This past week, one of my favorite design forum hangouts, Typophile.com was redesigned. It’s a great site, and I’m grateful for the folks at Punchcut for maintaining and hosting this great resource. The redesign is nice, but one thing still really bugged me…they use a fixed width layout and assume I use a gigantic monitor [...]
If you haven’t gotten into podcasting yet, it’s just become easier. As part of the newly released PodcastMN.com – The Sound of Minnesota, Tim from winecast.net set up a pre-loaded iPodder. For you, that means, just download the Windows or Macintosh version and you’ll automatically receive the current 14 PodcastMN podcasts.
If you’re looking for an easy way to share, sort and rank your bookmarks, check out FeedMarker. The interface is sexier than del.icio.us and Bruno knows where T-1 isn’t And, speaking of Del.icio.us, I’ve been using Spurl for a few weeks now. I’ve fallen in love with it. Nice, simple interface and does exactly what [...]
It’s Friday. Time to go through the week’s leftovers… Macradobe Since Macromedia’s days are now numbered, take a stroll down memory lane with a history of Macromedia products. Remember Drumbeat? Xres? Soundedit 16? Extreme 3D? Fontographer? Open Source for Democracy Wide Open: Open source methods and their future potential is a report from Demos, a [...]
It’s Friday. Time to clean out the closet of links I didn’t get around to creating full posts for. Sproutliner Sproutliner is a free web-based to-do list similiar to 37Sig’s Ta-Da List. Ta-Da list excels in simplicity. Sproutliner sticks with that, but it requires a learning curve to reach it (is that an oxymoron?). It [...]
(Yes, I’m cross-posting. ;o) Open Source software has always been a basic building block of the web: the Linux operating system, Apache Web Server, PHP scripting language, MySQL database, an assortment of P2P networking applications, email clients, web browsers, etc. Sourceforge has nearly 100,000 open source projects registered–with at least a quarter of them being [...]
When 37Signals launched Basecamp, one of the interesting interface elements they introduced was the ‘yellow fade’ technique. It was a way to highlight a change to the user interface without being obtrusive to the entire experience. A quick highlight to draw attention, then a fade out so as to get out of the way of [...]
Technorati.com’s goal is to have a finger on the pulse of the blogosphere. A few weeks back, they released this idea of ‘tags’. Tagging posts first hit my radar with Flickr, the photo sharing site. In Flickr, people add free-form tags to their photos creating a bottom-up, grassroots taxonomy or folksonomy. The end result is [...]
As you all know, I’m a big fan of podcasting, and less a fan of broadcast radio. This means iTunes is running constantly. My headphones are in and my phone is on vibrate, cause there are other people in the world. Sometimes, when I’m working, I miss a call. Not awful, it goes to voicemail [...]
I’m a big fan of Wikis. Their quick-and-now quality is real appealing. Some people think in outline, I think in WordsJammedTogether. A while back, I discovered Flying Meat’s desktop Wiki, VooDooPad. VooDooPad has replaced my years old Excel project list and is slowly replacing Stickies as my ‘gotta write this down somewhere’ application. 37Signals introduced [...]