December 2010
17 posts
Macworld's Mac and iPhone-friendly alternatives to... →
nikf:
Some good options if you’re looking to switch away from Delicious.
The iPad browsers with Pinboard integration were a good find.
FlickrTouchr →
nikf:
If you’re worried about Yahoo’s plans for Flickr, this script (via Keegan Jones) will grab all your photos from Flickr and organise them in folders based on the Flickr photoset name.
Yahoo! actually went on the offensive and claimed they weren’t going to kill...
– Jason Scott (via marco)
AaronMahnke: Emotions →
See, I think the thing that’s holding back so many mobile phone makers is that their hardware looks like Industrial Age, mass-produced widgets. You can see too many seams, parts bend and indent, and plastic abounds. And this was ideal and acceptable 10 years ago.
—Aaron Mahnke
See full article for the rest. Its a good read.
AaronMahnke: Zeldman's "Style versus Design" →
aaronmahnke:
I realize I’m a few days late to the party, but this article by Jeffrey Zeldman on the Adobe website is fantastic. This was one of those pieces that I nodded along with as I read it, and agreed with everything he said. I especially love the comments about how many designers treat the normal,…
TIRED Interface seemingly still designed primarily for dudes who dig binary....
– WIRED Magazine on the Google Nexus S
Notion Ink releases Adam demo video, attempts to... →
On a technical level, the [BlackBerry] PlayBook may well be better than the...
– BusinessWeek
Note:
“support for the Adobe Flash technology that underpins most Web sites”
What planet do they live on?
nikf.org: What Does It Even Mean? →
nikf:
RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie, in BusinessWeek talking about the Playbook’s introduction: There’s tremendous turbulence in the ecosystem, of course, in mobility. And that’s sort of an obvious thing, but also there is tremendous architectural contention at play. And I’m going to really frame our…
ROTFL! This is pathetic. I wonder if he realizes how absurd he sounds speaking that...
Minimal Mac: An Open Letter to Tumblr →
mnmal:
Patrick summarized in a very polite way what tumblr should know:
Dear Tumblr,
This current outage, it’s sheer length of downtime, and your lack of clarity about expectations for its resolution, are disheartening at best and irresponsible at most. It really saddens me because, as you may be able to tell from above, I’m a big fan and don’t want to switch.
The bottom line of all...
Google, though, needs to get Android’s story together, because the fickle...
– Brian Chen, WIRED Magazine
Seth's Blog: The inevitable decline due to clutter →
minimalmac:
Once you overload the user, you train them not to pay attention. More clutter isn’t free. In fact, more clutter is a permanent shift, a desensitization to all the information, not just the last bit.
See also: The forgotten cost of features