Friday, August 05, 2011
You can enable the feature by turning it on from the Labs tab in your Gmail settings
Natural user interface is a red herring, what we really need is a Dyson sphere
I would argue that instead of attempting to make our computer interaction look more like “real life” or be more “physical,” the UX designer should attempt to make humans more efficient by capturing and utilizing a larger portion of the user’s existing output (through new and existing sensors in our devices), instead of just capturing a different, contrived sort of output.
From the comments:
Four ipads on her head and she was reading a real book? Shows just how useful iPads are.
How to Build a Newsroom Time Machine
Florida Atlantic University student newspaper, the University Press recently created an entire issue, the ‘old’ way.
“Manual typewriters didn’t have a number 1 key. They used a lower-case L instead.”
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Roathy, 8, lives with his family on top of a large dump on the outskirts of Phnom Pehn, Cambodia
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Bushwick is making it big time
Born-in-Bushwick creations have reached Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other top venues in the United States and abroad — even the tallest building on earth, the 160-story Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
It started out as a bet with a friend at an ad agency that packaging made all the difference in selling a product.
Gotham Greens, Greenpoint Brooklyn
In this state-of-the-art, two million dollar, climate-controlled greenhouse you will find growing leaf and vine crops (including arugula, butterhead lettuce, basil and bok choy, among others) emerging from tiny sponges made of fibers spun from volcanic basalt. Water is re-circulated constantly to ensure that a cap of only 700 gallons is used daily (a mere tenth of that used in conventional farming).
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
BBEdit 10 offers pre-release, fixing Dropbox sync errors with the Color Schemes directory.
Monday, August 01, 2011
Proof of what we’ve known for awhile now. Adobe does not care if Flash dies. They will create a useful tool for whatever it is that you do.
Adobe Edge – Create animated web content using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Here’s a sample of the results.
The preview of this app is now available as a free download.
For New Yorker on iPad, Words Are the Thing – NYTimes
The New Yorker magazine takes a lot of heat for using Adobe’s iPad publishing tool. It outputs files with large footprints, unselectable copy, and little support for native iPad features, like pinch and zoom. Their numbers show though, that in the end, the bells and whistles matter much less than you may think.
Offering the first detailed glimpse into iPad magazine sales since subscriptions became available in the spring, The New Yorker said that it now had 100,000 iPad readers, including about 20,000 people who bought subscriptions at $59.99 a year.
The New Yorker, a magazine that has always been heavy on text, took a different tack from its peers. Instead of loading its iPad app with interactive features, the magazine focused on presenting its articles in a clean, readable format.
And then there’s the ability for print subscribers to download any issue on the iPad. This is the direction all print publications need to head.
…More than 75,000 people have taken advantage of the magazine’s offer to allow print subscribers to download the app free.
Give me great content and a usable delivery platform and I’ll give you my money. Plain and simple.
And from an interview with David Remnick in November 2010:
He said there are vast possibilities for interactive reading that will appear on the New Yorker’s iPad, but those will come when he establishes a proper subscription model so that there is a critical mass of people consuming the materal;
You can’t force a new medium. Take Wired magazine for example, also owned by New Yorker parents, Conde-Nast; their content has consistently declined while they’ve revamped layout and interactivity in both their print and iPad versions.
Friday, July 29, 2011
A couple of years ago, I created three color themes for use with John Gruber’s BBEdit plugin, BBColors. With the release of BBEdit 10 last week, they rolled his theming functionality into BBEdit itself. If you were previously using BBColors, your themes are automatically recognized by BBEdit.
BBEdit 10 now provides a native interface to create, switch, and save your own color schemes. That sure doesn’t suck. I packaged all the older themes, U23D, Gentle Honey and Zen and Tea, along with four brand new schemes, inspired by the colors used in Version 3 to the latest, Version 6 of the 2A site (2Advanced.com).
Download the color schemes (.zip)
To install, unpack the .zip and place the contents in BBEdit’s color scheme directory; ‘users > username > Library > Application Support > BBEdit > Color Schemes’. (your ‘Library’ directory is most likely hidden by default)
Update: I’ve also been collecting several BBEdit Color Schemes and keeping them in this BBEdit-Color-Schemes-Pack github repository. Feel free to fork, add your own, and send a pull request.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Google’s dropping H.264 from Chrome a step backward for openness
Maybe Google views themselves as adept as Apple, and are convinced that cutting off any “weaker alternatives” is the only way to get, what they believe to be, the superior WebM codec into the real world. I bet they even believe that someday this decision will be heralded as a great step forward. Like Apple with the floppy drive.
A nice tidbit on Google’s “openness” stance:
If openness is so important that Google is willing to remove features from Chrome, there is no way that the company should be shipping Flash in Chrome.
And:
… <video> will now become: the iOS fallback tag. Flash will remain the preferred solution for “real” browsers, and the only people using <video> will be those catering to iOS.
Fallback tag? With the way things are going, iOS will NOT be considered the fallback!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Search keywords are simply THE best thing happening in your web browser (Chrome and FF). Lifehacker has some good ones to power up that omnibar.
The worst thing happening in your browser? Chrome drops support for native H.264 <video> support. I love Google’s spin on why they’re doing this. Ironically, in the near future, the only way to play H.264 encoded video in Chrome will be via the Flash plugin!
Remember when pinch and zoom was new? How cool was that! Get that feeling back by watching this Video of upcoming multi-touch gestures in iOS 4.3
Great episode of NPR Technology podcast discussing Steve Jobs and Steve Ives’ symbiotic design relationship: “The Behind-The-Scenes Partnership At Apple“.
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