Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Logo Design Love has an interesting side-by-side comparison of alarmingly similar corporate (and project) logos.
It’s becoming more and more difficult to execute original logo designs. No matter how clever your idea, the chances are someone has created a very similar logo. Why is that?
Posted in Design |
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
2007 - "Apple's line about 3G draining battery is just an excuse."
2008 - "The iPhone 3G's battery life is terrible."
2007 - "Web apps? That's stupid."
2008 - "I installed a bunch of apps and now my phone is all flaky."
2007 - "If only Apple would release an iPhone SDK, developers could ...
Posted in Apple |
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
From AppleInsider:
"Windows Vista has fewer than half the security vulnerabilities of Windows XP," Microsoft said. "It's also 60% less likely to be infected by spyware or malware than Windows XP SP2. And in early 2008, Windows Vista was shown to have 89% fewer vulnerabilities than MacOS X 10.5, making it ...
Posted in Apple, Business |
Monday, July 21st, 2008
Here, my first attempt at writing ((Yes, this was all written and edited on my iPhone)) using the WordPress iPhone app. Really it just makes me long for Bluetooth keyboard support. Especially because all special formatting is done with raw HTML (no WYSIWYG editor).
The edit interface is nice ...
Posted in Apple, Web |
Monday, July 21st, 2008
Danielle Cassley,one of Aurora Feint's creators, trying to clear the air on what the game is doing with your phone's contact list:
The text associated with the community features says “Supply your phone number and email to automatically locate your friends!”. We assumed people would guess that meant we used their ...
Posted in Business, Social, Technology |
Monday, July 21st, 2008
Tilt-shifted photography.
Believe it or not, all of these photos are of real life-size locations or objects. The technique of tilt-shift miniature faking makes the life-sized look like a miniature scale model.
(Via n0s0ap)
Posted in Photography |
Monday, July 21st, 2008
Jack Shedd, giving advice to, it would seem, himself:
There are only three requirements I’ve ever sussed out from reading excellent sites. Write well, write often, and write with passion. It seems if you can manage that, you’ll find an audience.
Jack voices his wishes to be one of the big players ...
Posted in Web |
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
A New York Times article about Dr. Arnold "Arn" Kim's move to running MacRumors.com full-time, instead of continuing to be a doctor:
Stepping away from medicine felt somewhat strange, he admits. Dr. Kim was bringing home a six-figure income as a doctor, but he recognized that blogging was becoming more lucrative. ...
Posted in Business, Web |
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
As of last night, I am enjoying my seventh iPhone. How have I managed to go through so many?
My first iPhone was a 4GB purchased on launch day. It was given to my girlfriend when
I purchased an 8GB iPhone, which had a number of problems with the screen. Apple gave ...
Posted in Apple |
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
So this guy is running for office in Kansas and wants money. Why should you care? Perhaps because of the clever homage (or blatant ripoff) he's using to appeal to his target voting demographic. He seems like an incremental step forward, even if his campaign site does feature a photo ...
Posted in Politics |
Friday, July 18th, 2008
Act three of Dr. Horrible. Get it while it's hot.
Posted in Movies, Music |
Friday, July 18th, 2008
iPhone Alley has happy little story for anyone who hates paying for wireless at Starbucks. Why do they charge for access? When traveling for business and in need of wireless, my first objective is always to look for a local coffee shop. Sure, it may lack that gentrified familiarity we ...
Posted in Apple, Business |
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
The second chapter of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is now available. It's also on iTunes, if you prefer to pay for it.
Posted in Movies, Music |
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Pinch Media has stepped up to the plate to provide RSS feeds for the iPhone/Touch app store. One wonders why Apple didn't provide this to begin with, but after watching the feed, it becomes clear that most of the apps are crap. Then again, it did lead me to my favorite ...
Posted in Apple |
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Dave Uhlir, on the use of presence for real-time communication and head-counting during natural (and man-made) disasters.
For any user of instant messaging and other presence-enabled social applications, it is second nature to look at the presence indicators in the application to see who is online and available. This, the most ...
Posted in XMPP |