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May 24, 2010

HTML5 at A List Apart: Something to pay attention to as HTML5 gains acceptance and compliance with modern browsers. Includes the brilliant A Brief History of Markup by Jeremy Keith. #

May 15, 2010

Malamanteau on Wikipedia: If you have ever wanted to know about the politics, policies, and just plain idiocy, read this article. Wait, you can’t, but you can click on the Discussion page. #

April 25, 2010

Press This Linklog Bookmarklet: This is for those of you wanting to use the ‘Press This’ javascript bookmarklet to create links to other sites (sort of like the Tumblr bookmarklet). It uses a modified version of the normal Press This script, with the addition of the ability to add something to one custom field. I use it for these link–posts. #

April 9, 2010

FoxTrot iPad wallpaper: Maybe I don’t really like the iPad all that much, but I do love FoxTrot. Get the comic–inspired Jobsian comic for your iPad. Also makes a great user icon for social networking sites for lazy Steve Jobs fans. #

Helvetireader²: Jon Hicks improves Helvetireader² so much, I switched to Google Reader. Yeah, Helvetireader² is that good. #

January 28, 2010

This is the link to a typical incendiary blog post: This is where I offer my opinion on the blog post linked and why you should read it, calling it “a wonderfully insightful look at the structure of blog posts, you should read it”. This is another sentence containing superfluous filler because I didn’t want to end the description of the linked post after only one sentence. This sentence was added because paragraphs have at least three sentences in them. This final sentence has no value at all. #

November 12, 2009

Send mail…through the mail!: Snail by Dustin Curtis is just what you stalkers have been looking for. Send actual pieces of paper to other people in the United States for only $2. #

November 5, 2009

Do websites need to be experienced exactly the same in every browser?: The answer surprised me. Not really. The site is, however, best experienced using a WebKit enabled browser. No bias, though, nope. #

Sketch2Photo: Internet Image Montage: Takes your rough sketch and turns it into a feasible image. I have no idea if this thing really works, but I can see how it would be a real boon to people using MySpace. #

Physical Storage vs. Digital Storage: Another nifty infographic describing just how technology has commenced over the past couple of decades. Really depressing to think about how I used to be forced to manually flip tapes to listen to the other side. #

October 7, 2009

Best AFLAC Trivia Question, Ever: Great question that totally stumped me. I had no idea even how to answer this one. You can tell the crew running the Braves games have a lot of time on their hands. #

October 6, 2009

The History of Web Browsers: Awesome pictorial history of what browsing the internet — er, Internet — looked like way back in the 1900s. I was disappointed that it was missing OmniWeb, but it wasn’t like every browser was going to make it in there. #

Explaining @font-face: Lengthy, helpful explanation of what the @font-face declaration in modern CSS is going to do for the web browsing experience. Shows just how far this thing has to go before it gets widespread use. #

October 1, 2009

Merlin Mann on modern Adobe products: Both comedy gold and incredible insight. Stuff like this makes it a must–read:
One (sometimes one of the extremely few) of the benefits of the annoyingly rabid Mac community is that we do talk to each other a lot, and we do absolutely have equivalents of pro wrestling’s faces and heels. Right now, Adobe is not regarded as a hero. No. Right now you’re the heavy guy from some country we don’t like who’s always with the folding chairs.
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September 28, 2009

What The Trend? explains why something trends on Twitter search: If this didn’t exist, then somebody would make it. I wonder how long until Twitter just goes ahead and makes something like this for themselves, instead of using another, unaffiliated site? Seems a useful extension of their real–time search product, to me. #

Google adds Hot Trends into Search: Always nice to see something useful added to Google Search results. While I don’t believe this will hurt the appeal of Twitter’s real–time search, it will help explain why people searched for those results. #

QuickCursor: It adds a service to 10.5 and 10.6 that lets you edit text in any application you desire. Useful if you don’t want Safari to crash while you’re working on a long email. I use something similar with Textmate, so I know this will help people out, once they get used to it. #

Big Text: Another Text Ascii Art Generator. I don’t know why, but I love these things. The drop–down list is a drag, though. #

September 26, 2009

Stainless: Minimalist new browser that seems to fit somewhere outside of Google Chrome and Safari. Supports something they call ‘parallel session’, or the ability to log into the same site with different credentials. #