Tantek Çelik and Leah Culver competed in the Yahoo Hack Day competition a couple weeks back, and won a 30GB iPod for their trouble. Their 2nd place-taking hack combined the Yahoo Mail APIs with Flickr and a Greasemonkey script, which would send a ...
No, I don’t think it is. On the contrary, Windows Media Player 11 is actually my favorite media player on the market, handily beating iTunes 7 in terms of speed, usability, and aesthetics. That said, as it was put in MS Tech Today: I’m confused ab...
Khoi Vinh has a three-question interview with Jeffrey Zeldman up on his website. Khoi interviewed Zeldman in advance of an appearance Zeldman will be making at the Small Talks series at AIGA New York, today. Sadly it appears that the talk has been...
In just over a month my least favorite time of year, the holiday shopping frenzy, will begin in earnest. On the 12th, Microsoft announced that “More than 250 hardware and software products from over 50 industry partners have received either the Ce...
I just found this blog entry from Rebellin Woman: Today marked the end of Day 3 where a hacker has had access to my personal Gmail account, and Google has done absolutely nothing to rectify the problem. What really urks me is that yesterday, I ...
Dave Vronay has a post up on shell revealed about features that didn’t quite make it into Windows Vista, like Mimesweeper, not-very-safe Delete and a TECO interpreter for the Start Menu: This was really a great feature, and it was nice to cater to...
Hi there - I am composing this on Thursday, October 12 around 11:30PM Pacific time, in Seattle. At the time this message is published, I will be touching down in Athens, Greece. It will about 9:50 AM in Athens, and I’ll probably be stumbling aroun...
One of my favorite Mac apps in the whole wide world is Pandora, a Google Images scraper. Version 2.0 of the app came out fairly recently, and includes a ton of new functionality, including support for finding files of any type and an open plugin a...
Aaron Koblin, who does…something or another with Design and Media Arts at UCLA, has published a series of movies and pictures that visualize the state of air traffic across the United States.
Andreas Mueller created a series of interactive vignettes entitled For All Seasons back in 2004. It’s quite difficult to explain, so I’ll leave it to him: [For All Seasons is a] piece about memories, seasons and using the elements of the textual r...