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A Rube Goldberg machine for the Information Age
OK, I guess I’m spoiling the surprise with both the title and the accompanying screenshot, but that’s only to get you to take the time to wait for slow-loading Flash on what is apparently a Dutch...
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OK, this is how John Gruber makes $1750 a week on Daring Fireball
I’ve been reading Daring Fireball for a while now (long enough to have noticed and be relieved at the eventual removal of the questionable tagline, “Gay for Macs”), and I’ve enjoyed John Gruber’s pithy...
View ArticleIntroducing the Room 34 Music Player
OK, I didn’t create the music player myself. It’s the freely available, Flash-based XSPF Player. But it’s a pretty slick tool to create a custom music playlist on your own website. So now I have a...
View ArticleAssembling the web designer’s toolkit
Web designers need a lot of tools at their disposal. Mostly this comes in the form of commercial software. If you don’t own the full Adobe Creative Suite, you at least have Photoshop (or, if you’re a...
View ArticleCakePHP Auth component, Flash and Internet Explorer… a deadly combination
OK, it’s not really deadly at all… other than that it will kill your CakePHP session and log you out. My CakePHP-based CMS uses YUI Uploader, a Flash-based file uploader utility. It’s much better than...
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You say you want a revolution? I say you want an iPad, even if you don’t...
By now, lots of people have had lots to say about Apple’s latest revelation: the iPad. Opinions run the gamut from hating it (calling it a big iPod touch), to embracing it as a game-changing,...
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No one’s listening
Comments. Over the past decade, the Internet has become inundated with them. Ten years, ago, the concept of a “blog” was considered cutting edge, by those who even knew what they were. Now, they’re...
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Some more thoughts on the iPad from someone without one
I’m a joke maker Did you hear the one about the guy who bought a Kindle on the day the iPad was released? Of course you didn’t, because no one is buying a Kindle today! Well, I’m sure someone’s buying...
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Apple vs. Adobe: This is fargin’ war!
I’m sure I’m not the only child of the ’80s who watched Johnny Dangerously several (hundred) times as a kid. One of my favorite characters was Roman Moronie, whose command of the English language —...
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So just what exactly is behind my dislike of Flash?
Caveat emptor. This is going to be a really long post. But I’ve been saving this up for a long time, and hopefully I can purge myself of it in one sitting. Also, I apologize for that vaguely vomitous...
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How not to do the Internet: a case study in bad web UX
My Subaru dealership’s website(s) My Subaru Outback is due for service. Time to schedule an appointment. This is the kind of thing I just love to do online. No human interaction necessary!...
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Did Adobe actually mock up these Mac OS X screenshots on Windows? (Yes… I’m...
So, for reasons I’d rather not get into, I had to break down and install Flash Player in Safari today. (OK, I’ll get into it briefly… due to a rather obscure bug, Chrome — my preferred browser — has...
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