July 2008
61 posts
iPhone-optimised interface for Tumblr sites →
Matthew “Tumblr Whisperer” Buchanan has created a way to iPhoneize your tumblr site. Very bloody awesome!
BIG GIANT HELVETICA →
your text in helvetica.
Letterpress From Scratch →
The I Love Typography blog is awesome - and this is yet another reason why.
Ubuntu man challenges open source to out-pretty... →
Mark Shuttleworth spoke recently at O’Reilly Open Source Convention. He urged the community to help build an open source desktop that will be more beautiful than Apple’s. They may achieve that but the problem of industry standard applications still remain: I wont be able to run Photoshop and other design industry standards applications on Linux. Wine is closing that gap but...
The Five Dollar Comparison →
A collection of photos of things that cost $5. Using the flickr API, of course!
Exclusive: Inside the Lego Factory →
Fascinating! A three part video showing the creation of the Lego bricks. From raw plastic granules to the final packaged product.
Google Docs Templates →
creative scrape →
By the people who brought you Twistori creative scrape is a mosaic type affair or RSS feed images. There is also a Mac screensaver.
TuneUp iTunes plugin →
This plugin adds some very needed missing features to iTunes. Cleans your mislabeled music, downloads album artwork from either Google or Amazon, adds gig information, and provides more information about your music - ala Amarok. Unfortunately it’s only available for Windows. the Mac very will be available later this year so make sure you bookmark this one.
“We introduced a feature called Track close to a year ago because we recognized...”
– Twitter Blog: Finding A Perfect Match
“Mad Men takes place in 1960. Just seventeen years later, I went to work at a...”
– Design Observer
WatchNorman Cook, AKA Fatboy Slim, AKA Brighton Port Authority has a pretty catchy tune with an even more catchy music vid. May be slightly NSFW
Invade New Zealand →
via Terrence Wood
Opera Web Standards Curriculum →
I’m not a fan of the Opera browser…I understand that it probably leads the way as far as supporting Web Standards, but it just seems WAY too geeky for my liking. What I do like about Opera is their complete commitment to the Web Standards movement as is further illustrated by this: The Opera Web Standards Curriculum!
Use Tabs in Textmate for Files Opened Via... →
Total sweetness! This is what I’ve wanting for quite some time. I love it when two of my favorite apps play together well :D
Photoshop Video - PSDTUTS on Vimeo →
The great Photoshop tutorial site PSD Tuts has started a Vimeo channel. Video tutorials FTW!
“The plans announced yesterday were paltry, aimed at no-one in particular,...”
– Peter weighs in on the iPhone/Vodafone pricing uproar.
The Flickr Collection on Getty Images →
IE6 Independence? →
At least the trends are going in the right direction..IE down; FF up. Windows down; Mac up.
“Overall, the process was something of a roller coaster ride and certainly left...”
– Scott Hansen talks through the making of The Obama Print
NZ iPhone 3G plans at CrunchGear →
“But if the work is good, don’t the clients know it when they see...”
– Design Observer
“Vodafone Iphone 2 year cost of ownership - $6199”
– Twitter / Dave
vodafone - Summize →
General feeling is that Vodafone are raping up with a smile on their face!
iPhone 3G Plans from Vodafone NZ, Prepay iPhone... →
37signals phasing out support for IE 6 →
Another interesting decision. First MobileME, now 37Signals…I hope we’ll be able to do the same very soon!
WatchThe Clangers Guide to Microformats (via All in the head)
