December 2008
96 posts
“But today, I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex...”
– Richard Foreman, American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer, on his 2005 play The Gods Are Pounding My Head! (via caterina.net)
The Uncanny Valley of User Interface Design →
Bookmarked for my work.
So I’d recommend that if you’re considering or actively building Ajax/RIA applications, you should consider the Uncanny Valley of user interface design and recognize that when you build a “desktop in the web browser”-style application, you’re violating users’ unwritten expectations of how a web application should look and behave. This choice may have significant negative...
“It’s not that Steve Jobs is fearless, but rather that he’s afraid of not...”
– John Gruber on Steve Jobs and the decision to abandon Macworld Expo.
SmartSleep chooses the best sleep setting for your... →
Courtesy of superamit, SmartSleep is a great PrefPane to enable/disable the Sleep feature (instead of Hibernate) based on how much battery you have. Since Sleep saves your state in RAM (memory) instead of on disk, your Mac laptop will wake faster.
Word of the Day: Ponzi Crawl →
A pub crawl that adds a new person to buy a round at each location. Each new person is promised that they will get free drinks at all the future bars if they buy this round. Obviously, whoever joins the ponzi crawl last gets screwed!
How to tell if a girl loves you. →
If she loves you, if she really loves you, you’ll know it. If you can wake up to her staring at you and it’s not even mildly creepy, if you catch her smelling the shoulder of the hooded sweatshirt you lent her for an autumn walk at the beach, and not for B.O., if she makes you a pancake in the shape of a shark, if she calls you drunkenly at four in the morning “to talk,” if she laughs at your...
Now Flickr is hit by Yahoo layoffs →
The Guardian reports that George Oates on the Flickr team has been laid off. George is one of the original developers for what is now Flickr and is probably most responsible for its fantastic UI + experience. I’ve also heard her give great talks on building online communities through shared interests which is what Flickr is all about. Her most recent position was manager of the Flickr...
“Figure out the absolute least you need to do to implement the idea, do just...”
– John Gruber (via jeremywatt)
Useful iPhone Tips & Tricks →
I gleaned the tips from this blog post along with tips posted in the comments. There’s a whole bunch I had no idea about. There’s a few more in the link along with helpful photos for tips #1-12.
Tap the status bar (the bar at the top with the clock) to jump to the to top of a long email or web page.
Press the round Home button and the Sleep/Wake button on top of the iPhone to take...
