March 2010
6 posts
A DIY Turing Machine - Turing machine - Gizmodo →
just wonderful
think design - Graphic Design Freebies - 120+... →
Some free hand drawn vector icon images. Nice.
Fancy Math Allows For Near-Perfect Enhancement of... →
I love it when science fiction starts to look like it may become science fact
Instapaper Blog: Scrollback →
Before Instapaper Pro 2.2, I got frequent emails from customers who were upset that they had inadvertently tapped the status bar, which scrolls to the top of the article and loses their position. I understood completely, since losing your read position is a form of minor data loss.
Most of them…
February 2010
17 posts
Stepcase » Blog Archive » Format String for the... →
Found this information stunningly hard to come by in the Apple developer doc area. Very useful.
Hum, link dead. Try here
Microsoft’s Challenge With Windows Phone 7 Is... →
Still not ready to better against MS, but you do need the developers. And the numbers. Apart from that, it’s going well.
The Nexus One's Dirty Display Secret - Nexus one... →
Eurgh.
Corona iPhone using Lua
With the recent Adobe Photoshop 20th anniversary buzz ringing in my ears, I decided to take a quick look at the platform used to develop the Photoshop One on iPhone app. I have to say it’s very tidy. The system uses a “middle” language that can be built into an iPhone application. That middle language is Lua (yes, that’s right, it’s the same thing that World of...
The Mariana Trench To Scale [Pic] | I Am Bored →
Wow.
Is Flash really a CPU hog playing video?
With all the recent noise about the iPad and its absence of Flash, I decide to run a test using the Vimeo HTML5 player against the Flash version of their player. I would like to make it clear these tests were performed on a modern MacBook Pro, and were not replicated in Windows. It is well understood Flash is better optimised for Windows, and no-doubt for various mobile platforms. Furthermore, the...
The WebKit monopoly
mrgan:
Jim Ray calls out Gruber for being pleased with how WebKit is dominating the mobile-browser market:
(…) with something like browser rendering engines, I’m philosophically opposed to a monoculture. A few years ago, Gecko was the best rendering engine available, then WebKit came out of nowhere to beat Gecko at its own game, and faster, to boot. Now Gecko and WebKit, on the desktop, anyway,...
TidBITS iPod & iPhone: Does the iPhone OS Need... →
Good (as in better than mine) description of multi-tasking and the iPhone/Pad’s requirement for it.
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A List Apart: Articles: Using SVG For Flexible,... →
SVG is another key part of the mix of technologies modern browsers have in their armoury, and its stronger graphic hierarchy will prove useful when needed.
“Developers who supplement Flash with HTML5 may soon tire of Flash—but Adobe has...”
– Flash, iPad, Standards – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Absolutely spot on. The whole piece hits the nail on the head. Adobe, please do what you do best, build great tools for the creatives, leave the delivery platform to others to solve.
Daring Fireball Linked List: SublimeVideo — HTML5... →
When I first read this I assumed Gruber was a little OTT. He’s not, this player is literally breathtakingly gorgeous and well written (see earlier post).
They do need Firefox, and to degrade to Flash in IE.
Jilion - SublimeVideo, HTML5 & JavaScript Video... →
Fantastic work using HTML5 video tag and Javascript, Firefox and IE support (graceful degrade into Flush Flash), full screen if you have latest Webkit dev builds (read next version of Chrome and Safari). I love the “Full Browser” mode, slick and gorgeous. I’m not saying it can’t be done in Flash, I’m saying it isn’t done in Flash.
Safari (v4.0.4+)
Google...
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“There’s so much I could say about the iPad, particularly being a Flash guy. But...”
– Sorry for quoting verbatim, but I wanted you to be able to scroll up and down rather than compare two pages.
Here’s exactly what people don’t understand yet (although I think the author does kind of get it, but dismisses it as because the iPad is “cool”. It does look like it...
Some trivial notes on the iPad
Good notes.
mrgan:
(I’ll be honest: you can expect a lot of iPad-related posts from me in the near future, given that it’s the next big thing and all. Caveat tumblor.)
True to the iPad’s promise of “no preferred orientation”, the home screen can be used horizontally (unlike the iPhone’s). As far as I can tell, though, this is not the case with the Keynote app.
Apple’s case has a...
Daring Fireball Linked List: Flash’s Decline on... →
Life-hacker claims that the number of Flash disabled browsers has increased three-fold (sounds less explosive than tripled, and I believe that is appropriate).
It would be easy to read more into this than there is. Essentially here we have a site that is all about tuning technology to meet your needs. Is it any surprise people who browse a site like this are making Flash Opt-In? I don’t...
January 2010
30 posts
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Do I (or you) hate Flash?
For myself, the answer is no. I intensely dislike what some people do with it, and I believe it’s a legacy solution to a current problem. However, I don’t hate it. Flash Ads are horrible and chew too much CPU power. That may not be Flash’s fault, but by the time you have 2 or 3 ads running on a page, the CPU is often pegged out. I’m sure folks could write their ads to chew...
Daring Fireball Linked List: The iPad and Chrome... →
This hadn’t crossed my mind, but yes Google is thinking exactly the same thing as Apple.
A little like my previous blog… you don’t often go wrong putting your chips on Google either. My suspicion is in the end Google is the new Microsoft and will have the bulk of the market, Apple will continue to grow its profits with a smaller market share.
The only thing is, Chrome OS is a...
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The iPad May Fail
The industry is currently locked in an epic war of speculation. Will a device most have never used be great, or terrible. Will it sell like iPods or set the world damp like the AppleTV? The answer is we don’t know yet. It’s never stupid to place your chips on Steve Jobs, but he’s not infallible.
However, most of what the industry (blogosphere?) is saying is wrong. I thought it...
“It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that...”
– This Adobe blog entry is just sour grapes. Apple have every right to do what they want with their own platform, just as we have every right not to buy it if we don’t like what they “impose”.
What I really want to know is… if 75% is the amount of video on the web distributed...
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Daring Fireball: The iPad Big Picture →
John Gruber nails it for me. Sure I want an iPad to play with, sure I’m going to build some great stuff for it, as will many others… but the big news today, Apples big new product is the A4 processor.
“from what I saw today, Apple doesn’t just own and control a mobile CPU, they own and control the hands-down best mobile CPU in the world.”
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The Flash Blog » HTML 5 and Flash video →
It’s great to see Adobe talking about these things, but to confine the discussion to just HTML5 is a mistake, and I can only assume that it’s one driven by a desire not to enter the broader discussion. I’ll quote my own comment here as no doubt it will sink into the middle of the mire, but I would love to see Adobe take Dreamweaver and Flash authoring/design capabilities and...
Star Wars Episode IV: A NEW HOPE →
If you don’t love this… you have no soul (OK, OK, a bit much but, you don’t have much of a soul). Star Wars intro in pure HTML and CSS3. You’ll need a modern Webkit based browser (Safari 4.04 or better will do)
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HTML5 coming of age faster than expected?
I thought that that war between Flash and HTML5 was something that would really get going in 2011, possibly 2012. However, I had forgotten something very important. The energies driving HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript performance in the big HTML5-CSS3-JS browsers are open source projects, and very well run focused ones at that. Firefox and Webkit are moving quicker than Adobe can, and the tie between the...
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Naming Apple's Tablet
There are not many days before we all know if it even exists, but the proximity of actual information has not deterred continuing speculation. I will leave others to continue to guess on the tech specs, and focus on the most important thing. The name.
For me there are three three candidates I like…
iPad: Come on, it just fits. My favorite, probably. Reflects the fact that it’s...
Lamp-In-A-Box Design It Yourself
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You can design your own lamps. They are delivered in a box. I would like to do this, would you?
Apple Reportedly Looking to Revolutionize Mobile... →
Does anyone need Mobile Ads to be better?
Gran Turismo 5 "delayed" in Japan, release TBA... →
This is the last franchise I still track… shame it seems to be struggling
Sarcasm punctuation mark aims to put an end to... →
Yes. That’s exactly what the English language needs, more complexity.
This Is God's Computer - God's Computer - Gizmodo →
Probably
avatar is pocahontis →
Google faces deluge of Nexus One complaints |... →
Google is learning, like many before it, what it means to change from a software supplier (regardless of media) to a service and sales organisation. There will be blood, but just like .Mac and Apple’s cloud failure, Google will learn quickly. No-one will care in six months time, Google will have solved the issues, and know how to deal with incoming next time.
As Walt Disney said...
a week with Chrome at found_drama →
I already use Chrome on my Windows machine, but I’ve not made the transition on the Mac. I’m not quite sure why, there is no doubt Chrome feels much faster than Safari on the Mac.
Maybe I should set it as my default and ping a blogette out every time I fire up Safari?
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Write one leaf about changes to your sidebar.
I signed up to tumblr a few hours ago, started following writeoneleaf, determined to write something about their proposed topics if nothing else. I must admit I cringed when I saw the topics they had posted (I mean, princesses, come on). Imagine my surprise when I sign on and see the titular challenge, with the following note
writeoneleaf: Or something else that has changed recently.
I barely...
Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter - The... →
Really just an excuse to promote one of my favourite sites. After looking at this set of images please take a tour through their archives. Striking and thought provoking.
iType Keyboard from ION for your iPhone is... →
I don’t know where to start. Take one, carefully designed device with a particular and carefully selected set of use-cases, and try and make it a really bad version of a device designed for a different set of use-cases.
Fail.
Google Chrome for Mac (finally) gets Extension... →
Extensions… I’m in two minds. They offer the ability for the user to control the functionality of their browser. However, if users could design software, they’d design software.
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Get off the fence and chose: Standard or...
The web has once again become an interesting battle-ground for competing browsers. For a number of years now there have been choices. Internet Explorer, Firefox, and to a lesser extent Safari and Opera too. However, web-designers worked hard to ensure that most users didn’t need to care. The overhead of this activity (and by overhead, I mean cost) could only be found on the time-sheets of...
“Small Caps: http://✪df.ws/efg
Gruber’s links are often not clickable....”
– daringfireball