All Blog Posts (Page 61)

Oct 13, 2006
Apple

All Photos, All the Time and the Mac Ethos

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...

Oct 12, 2006
Design

Visualizing Air Traffic Data

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.

Oct 12, 2006
Innovation

For All Seasons

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...

Oct 11, 2006
Web Design

Emma starts a Web 2.0 Haters Club - can I join?

Emma Dobrescu, a multilingual Romanian web designer of some repute, expressed her hatred for Web 2.0 on her blog yesterday: I’ll tell you the truth, I’m not an AJAX hater, I don’t despise collaborative applications, I am all for the rich user expe...

Oct 10, 2006

Google?

I’m a bit perplexed as to what’s going on at Google right now. Less than two months ago, Marissa blogged about changes to the Google homepage, including the addition of Google Video to the main bar. The rumormill spun up to state very loudly that...

Oct 10, 2006
Design

Create color palettes from your photos

I just ran across a cool web application that generates a two color palettes (one “dull” and one “vibrant”) from any photo that you submit to it. Seems like it could be quite handy. (via etc.)

Oct 09, 2006
Windows Forms

Color Pickers

I needed a color picker control for a project I’m working on in my free time (which I hope will see the light of day in the next week or two!). I ran across a couple very nice-looking ones during a cursory search. Hopefully they’ll prove useful to...

Oct 08, 2006
Cocoa

Make Your Cocoa App a Little More Consistent

One of my biggest beefs with Apple is the amount of time and energy they expend on the ‘you must follow the Apple Ux Guidelines’ mantra, followed by releasing applications that look nothing look their own guidelines. What this ends up meaning to y...

Oct 06, 2006
Usability

Usability Glossary

I found a snazzy glossary of usability terms by way of Nikki Chau. It contains over a thousand entries on everything from accessibility aids to WIMP interface.

Oct 06, 2006
Interior Design

Ten cool places to work

Positive Sharing discussed ten really cool workplaces yesterday, ranging from Pixar with their individually styled ‘huts,’ to Red Bull London with a series of slides to transport you between different floors. A Flickr feed with all of the pictures...