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Strategies range from simple to the complex
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Final step: buy an iPhone.
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Sony’s answer to the iPod might be a dancing egg-shaped device.
Month: September 2007
links for 2007-09-07
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“The product vision part is easy. Not only does Steve Jobs push these products out without apparent effort, he couldn’t make himself not do it if he tried. It’s an obsession. So he puts the real sweat into managing and marketing and occasionally beating up on anyone who gets too close.”
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Convert links to slides and even comment on elements of a Web page.
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A collection of examples, tips and plugins about transforming WordPress into a CMS.
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A screen capture of the new Amazon.com look.
links for 2007-09-06
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“CoScripter is a system for recording, automating, and sharing processes performed in a web browser.”
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If Photoshop is out of your reach, give GIMP a try.
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Steve Jobs announces the replacement of the iPod line, including a stripped down iPhone called the iPod Touch. Oh, and the iPhone went done in price by $200.
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The iPhone without the phone, camera, or email built in. While I would love one, I’ll hope and wait till a third party developer builds a microphone for it so I can make Skype or Vonage calls with it.
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The creator and Googler demos his Quicksilver application. About time, I say. Maybe now I can use the software for something other than a simple program launcher.
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An interesting take on cyberscape. I’m not sold on AIR, though. However, I am using it in a current project, but only to get around a limitation of the browser, not because it’s hawt.
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Because you never know when you will need them.
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A nice collection of resources for Web-based typography.
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One my favorite editors is hosting a month long, online discussion on Women in Technology at O’Reilly.
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Radical honesty or, what I like to term, not giving a flying pig what others think.
Suspicious Death Scene Under Investigation
A new design blog, A Brief Message, launched today. Keeping guest editorials to under 200 words, the blog is aimed at featuring deep thoughts about design-related issues from people of all walks of life.
The site design itself is a lovely piece of work by Khoi Vinh and, under the editorial direction of Liz Danzico, can only grow to be a success. I will be checking regularly.
However, I laugh at the opening editorial which touches on the point that print is dead by way of David Carson’s book, The End of Print. As my friend, Katrina, said the concept of print being dead is “very bourgeois”.
Print is not dying. It’s simply becoming more special than it has been in generations. In the age of instant swapping of MP3s and movies, the entertainment industry is looking for value-added products.
For example, U2 released a collector’s edition of their latest albium that included a small, limited edition book to get die-hard fans to buy one or more versions of the album.
If print is dead or dying, the site’s design is proof enough that print design will live on in other media. The site, while looking very sharp, has roots in print design.
Take a gander at the design elements: grid layouts, short column widths, text wrapping, typefaces other than Georgia or Times, and so on. It oozes non-interactive style.
Also, if you resize the fonts of the browser, you will notice that the design of the site shows doesn’t shore up the design integrity when the browser’s default text is resize. As the text enlarges, it overlaps the images and making the editorial itself hard to read, but it gives the design a more dynamic flare.
If David Carson amusingly killed print, then I believe he might also enjoy this version of the site, too.
links for 2007-09-04
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Listing of sites and resources for Web developers.
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I guess hacking a nation’s assets are not acts of war if they take place in cyberspace?
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Granted I’m biased, but I believe CSS Cookbook should be on the list.
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“I can reluctantly understand having to show a permit to fish, a permit to drive and a permit to carry a weapon. Having to show a permit to exist is a scary idea which I got a strong taste of today.”
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Warning: Pie chart.
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An automated method for straightening multiple scanned photographs for those with Photoshop CS2+.
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I believe I finally found a reason to incorporate more Flash into my projects.
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A good list of tricks and techniques to help you be more productive without changing your routine too much.