May 2007
VIDEO: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 1...
First video of historic Gates/Jobs appearance is live at allthingsd.com. (via News dugg by lseeley)
New York Gets Decent Street Furniture
New bus stops and news stands are popping up all over New York. They are designed by Nicholas Grimshaw Architects and made by 95% recycled material. NICE! (via News dugg by lseeley)
Typography Music Video Created in Flash - by Brian...
A sweet flash animation featuring Obadiah Parker’s cover of Outkast’s “Hey Ya”. Good music, and hypnotizing moving words. How can you beat that? (via News dugg by lseeley)
YouTube Coming Soon To Apple TV
Steve Jobs at the D5 conference: “Wouldn’t it be great if you could see YouTube in your livingroom? YOUTUBE ON APPLE TV?” (via News dugg by lseeley)
Apple Introduces 160GB Apple TV for $399
In the press released for YouTube videos for Apple TV, Apple also reveals that they will be introducing a 160GB Apple TV for $399.Apple TV, which includes the Apple Remote, is available through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple�s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested ret… (via News dugg by lseeley)
Review: iTunes Plus launches to a traffic crunch,...
Apple officially launched the DRM-free version of its music store this morning to technical difficulties and a traffic crunch. We got our hands on it, however, and managed to make it through to DRM-free bliss, but not without problems. (via News dugg by lseeley)
iTunes library updated to DRM-free iTunes Plus...
It’s been a long time coming. So how could we resist giving the new higher quality, DRM free iTunes Plus music service a whirl? After all, we’re geeks, and loaded with all kinds of audio devices (not just iPods or Macs and PCs running iTunes) which we’d like to make use of with our purchased media. Certainly you’ve heard of the Zune, Xbox 360, PS3, (via News dugg by...
Pixelmator: a new image editor with breathtaking...
“features powerful selection, painting, retouching, navigation, and color correction tools, and layers-based image editing, GPU-powered image processing, color management, automation, and transparent HUD user interface for work with images.” (via News dugg by lseeley)
Build a Tetris DVD (or book) shelf
This instructable will involve creating a DVD/book shelf that is stackable in any number of configurations. You may recognize these pieces from something ;) This tutorial borrows the various pieces from Tetris and allows you to make a unique… (via News dugg by lseeley)
12 Tips for Mac OS X Address Book
The Mac OS X Address Book has loads of features that are often overlooked by most users. Here are a few tips to save you time and let you make the most of Address Book. Includes how to share your contacts, search for attachments they sent you, merge duplicate entries, and automatically put contacts’ sites in your Safari Bookmarks Bar. (via News dugg by lseeley)
What the YouTube Player Redesign SHOULD Look Like...
When I heard that YouTube was redesigning their player’s look, I got really excited. I was hoping for some simpler, more professional controls that were light on the eyes and easier to use. Unfortunately, all they did was move around the graphics and add a dock. So, I opened up Photoshop and tried to make something better. (via News dugg by lseeley)
Not So Obvious Photo Editor on Mac OS X
Go under Macintosh HD, Developer, applications, then click Core Image Fun House. This fun little application isn’t in your applications folder. It lets you add some pretty cool photobooth effects and unique ones to any photo you choose. Won’t replace Photoshop but still it’s still nice to know. (via News dugg by lseeley)
Best Cursor Ever!
Words cannot describe this. (via News dugg by lseeley)
Digg Exposé
Digg API Contest Finalist: This project takes snap(.com) shots of pages from Digg and displays them in a configurable exposé © view. Drag the images around, sort them, or change the category. Enjoy. By: Hart Woolery (hartw) (via News dugg by lseeley)
Digg Charts
Digg API Contest Finalist: Flex application that generates charts comparing popular stories. Additionally, a graph is generated showing a selected story’s popularity over time. The user view allows viewing a user’s popular submitted stories. By: Ryan Robinson (rr525356) (via News dugg by lseeley)
DiggCity
Digg API Contest Finalist: Digg City shows the 10 newest popular stories. The more popular the story gets, the taller the building. When someone diggs the story, a stick figure representing that user is added. This stick figure will then go inside the building or story that he has just Dugg. By: Chris Alvares (xGrill) (via News dugg by lseeley)
An Organic Gem Grown Within Oysters
A lot has happened during these last few weeks between posts. Mostly, I’ve been busy with Metalab, helping develop the website for the new start-up, Mogulus, that lets users create “TV Channels” online using their own content and content from YouTube. I recommend applying for access to the Beta1 site.
Also, during these past few weeks, I replaced my two-year-old cellphone with the very new and...
Preview of Firefox with OS X native form widgets
As we’ve mentioned before, the forthcoming Firefox 3 will feature OS X native form widgets on the Mac. If you’d like to see what they’re going to look like, Josh Aas has produced a preview build for Intel Macs (no PPC yet, though the final build will be Universal). (via News dugg by lseeley)
Apple iPhone vs. Palm Treo 700p
This article takes an in-depth look at the soon-to-be-released iPhone and compares many of its features to a phone that you can purchase today. The findings may surprise you. (via News dugg by lseeley)
60 Elegant and Visually Appealling Designs
Another great list from SmashingMagazine where you’ll find 60 fresh, elegant, professional and visually appealling designs, which pay close attention to details and manage to remain simple, user-friendly and nice-looking. (via News dugg by lseeley)
Tabbed Navigation Using CSS
This tutorial will teach you how to create low-bandwidth tab navigation on a web page using CSS. As an extra bonus you’ll also learn how to switch tabs without loading the page more than once. (via News dugg by lseeley)
Interview with Will Shipley of Delicious Monster
An interview with Will Shipley, one of the founders of the hugely successful Omni Group, and now the “Chief Exectutive Monster” of another hugely successful Mac software maker Delicious Monster, developer of the benevolent Delicious Library. Even comment for your chance to win a copy! (via News dugg by lseeley)
Give your photos a Hollywood effect (Photoshop)
At first glance there’s a lot of steps here, but it’s pretty straightforward, and the effect is very cool. It’s an easy way to give your photographs a bit more visual impact, that’s for sure. —via lifehacker. (via News dugg by lseeley)
flickrSLiDR launched
Created by Paul Stamatiou, flickrSLiDR allows you to easily embed the classic flickr slideshows on your website or blog. All you need to do is enter the flickr URL address of the user, photo set or group you would like to embed along with some options. You’ll receive the HTML embed code in return. (via News dugg by lseeley)
Sue me first, Microsoft!
To show that Microsoft’s “Be very afraid” campaign did not work on us, we are challenging MS to sue us first regarding alleged patent infringements we are committing. Read more at the above URL, or add your name and email to the list here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php?title=Sue_me_first_Microsoft_list (via News dugg by lseeley)
One Of The Coolest Monitors I've Ever Seen!!
Dell ultra-thin LCD monitor!! (via News dugg by lseeley)
Engadget Responds to yesterday's Apple news
“The question we faced at that moment was: Do we run with the story without Apple’s comment or not? The answer seemed fairly clear there, too, at the time. We possessed what confirmed Apple employees believed was an internal Apple memo that with absolutely no doubt had also been received by any number of other Apple employees. ” (via News dugg by lseeley)
10 Nightmare Web Design Clients
Designers, you know what I’m talking about. Ten anecdotes about web design clients or enquirers who were stupid, silly or downright weird. Maybe all three. Feel free to add your own stories. (via News dugg by lseeley)
VW Golf GTI W12 650 Concept (With Video!)
At the Worthersee 2007 meet for VW enthusiasts, Volkswagon pulled the wraps off the GTI W12 650 concept. A 6.0L biturbo 12 cylinder sits behind the front seats, dishing 650 horses to the rear wheels. Top speed is said to be over 200 mph, and it goes from 0-62 in 3.7 seconds. Video of its public debut is included. (via News dugg by lseeley)
25 Killer Code Snippets every Good Designer Should...
Round up 25 of the Best CSS, scripts, html, javascript, Ajax and widgets that you can use on on your website or blog (Part 5) ….. (via News dugg by lseeley)
20 of the best Free Photoshop Plugins and Filters...
Plugins and filters extend Photoshop by providing new funtionality and effects that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to achieve or by simplifying a process - here we round up the best Freebies (via News dugg by lseeley)
Speed matters. Why don't other sites get this?
I spend a lot of time optimizing our site for speed - and the customer payoff is huge. I spend almost as much time wishing other sites would do the same thing. Alexa says our pages take .9 seconds, median, to load. Let’s see how the other big photo sharing sites stack up, shall we? (via News dugg by lseeley)
Rediscovering The Button Element
“…and the biggest loser of them all in the battle for a standardized look is the infamous Submit button.” (via News dugg by lseeley)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Lists and...
Step by step CSS list tutorials, this takes you through the process of building background image lists, rollover lists, nested lists and horizontal lists. (via News dugg by lseeley)
Apple Releases New MacBooks
As predicted, Apple released revised MacBooks today.Apple(R) today updated its MacBook(R) consumer notebooks with faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 1GB of memory and larger hard drives in every model. The MacBook is just one-inch thin and features built-in 802.11n wireless networking for up to fiv… (via News dugg by lseeley)
52 Ways to Speed Up OS X
“After Apple recently announced a delay to OS X 10.5 Leopard I had to delay my iMac upgrade until the Autumn. This led me to thinking about how to speed up Tiger to get the most out of my ageing G5.” (via News dugg by lseeley)
BBC: Web 2.0 'distracts good design'
Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said. (via News dugg by lseeley)
"That commercial seems familiar" - (Compare it...
Euro 2012 organisers appear to have borrowed a little too much from the Apple ads unveiled at MWSF 07….. Painful faithful to the originals in many, many ways. (via News dugg by lseeley)
[Pic] Evolution
It’s not the one you already know. (via News dugg by lseeley)