults. To fix this, I wrote a quick jQuery function to rewrite Tumblr’s default options string for all Vimeo embeds on the current page:
$("object[data^='http://vimeo.com']").each(function() {
var vimeoCode =...
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mandy brown on reading
The kind of reading usually evoked in this complaint—either directly or indirectly—is that of the novel: reading that is all-absorbing, where the world outside the page disappears, and the one within beckons during every waking moment. This is reading on the brink of religion—a deeply blissful state that all readers aspire to, memories of which evoke a nostalgia usually reserved for a first love....
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