Nov 29, 2006
Pitchers of Liquors and Milk
I just discovered that Colin Meloy of the Decemberists is a frequent contributor to his band’s Wikipedia page (or perhaps it’s just someone claiming to be Colin…). Very funny.
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Nov 29, 2006
Apple
Oh yeah, iRooster
Chimp Software has released iRooster 2.2, the alarm clock for Mac OS X. To celebrate, they are offering an iPod Nano (PRODUCT)RED edition to one lucky customer. This update features full Intel compatibility as a Universal Binary, updates to its ea...
Nov 28, 2006
Cocoa
Styling NSWindows in Cocoa
Bithaus has a handy little chunk of Objective C source code up that provides programmatic capabilities to styling NSWindows. It’s modeled on Matt Gemmell’s snazzy TunesWindow class (which I use in iRooster, by the by), but appears to handle all of...
Nov 27, 2006
Innovation
On preventing the collapse of Western civilization
Much has been written about the imminent decline of Western civilization due to the twin threats of text and instant messages. I’ve always prided myself on my ability to write complete sentences, but I occasionally worry about whether today’s adol...
Nov 21, 2006
Ajax
Web development tools every Windows developer must have
No respectable Windows developer would try debugging their application with printf()’s or Console.WriteLine()’s, so why would you try doing the same thing with Javascript? Yeesh. I’ve been hacking a fair amount of Javascript and Ajaxy things latel...
Nov 21, 2006
One of those months
This has been one of those months where I wonder to myself whether becoming a goat herder would represent, net-net, an overall improvement in my life. Hmm.
Nov 21, 2006
UI Design
Making everyone happy does everything but that
Joel Spolsky has an interesting essay up on his site entitled Choices = Headaches, which explores the myriad options available in Windows Vista for…leaving your computer: Every time you want to leave your computer, you have to choose between nine,...
Nov 21, 2006
Accessibility
Accessibility Virtual Brown Bag Talk
Anna Bradley, the CEO of Criterion 508 Solutions, will be giving a talk at the Access Board, a Federal agency for accessibility, on December 13th. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any clear sense of what Anna will actually be talking about....
Nov 18, 2006
Usability
Optimize your UI' readability - why Apple Mail sucks
One of my least-favorite pieces of software ever is Mail 2.x, included in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. What was a stable, reasonably performant, sensible, and usable mail client in previous iterations has become "hideously ugly," and "inflexible, inconsis...
Nov 16, 2006
Web Design
Font faces of the movers and shakers
Stuart Brown of Modern Life is Rubbish published an interesting article a couple days ago on the fonts used in Web 2.0 companies’ logotypes, including such gems as Interstate and Frutiger (I love those fonts). Unfortunately, he didn’t go into any ...