April 2010
49 posts
Netflix Streaming on the iPad →
It just keeps getting better, and it’s not even out yet!
March 2010
28 posts
The Future Arrives on Saturday →
We’ve also heard directly from someone who works “for a certain shipping company” who reports that they will have double the number of drivers out in their particular delivery area on Saturday, due to the increased traffic.
I fully believe this is hitting-the-screen-with-a-sledgehammer big.
VaultPress →
A backup service for WordPress blogs by the WordPress peeps. Very cool.
I especially enjoy their header graphic.
Via Daring Fireball
Eight Free Ebooks on Design →
These will come in handy when my iPad gets here…
… in 6 days, 13 hours, 7 minutes, and 30 seconds.
But who’s counting?!
Via swissmiss
Energy Star Program Certifies 15 Out of 20 Bogus... →
The Energy Star program just lost all credibility for me.
A Gasoline-Powered Alarm Clock was among 15 bogus products granted the coveted Energy Star seal of approval by the US Environmental Protection Agency during a secret evaluation conducted by the Government Accountability Office.
Apparently companies don’t have to do much more than send in a photo of their product along with...
Seven Portraits of America’s Endangered Species →
Stunning animals.
Via angie’s inspiration file
Life Review on Gizmodo →
There are many moments in Life, the followup to Planet Earth, that just have to be fake. They look so perfect, so surreal and so crazy that there’s no way that they aren’t made with computers. But they’re all real.
Wait, what? Follow up to Planet Earth you say? Available for pre-order on Amazon you say?
Where’s my credit card…
Incase Does Things Right →
There are two reasons Incase kicks ass:
They make great products.
They make great decisions.
The second point prompted this post: consider their reaction to the fact that potential customers were opening their products in the store to try them out on their devices before purchasing. Most companies reaction to this behavior would be a package redesign that kept people from easilly accessing...
Hackerspaces & Gangplank
I love nights like these. Your feed reader presents you with an interesting blog post, you follow a couple links, search for a little more, and find this entire other world in your own backyard that you never knew existed…
Russell Coker posted about something called a hackerspace that he visited in California last year:
The general concept of a “HackerSpace” is that it is an...
We're In The Future →
In 2005, I had a Motorola RAZR. I used it to check my email from a car once. It was amazing. That was five years ago.
The image above is from 2010, but it was the same in 2008. It’s the settings page that lets me decide whether my phone should use the American or the European standard for resolution and frame rate to transcode video from digital to analog before sending it to my TV.
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Sneak Peek of Content-Aware Fill in the Upcoming... →
As much as Adobe pisses me off it’s worth remembering that they have some incredibly talented people working there, and said people are making some incredibly amazing stuff.
Instapaper on iPad Preview →
As far as I’m concerned, Instapaper isn’t really available on the iPad until it’s native. (This also influenced my decision to make it a universal iPhone/iPad app: I don’t want anyone subjecting themselves to the iPhone edition in pixel-doubled mode.)
While I could have taken the conservative option and waited until a month or two after the iPad’s release before launching Instapaper for...
Superheroes Saved by the iPad →
Foxtrot has the awesome.
Change the Horrid Blue Exposé Outer-Glow →
I love Exposé in Mac OS X, but the blue border for windows introduced in Snow Leopard is… less than polished. This will let you swap it out for something a lot more refined and a lot less gag-inducing. Note that it requires modifying system files, so proceed at your own risk.
Registry Cleaning →
<t0mato> anyone here knows how fast will my computer run after a registry cleaning?
<x5ga> We have a formula to calculate the percentage of speed gained
<x5ga> (Ec/100)a
<x5ga> E is the number of errors cleaned
<x5ga> c is the number of cores your CPU has
<x5ga> a is 0
Truer words…
.999... Is Equal to 1 →
Oh, math, you silly thing!
I’ve always said that one of the reasons I love computers so much is that they do math for me.
Fluid.app →
You know those web apps you keep open in their own tabs/windows all the time? Music sites like Pandora or thesixtyone, productivity sites like your web mail provider or the stuff from 37signals, social networking sites, various Google offerings, etc.? Ever wish those would act more like their own apps instead of cluttering up your browser? That’s the problem Fluid solves: it spawns...
Pictures for Sad Children →
Great comic by John Campbell. A few of my favorites:
a jobless thank
loan people never call just to talk
john campbell that is chemically inaccurate
from the artist experience line of stationary
guest comic: kc green
Portal 2 is Coming →
Yes.
[Crosses fingers for native Mac version.]
Update: Portal 2 for the Mac has been confirmed.
Hell yes.
Star Wars in Yarn →
Adorable!
Via A Day Late & Half a Pixel Short