Category Archives: Design

ExpanDrive - UI Proposal

I quickly mocked up a few changes I’d like to see in ExpanDrive :
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 [...]

HTML 5 Linking Demo

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 [...]

And for my third trick…

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

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 [...]

Leopard Spaces Background

After getting annoyed with the fact that Spaces doesn’t use desktop image for the background of the individual spaces, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to set that quite yet, I decided to avoid the weird disconnect, I’d set my desktop to the gradient that Spaces uses.
Here you go… in 1280×1024:

and in [...]

iPhone Bingo

I started putting something together.
After John Siracusa announced the One True Card for 2008, I wondered why he didn’t link to the iPhone version like he did last year. I figured it out, though, once I remembered last years MacWorld the iPhone was still a dream. How did we live before these things?
In any [...]

Ready For iPhone - The Badge.

With all the general grumble about the Safari-is-the-SDK-for-the-iPhone on the internet, I figure that… hey, if the internet *is* where all the iPhone apps are, all web apps are iPhone apps. So, I made a badge.

Feel free to include this image on your Safari Testedâ„¢ blog (or web app) if you feel like Steve is [...]

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