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Jul 31, 2006
Cocoa

Subclassing NSCell - The Easy Way

Mike Ash, a developer at Rogue Amoeba, published an article a while back about subclassing the Cocoa class NSCell in a way that doesn’t make you want to stab your eyeballs with a pen. Having suffered through a lot of this with iRooster, I recogniz...

Jul 30, 2006
Web Design

Zeldmania Grips Seattle

Adam Greenfield, Aaron Gustafson, Jason Santa Maria, Khoi Vinh, Eric Meyer, and Jeffrey Zeldman are coming to Seattle for a two-day web design conference. It starts September 18th at the Bell Harbor conference center, just down the street from the...

Jul 29, 2006
Miscellaneous

Haley Joel Osment in Car Crash?

According to CNN, Haley Joel Osment (18 years old, now…creepy) was in a car accident a few days ago. Supposedly he hit a brick pillar in his 1995 Saturn (?!?).

Jul 29, 2006
Accessibility

Check your Accessibility with MSAAVerify

Sara Ford, formerly the de facto head of Accessibility testing for all of Visual Studio (and a Black Belt in Karate, so don’t mess with her), published a handy-dandy utility for verifying the correctness of common MSAA properties and roles on GotD...

Jul 28, 2006
Usability

Web Usability Pet Peeve #92: Overriding Common Accelerators

I am a huge, huge, huge advocate of correctly supporting mnemonics and keyboard shortcuts throughout your application. It was, for this reason, that I was very excited when I first learned that you could do the exact same thing for web pages. Mova...

Jul 28, 2006
Windows Mobile

Not Zune Enough!

As everyone and their mother probably knows, now, Microsoft is planning on releasing an iPod competitor in time for Christmas 2006. According to Engadget, Zune is actually the name of the brand and the device, and there are, supposedly, more Zune ...

Jul 28, 2006
Windows

Microsoft + Hardware Design = Yum

An article from Business Week discusses the innovation going into PCs for the Windows Vista timeframe. My opinion? It’s about damned time. Why is it that we have to settle for dull, ugly, oversized beige hunks of plastic when the competition has s...

Jul 27, 2006
Web Design

Zen and the Art of CSS

I’m sure this will come as old-hat to everyone out there, but on the off-chance you’ve never seen it, I highly recommend checking out and playing around with the CSS Zen Garden. CSS Zen Garden is a demonstration of what is achievable through corre...

Jul 27, 2006
Video Games

The Unintended Consequences of Software Features

I just found this on YouTube: it’s a video of a new feature with unintended consequences in the video game, MLB 2k6. Basically, a player can jump up to the top of a stadium wall to catch a ball that would otherwise be a home run. Unfortunately, th...

Jul 26, 2006
Accessibility

What' Eating WCAG 2?

Joe Clark, author of Building Accessible Websites (which needs a cover less-reminiscent of a certain web meme, in my opinion), wrote an impassioned tirade against the perceived uselessness of the W3C’s WCAG 2 guidelines back in May. Joe makes a lo...