Imagine working for a company that is tolerated, at best, in many social circles. Imagine being a computer science graduate, going to a class reunion, telling people you work for Microsoft, and watching your former classmates slowly back away as i...
I simply cannot stress enough that you. must. use. the. <label>. tag. when. creating. forms. ARGH! What brings this up for me today was a Digg link to a website entitled ObscureTags.com. The site is really quite funny, I’ll admit, but it’s always ...
Blurbomat has a fantastic advanced Photoshop tutorial on retouching your photos without doing anything that that might “look like ass. Avoid looking like ass.” Jon Armstrong, the tutorial author and husband of the chicken-hating Heather Armstrong...
Apple Gazette, a heretofore unknown Mac rumors site, claims that Apple will replace Aqua with a new look-and-feel codenamed Illuminous in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, scheduled for release sometime in 2007. The conjecture states that: What will Illumin...
On the sixth, I wrote that all of my proceeds from iRooster on December 7th would be donated to Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play Charity to help out sick kids in children’s hospitals. The outpouring of generosity was amazing! I ended up collecting $200...
On Thursday, December 7th, I and several other small Mac developers will donate all of our day’s product proceeds to Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play charity, which gives toys, games, movies, and other fun things to children’s hospitals around the worl...
If you’re anything like me, you probably spend a good chunk of time using Print Screen or Alt+PrtSc in conjunction with MSPaint or Photoshop. Microsoft has included a cool, little utility in Windows Vista that will make your life so much easier. ...
Microsoft, today, launched Expression Studio and WPF/E, its first big foray into the designer space. What does it consist of, and what does it mean to you? Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 13 hours and 45 minutes now (it’s a jok...
Update: I just launched a new website that tracks the best custom Cocoa controls for iOS and OS X. It doesn’t have a ton on it yet, but I’m stocking it up with my favorite items. Also, feel free to submit your own! As a Cocoa developer on Mac OS ...
Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror has a truly spectacular example of bad UI design up on his website today. It’s so bad, in fact, that it has been dugg 1087 times. Wow. The piece of UI in question is a VB-based wrapper around the fantastically powerful...