Archive for September, 2007
"Great work from Brad Choate and Walt Dickinson at Six Apart. I’m upgrading to MT 4 just for this." — although a little iphone fixated, Gruber does have a point - managing content on the go is a massively cool thing.
There is something about
Tumblr that has me deeply involved in a love-hate tryst. Absolute hate and love with the strongest of passions.
It’s utter and total simplicity makes virtually every other blog platform I’ve ever looked at, or tried1 feel like trying to work out the mathematics to form a wormhole in space-and-time by comparison.
Take […]
I’ve
been playing this evening. A re-design1 on the tumblr platform — holy father, doesn’t
Garamond look downright gorgeous on the mac?!
Even the sub-par Windows font rendering engine does OK at the slightly larger font sizing2 I’ve selected. If you’re a Microsoft bunny and don’t have Garmond, then you should be ashamed3 and go get […]
"I’ve been using it [sig2feed] for my Secret Links feature, which only people who subscribe to my RSS feed can see." — a creative and smart use of my RSS Signature plugin.
"I got, like, billions of emails from iPhone customers who are pissed off. After reading every one of these emails - well, most of them, anyway - I’ve got some things to say." — a light-hearted response to Job’s recent open-letter.
"It’s been more than a few years that we’ve been thinking about how typefaces are made, how designers use them, and how readers experience them, and today’s typography.com is designed to present the complete picture." — typography, stat.
"We want to do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers. We apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of Apple." — an open letter from Mr Jobs, with a rare offer in the current market.
"In a "Where’s Wally?" five minute run-down, lets break out the changes that I’ve discovered so far." — Google has applied some fresh new looks and updated navigational features in it’s web based reader app.
"After two months of paternity leave and mostly not posting, I’m resuming work on kottke.org today." — you’ve been missed sir, welcome back.
There is something I have been listening to of late that is entirely reminiscent of the early days of podcasting, before it became the “new voice of radio” complete with corny jingles, endlessly long intros, fast talkers with wares to sell and the production values of a top-notch recording studio.
The Talk Show, featuring roughly thirty […]
"Love your shiny new iphone, but sick of tangling up that darn cord on your earbuds? Grab an old credit card and a pair of scissors. Boom! You are about to solve one of life’s least important problems." — via dave slusher, clutter free cord storage.
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