January 2012
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“Let’s pause for a moment to give a quick background on what we’re talking about...”
– Pixar and RenderMan: Changing the distributed rendering game « Icrontic
It’s great to see Bobby Miller writing about 3D again, he’s one of the finest gentleman you’ll ever meet and he knows way too much about GPUs.
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WatchThe only thing more awesome than the 3D in Paul Clements’s headphones video is the breakdown:
Staggering. I don’t want to even think about setting up those rigs, particles, dynamics and deformers, nevertheless animating them.
December 2011
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Workspace | Trent Walton →
When was the last time you put this much work into a blog post? It’s incredible that he creates a whole new design for each post.
Scroll through the previous posts.
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“Tweetie was an amazing iPhone app. And part of what made it such a great Twitter...”
– A Few Thoughts on the New, New Twitter — Shawn Blanc
This direction has been clear for a while now, it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.
Their challenge is finding a way to monetize to survive. They must have huge operating costs and yes, people to pay but they have to do it without...
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Made by Hand →
Great short documentary about the incredible craftsmanship of writer turned knife maker Joel Bukiewicz.
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“My Kindle has always had annotation backups on, and it’s always on Wi-Fi. I...”
– Michael Tsai - Blog - Kindle Annotations Lost in Book Update
Hmm, seems like it’s time to look for 3rd party tools more ubiquitous without the chance of losing your info. About that…
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“Whether you prefer the newest version, Final Cut Pro X, or the previous...”
– Five Best Video Editors | Lifehacker Australia
There are some real gems in here.
(Via: Mike Jones)
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“SugarDev.sugar
The SugarDev.sugar adds CodeSense for Sugar XML elements and...”
– SugarDev.sugar | Espresso Wiki
Espresso now has sugar to help you make sugar, a bit obvious but handy.
Espresso is still my favorite text editor, especially with CSSEdit merged in. I adore it. Just wish I did more coding these days so I could use it.
November 2011
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Breevy →
onethingwell:
Breevy is a text expander for Windows that helps you type faster and more accurately by allowing you to abbreviate long words and phrases.
It’s compatible with TextExpander for the Mac and iOS, including snippet synchronisation.
I adore Breevy. It’s great to have my snippets working on both platforms and makes transitioning back and forth much more seamless. The...
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“Fast forward to today. The Kindle fire reviews are pouring in and it looks like...”
– isaiah’s weblog: One to one.
Interesting observation on the Kindle Fire, I’m surprised Amazon didn’t work very hard to make sure there was no lag. Since the first Kindle users have hated the wait turning pages but they were limited by the E ink technology. Speeds have progressively...
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“Another iPhone Template?
There are a lot of those templates out there, but for...”
– Marshall Bock’s Blog: iPhone 4S Template
These look lovely.
via TThor - Issue 15 — which is, by the way, an essential subscription for anyone who cares about design.
October 2011
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“Worse, indiscriminate use of Due dates dilutes their value and undermines any...”
– All OmniFocus scripts updated for a “Start-based” workflow | bylr.net
Both insightful and brilliant. I’m definitely going to give this workflow a try, I might just get along better with OmniFocus too.
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“Answer: No. Clearly, the iPhone 4S was a single rather than a home run. But...”
– New iPhone Blues: Why Apple’s CEO Doesn’t Care What You Hoped To See
I needed a chuckle this morning. Definitely saving this for claim chowder.
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“I will not regret things professionally. The scoop was big. People loved it. If...”
– Steve Jobs Was Always Kind To Me (Or, Regrets of An Asshole) | The Wirecutter
I wasn’t a fan of how Gizmodo handled the iPhone 4 scandal, I still think nearly every decision they made was wrong and they hurt too many people over the course along the way.
Maybe I’m naive, maybe Brian...
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“Steve Jobs didn’t invent the Mac on his own. He didn’t invent the iPhone or the...”
– The Macalope Daily: Giant | Computers | MacUser | Macworld
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“Earlier in the day, before Gates arrived, I did a solo onstage interview with...”
– The Steve Jobs I Knew - Walt Mossberg - Mossblog - AllThingsD
I’ve always been amazed that Gates and Jobs did that live interview together. Two of the most influential men of our time and very strong competitors had the grace and dignity come face to face despite the rocky start.
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“10:34AM - Side note! We’re doing a TON of traffic right now, which is awesome!...”
– Live Apple iPhone 5 event coverage – gdgt live
Can’t believe how hard traffic is hitting everyone!
September 2011
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Adobe Edge Prototype Demo →
adobegripes:
Looks impressive but from the demo the UI appears to be Air or similar to the Flash parts of the Flash IDE, judging from the dodgy tooltips and font rendering. Now thats perfectly fine for a prototype, but from my experiences with the non-native elements of the Flash UI and the Fireworks UI are horrible to work in.
I’m not saying all UIs should be Aqua or Aero, I mean I love the...
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“An online group of gamers has correctly deduced the structure of an enzyme that...”
– Gamers Solve Stubborn Viral Mystery: The Shape Of A Key Enzyme : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
Absolutely fascinating. I’ve believed that gaming forces you to develop problem solving skills and helps you to adopt creative, unconventional perspectives to work through challenges posed by...
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“A fair question to ask is whether or not moderate amounts of alcohol are really...”
– Another Study Shows A Glass of Wine A Day Keeps The Doc Away | Singularity Hub
I love it when research tells me to drink more (often).
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“Paying homage to the colorful world of comic books, superheroes and...”
– Business Blog / The Colors of Good vs. Evil: Comic Book Color Palettes [infographic] by COLOURlovers :: COLOURlovers
An incredibly fascinating look at colors used in comic books. I love that the infographic covers the changes in time, the difference between DC and Marvel and the colors most often...
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“The Yahoo comparison makes sense the way Elgan constructs it, but I think it’s...”
– Coyote Tracks: Why Facebook is the New Yahoo
I don’t agree with Elgan, it seems like a very stretched and somewhat fallacious comparison right now but I love this gem from Watts Martin. It feels like Facebook is trying so hard to look ‘open’ with all their apps, API’s and...
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“But at a technical level, is this really something Adobe should be crowing...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Machinarium, iPad Game Built With Adobe Air
This is exactly right. There’s no reason that a game like Machinarium couldn’t run on hardware that powers extraordinarily detailed games like Infinity Blade or Dead Space.
It may make economical sense to use a...
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8bit Deus Ex: Human Revolution →
eidosmontreal:
Ok, ok! Now this, is freakin GOLD!!! 8bit #DXHR. It’s the Sarif Manufacturing plant level. Every detail is in there. Well done buddy! :D
Whoa, this is awesome!
However, there doesn’t seem to be any attribution on the original post so I’m just linking to this instead of reblogging the image.
August 2011
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Why Markdown? A two-minute explanation - Brett... →
[via Chartier | 1FPS]
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“The Matt Gemmell Daily
… is not here. It doesn’t exist. You were probably...”
– The Matt Gemmell Daily
I haven’t used Paper.li (yet) but there are so so many apps and services trying to solve the problem of aggregating news from your networks and presenting it to you in a tasteful way. Unfortunately, many of them share the problems that Matt Gemmell describes.
And...
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“In a normal world, writing favorably about Apple would just be common sense, as...”
– The Macalope Weekly: Gotta know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em | Macworld
Certainly one of best Macalope Weeklies in recent memory (they’re all delightful).
I’ve always felt that the term ‘fanboy’ doesn’t belong in any conversation, if it...
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“I wish the rest of the world worked like the web. “Pay for a Big Mac? It should...”
– Rene Ritchie
It’s soul-suckingly funny because it’s painfully true. (via chartier)
Nailed it.
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“It’s only “easier to defend a patent lawsuit” if you have infinite money to give...”
– http://www.marco.org/2011/08/12/nilay-patel-the-patent-system-isnt-broken
This is precisely the problem with the patent minefield the United States Patent and Trademark Office has created for us. It’s next to impossible to not violate someone’s patent and there’s no way a lot of...
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“Likewise the design of these pages has come to serve the needs of the...”
– A web designed for reading / from a working library
Great article on Readability. I’m fairly new to Mandy Brown’s writing but I’m really enjoying her articulate writings on the experience of reading.
July 2011
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June 2011
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“This is Apple’s forte. The company typically re-asks old questions and comes up...”
– Apple stopped innovating with the iPhone. You’re welcome. - Apple
Brad’s analysis is pretty astute, if not entirely surprising. iOS 5 is not innovative in the strictly original sense. None of the major features are totally new ideas. The innovation is all in the details and the near perfect...
The Difference Between Microsoft Keynotes And... →
parislemon:
One is gaudy, tacky. The other? Understated, elegant.
I frankly don’t think this is fair. It would be one thing to pit the Apple keynote against a Windows keynote at a developer convention. It’s a totally different thing to compare it against a press oriented gaming event.
It’s fun to point at Microsoft and write them off but you’re comparing two...