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links for 2008-08-27
August 27, 2008 – 12:31 pm
IE Death March
August 24, 2008 – 12:06 am
So I put together another microfocused blog (is that a buzzword already?): IE Death March. On this blog you’ll find links and posts about web developers and companies staunching the bleeding that is developing for Internet Explorer 6.
A side note about these microfocused blogs: I’ve found it’s way easier to produce content for a site that has a clear focus. It’s pretty obvious in retrospect, but sometimes you wonder you haven’t written anything in months and I suspect in most cases it’s because of a lack of focus. Where do you even start if you don’t know where you’re going?
links for 2008-08-23
August 23, 2008 – 12:30 pm
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3D spatial puzzle game - rotate the floating pixels until they match the icon, matching as many as you can…
ExpanDrive - UI Proposal
August 21, 2008 – 1:49 pm
I quickly mocked up a few changes I’d like to see in ExpanDrive :
ExpanDrive - Proposed Interface
Basically, it displays information that is normally hidden behind the edit dialog. You can see quickly at a glance where each drive goes and how it logs in, and the edit button isn’t hidden behind a context menu or drop down.
For comparison, here’s the current interface:
ExpanDrive Interface
Check out Gruber’s take on the ExpanDrive interface, slightly more comprehensive.
Dock Full of Pulled iPhone Apps
August 14, 2008 – 5:28 pm
I realized I have a few apps that are now rare collector’s items. The four apps in my dock in the screenshot are the four apps that I heard were pulled from the app store.
For accuracy’s sake, PhoneSaber was pulled by the developer (though not before was threatened by THX (LukasArts?)).
Surely, there is a market for breaking the DRM and trading these on a (as far as I know) theoretical site called something along the lines of “the pirate bay”…
How long until all OS X developers start signing and encrypting their apps for the Mac?
postscript: Speaking of iPhone apps and Netshare… the WordPress app was unable to post the photo and couldn’t post the text without screwing up the formatting (and don’t get me started on WordPress in Mobile Safari), so I ended up launching iPhoto to grab the screenshot, and firing up Netshare to post this via Safari.
Don’t be fooled by the “No Service” in my screenshot, I took that in the bus tunnel under Seattle.
HTML 5 Linking Demo
July 23, 2008 – 12:38 pm
Eric Meyer has created a quick and dirty demo that shows us how elements in HTML 5 can become hyperlinks.
He had an issue where it wouldn’t show any visited “links” properly, and seeing a need for it, I tossed in a few lines of very dirty javascript to fix it. The javascript inserts some anchors, grabs the applied style via the sneaky :pseudo selecter, and determines if the browser has visited the target by calculating it’s height.
Of course, this is definitely going to not work in Internet Explorer, however, that could be easily fixed by using a framework like jQuery.
And for my third trick…
July 22, 2008 – 2:05 pm
We’ve finally launchedstevejobsfacts.com. That makes the 3rd project to launch in 3 days. So yeah, I’m a bit tired.
So tired, in fact, that it took me one month, and sixteen days, and five hours to actually click the publish button.
Photoshop and Spotlight (or Quicksilver) Shortcut: CMD+SPACE
– 11:26 am
I’ve been annoyed for the last few years that the Photoshop Creative Suite versions never played nicely with the system shortcut cmd+space. That shortcut in Photoshop is a zoom tool that I use, hold the keys down, click and drag to zoom to the selected area. Convenient. However, by default, that same shortcut cmd+space in OS X will open up the spotlight menu drop down. Annoying.
It’s even more annoying to me because I’ve assigned that shortcut to Quicksilver, which pops a dialog window in the middle of the screen. I could still work, it’s just having that window popping in and out all the time was a little distracting. Especially if it pops up right where I was about to click.
I finally figured out a workaround that doesn’t involve me changing keyboard shortcuts or disabling them completely. Simply switch the order you hit the keys. Instead of cmd+space, use space+cmd. You get the same result in Photoshop as if you used cmd+space, since the zoom tool is a function of the hand tool (brought up by holding the spacebar).
I can’t believe it took me years to get annoyed enough to figure it out.
WordPress for the iPhone
July 21, 2008 – 9:47 pm
Oh wow. It’s finally out and way awesome. This is way easier that trying to use the Wordpress admin page in Mobile Safari.
Here’s a photo of it in action:
I am writing this while watching Gotham Knight with my daughter. I think she may be a bit of a Batman nut.
Oh, and here’s a link: WordPress for the iPhone
busyness and whatnot
June 6, 2008 – 12:20 am
I can’t believe how crazy busy we’ve been. On top of moving, and travelling the globe, in the last couple months, I have somehow managed to find time to start redesinging and rewriting the interface and software that power one of our websites.
In the last 24 hours even, I managed to launch a new site that currently cycles through obama’s quotes, and set up an iPhone playable version of John Siracusa’s WWDC Bingo.
But wait! There’s more! I just put some finishing touches on a site that finally should be public after I had the idea for it almost a year ago. With luck, we’ll be launching this weekend, so stayed tuned.
And that’s just what I have going on. Nicole has a ton more on her side, and I’m pretty excited about the things she’s got coming up.
As a side note, I think this is the first time I’ve blogged from bed using my iPhone. It’s pretty slick.