Archive for August, 2007
"Good copywriting is part of the development process — it is not optional. It is part of good usability and accessibility." — an interesting take on how the designer-blogger should work their craft; it’s yet another how-to yes, but does it resonate in part?
"I was bored tonight and was also bored with the default wallpapers that come loaded with the iPhone so I sat down and created these 16 wallpapers." — another stylish set of iPhone backgrounds - features typography.
" Q [kju:] emulator is a feature packed Cocoa port of QEMU: Run Linux, Windows, and other systems on your Mac." — lightweight, somewhat alpha alternative to VMware Fusion or Parallels.
"Aside from being incredibly cool and an all around great guy, Brent Simmons is also the mastermind behind the sensational news reader for Mac, NetNewsWire." — fast becoming a valued read, Shaun’s interviews are well constructed - this is no exception.
".. recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the work I’ve been doing at Urban Outfitters and what ‘label’ it falls under. It’s also a question I get quite often (what do you do there if it’s not just web design?)" — concise, yet wonderfully descriptive
"The ‘Apple way’ still makes far more sense to me, especially when you see the two side-by-side showing the odd relative scaling caused by the Microsoft philosophy." — this is a real no-brainer, OS X has always had a smarter font rendering engine.
"However, if PR folk followed a few steps that I shall propose below, a considerable amount of time and energy could be spared on both ends." — good how-to advice is rare, doubly so regarding blogging, however Paul delivers a great article on the topic.
"The question I come to is: How necessary is it to display an RSS icon on a website?" — no, the question is - why are you asking irrelevant questions about RSS buttons when the topic is supposed to be Table Elements belonging to WEB 2.0!?
"The fix means that we’ve tuned Skype’s P2P core so that it can cope with simultaneous P2P network load and core size changes similar to those that occurred on August 16." — clarification? .. they should be able to handle the next patch cycle. Probably.
"This evening, through a perfectly innocent series of events, my left nipple became stuck to the inside of my freezer door." — best twitter update this week, bar none - thank you Mr Orchard.
" Validator S.A.C. (Stand Alone Complex) is a stand-alone, easy to install, version of the W3C’s HTML/XHTML Markup Validator for Mac OS X." — an offline validator, perfect for those times when the W3C validator itself is down or inaccessible.
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