Strongspace looks like a really nice remote file storage app, and a really nice compliment to Basecamp. They claim they play nicely together.
[0 comments]Firefox blocks popups by default, but jerkoffs have figured out a way to use Flash to call the popup and avoid the blocking. Here are instruction on how to tell Firefox to block popups even from plugins. Very, very good advice.
[0 comments]Flickr Explore is a fantastic, brand new use for Flickr. Cheers to nice, homegrown added-value.
The idea is simple. Magically, by analyzing tags and image popularity and other attributes, Flickr creates a calendar of every day of every month and “hand picks” images based on “interestingness.” The result is a spectacular selection of photos that invariably […]
A little company called Lussumo took the time to rethink the way web-based forums should work. They wrote a new one from scratch. Vanilla is standards compliant, made with PHP, CSS, and XHTML, and it turned out spectacularly well. I’ll be installing it here soon, really only as a test, but we’ll see how it […]
Photoshop is an amazing tool for touching up photos, among other things. It’s so powerful, in fact, that much of what we see in magazines, drool over, and occasionally masturbate to, is nothing more than a clever illusion. Greg, from Greg’s Digital Archive, gives us a little look into the madness. (This one has been […]
I don’t normally talk about Information Architecture or User Experience design (it’s what I do for a living for those of you who don’t know) on this website. Separation of church and state I guess, but I’ll probably be posting more stuff like this in the coming days/weeks, so be warned.
This long article is […]
In case you haven’t been following this for the past week. Many rumors and confirmations last week that led up to this morning’s WWDC (WorldWide Developer’s Conference) when Steve Jobs officially announced that all Apple machines would be using Intel x486 chips by 2007! Yes, hell is now frozen over. Engadget and MacObserver have minute […]
Soon we’ll all be making video games that completely suck. Thanks to a few new tools, homegrown games are getting closer to mainstream. It may be time for me to polish up some pixel art and get into the game.
The first is a brand new web-interfaces, PHP-based framework for creating a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online […]
Google announced a new program today called, the “Summer of Code.” In their neverending quest to outdo everyone, all the friggin time, Google will be offering $4500 awards to each student participant who successfully completes an open-source programming project with any one of the participating organizations. They’ll be accepting 200 students to start, I think, […]
Apple’s stock (AAPL) was up $2.21 today, or 5.89%, on news that it is considering using Intel chips in the future. That seems unlikely to me and most everyone else for so many reasons, but some people really believe it, even predicted it years and years ago. The IBM chips seem to be working out […]
Harry McCracken from PC World had the opportunity yesterday, along with a bunch of other people, to go to a Google Factory Tour to listen to a bunch of senior people from Google talk about their business, their future, and their humor. He writes up some of the top ten things he learned here. Some […]
Contrary to popular belief, including my own, Google doesn’t get everything exactly right. After the release of Google Web Accelerator, even I raved about how they were continuing to change the world. Well, it turned out that Google Web Accelerator causes many problems, probably more than it’s worth. Basically, it trolls through every site you […]