March 2009
21 posts
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Goodbye Google →
Douglas Bowman, Visual Design Lead at Google: Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can’t operate in an environment like that. I’ve grown tired of debating such miniscule...
Mar 21st
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Mar 20th
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Mar 16th
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“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be...”
– Einstein
Mar 15th
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Torus: a game using simply HTML 5's canvas →
It’s incredible to see a fully-functional tetris-like game, written entirely using HTML 5’s canvas. If you don’t think this is awesome, compare this to a flash game while Activity Monitor’s open.
Mar 15th
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“There’s not a single business model, and there’s not a single type...”
– Tim O’Reilly
Mar 15th
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PeepCode's REST for Rails 2 Screencast →
I’d highly recommend this screencast to anyone who is learning how to develop Ruby on Rails web applications. While it doesn’t explain the absolute basics of Rails, it does a very thorough job at explaining the concept of REST.
Mar 15th
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Please Fix the iPhone →
I wonder how many of these most wanted features will be implemented into the iPhone 3.0 software. I’m really hoping for multi-tasking, copy and paste, wireless sync, basic flash support, and a better way to manage applications. How about you?
Mar 15th
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WatchWatch
— David Merrill, demonstrating Siftables at TED 2009.
Mar 15th
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Best Buy is one of those companies that I frequently find myself giving business to, but yet, I also frequently despise them. However, they really seem to be onto something amazing with their Remix APIs. Today at SXSW Best Buy officially made their Remix APIs public (US-only, not Canada, unfortunately). Their Remix APIs essentially allow developers to lookup product info, prices, availability,...
Mar 14th
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Mar 14th
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'If your business disappeared tomorrow, would... →
Mar 9th
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“The beauty of Twitter is that you don’t have to commit to it; no one...”
– Julia Angwin
Mar 7th
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Mar 5th
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I have a problem with Pages. I save things excessively. Just ask anyone who I share a Dropbox folder with. After I finish a paragraph, a table, or am ready to print, I hit save. Always. Whenever I print a document out of Pages, its save state will always change to the you-have-something-you-need-to-save state. Every. Single. Time. Now, back to homework.
Mar 5th
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Mar 4th
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Readability →
jorgeq: A simple browser bookmarklet that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading. Customization includes text size, style and margin. Extremely effective and a must have resource.
Mar 4th
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staff: Now you can flip between Dashboard pages with the left (←) and right (→) arrow keys.  This is great if you’re trying to navigate the Dashboard with a sandwich in one hand. Unrelated: I’m eating a sandwich right now.
Mar 3rd
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“Depending on what you’re doing, making your site work in IE can range from a...”
– Marco.org: Dropped IE support for Instapaper
Mar 3rd
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Mar 3rd
Facebox 1.2 →
Mar 3rd
February 2009
32 posts
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Dropbox's Brilliant Referral System →
The Dropbox team continues to impress me with their brilliance. A couple of days ago they came out with a referral program that gives each user (the inviter and the invitee) an extra 250MB (or 500MB if you’re a premium member). A referral isn’t just a signup though, it’s an installation. The invitee has to actually install Dropbox onto their system, and be from a different IP...
Feb 28th
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“If you need to go back and update your headline with “(Confirmed)”, you’re doing...”
– Alex Payne
Feb 28th
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“You can have the most usable site in the world but if it doesn’t provide a...”
– 37signals
Feb 27th
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“Most people can’t even figure out how to program their VCR. So how are...”
– 37signals
Feb 27th
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Feb 27th
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Feb 27th
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“Our main goal at Facebook is to help make the world more open and transparent.”
– Mark Zuckerberg (via marco)
Feb 27th
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“Keeping a lid on stupidity is harder, perhaps because stupidity is not so easily...”
– Paul Graham, in What I’ve Learned from Hacker News
Feb 26th
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Sebastiaan de With: Safari 4 UI Breakdown →
Feb 25th
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nikf: I don’t mind the use of a spinner to show things (like the resolving of a domain - god knows that can be an issue on slower connections), but the notion that I’m going to sit here and wait whilst Safari tells me “Hey, I’m doing shit right now. Wait a bit and you’ll get some pages shown, K?” is just wrong. I couldn’t agree more.
Feb 24th
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Safari 4 Hidden Preferences →
I’m going to give Safari 4’s default interface a try for a week or so (and I recommend you do the same), but I’m afraid I might end going back to the old tab style after that. :(
Feb 24th
How To Connect With the FriendFeed Community →
Feb 24th
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Canadians can read your mind. →
“A team of researchers from the University of Toronto has developed a brain-scanning headset that can detect a person’s preferences, with an accuracy of 80%. The headset is fitted with fibre-optic cables that emit infrared light at around the same frequency as a typical TV remote control.”
Feb 24th
Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have... →
Feb 24th
pixelbreaker's PolarClock Screensaver →
Feb 24th
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
“Startups are fragile plants—seedlings, in fact. These seedlings are worth...”
– Paul Graham
Feb 23rd
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“We have enough web traffic alone that we could probably pay the bills by putting...”
– Evan Williams, on an advertising-free approach to a business that makes money.
Feb 22nd
C-SPAN: Future of the Internet →
An hour and a half interview with Evan Williams (CEO of Twitter).
Feb 22nd
Safari140 - Twitter extension for Safari →
Feb 22nd
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20 Ways to Increase The Life of Your Laptop's... →
Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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The *Real* Top 20 Twitter Applications →
I’m very surprised to see how far down the list Tweetie is.
Feb 21st
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Recked: A Night of Recommendation Technologies →
Feb 21st
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The Myth of Talent →
Michael Mistretta: Becoming good at something takes a lot more than just talent. It takes hard work — pure, unbiased, hard work. Pressing on, day after day. Pulling your hair out in frustration, night after night. It’s definitely much easier to believe in luck, instead of actually having to put hard work, time, and effort into something.
Feb 21st
Twitter Sourcerer →
Feb 20th
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“If you want to do great work, focus on one thing at a time. Finish it and move...”
– Jason Fried (via carpeaqua)
Feb 20th
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WatchWatch
Yet another brilliant video by The Onion, starring Sony’s new piece of shit that doesn’t fucking work.
Feb 19th