April 2010
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The Generic Web Guy
In this day and age of blooming ICT businesses, what’s a web guy to refer to himself as? It seems that both “web designer” and “web developer” as terms have become muddled in recent years, with a tremendous amount of overlap in how they’re used and what they refer to.
To further confuse things, the web is now seen as an interface platform, both in the sense of...
March 2010
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Gizmodo: Mixr Shows the Delicious Promise of... →
So, sure, the iPad may just be an overgrown iPhone. But this teaser shot of Mixr, a fully-featured, multitouch DJ app, should give you a sense of just how awesome apps designed for an oversized iPhone can be.
The oft-recited mantra “it’s about the apps, stupid” rings true again. The iPad might technically be just an oversized iPod Touch, but four times the screen real-estate...
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The Opposite of Fitts' Law →
The issue of actions leading to data loss and their place in the overall UI is a point that’s come up quite often in some of the projects I’ve been involved in recently. Jeff Atwood raises some very good points about the placement of such UI elements. I don’t really use Gmail’s web interface (I mostly use my iPhone and Mail.app to access my Gmail account), so I never really...
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Photoshop CS5 Content Aware Fill
This video of Content Aware Fill, supposedly coming in Photoshop CS5, is a real shocker. This is photo retouching on autopilot, for actual-honest-to-goodness-real.
I’ve used Photoshop since version 4, and I don’t recall ever being this excited for an upcoming feature. Adobe, I don’t know how you came up with the math behind this wizardry, but… I love you. Adobe Systems,...
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Opera Bullish About App Store Submission
Opera Software submitted Opera Mini for iPhone to Apple for App Store approval and is now hosting a competition to promote the browser: whoever guesses closest as to how long it’ll take Apple to approve Opera Mini wins a brand new iPhone. Notable, although totally obvious in a PR sense: those silly Norwegians won’t let you guess “never”. You need to register for a My Opera...
MacUpdate Spring Bundle
I might have to take the plunge with MacUpdate’s Spring 2010 bundle if only for Hydra and Parallels Desktop 5. Considering they’re both $79 by themselves and the whole bundle is only $49.99, it doesn’t really matter if I never end up using any of the other apps included. And if I do, hey, bonus.
NYT: Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem →
The Museum of Modern Art in New York has deemed the symbol to meet its standards on form, function, values, cultural impact and innovation.
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USA Today: Teemu Selänne's 600th goal helps Ducks... →
The only other European-born players in the 600-goal club are Finnish countryman Jari Kurri (601) and the Czech Republic’s Jaromir Jagr (646).
Sorry, Flash, you're out of luck. →
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Kieksi.fi - A Weekend Project
On a moment’s impulse, I checked to see if my surname was available as a domain in .fi, .com and other assorted varieties, which it was. I’ve been looking to refresh my personal portfolio now that I’m more fluent in certain popular JS libraries. I’d also been looking to move under a more personal domain name as the Pixelcentric.net domain I’ve held for a number of...
January 2010
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Office Slave
Starting at my new job today, as web designer-slash-developer for Crasman Co Ltd in Helsinki. To say that I’m pretty excited to be given the opportunity would most certainly be a glorious understatement.
Tweet, Tweet
I keep trying Twitter on and off, but for some reason I just can’t get into tweeting. Maybe if I could figure out a way to tweet entries right into my weblog… hmm.
November 2006
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Visual Mathematician
I’m not necessarily the biggest believer in web tests, but this one is telling me something about myself that I already know, so I guess the test designers are on to something. I’m not so sure about the bit regarding “high intelligence”, however.
Your Intellectual Type is Visual Mathematician. This means you are gifted at spotting patterns — both in pictures and in numbers....
April 2006
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Boot Camp
Holy snikies, I guess I should be glad I didn’t bother with the EFI boot loader hackery needed for the third party Mac/WinXP dual boot solution…
Update: Typing this on my iMac running Windows XP. I have to say Apple made Boot Camp so painless it’s a guilty pleasure to install and boot Windows XP.
I installed WinXP onto a FAT32 partition so I could exchange files across the two...
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NYT Redesign
The New York Times has a new web layout. It’s still too damn busy, but they now make smarter use of horizontal space and meaningful spacing in general.
March 2006
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Video of Windows XP Booting on Intel iMac
This video hosted on Vimeo looks like pretty convincing proof that hacker duo narf2006 and blanka have successfully gotten Windows XP to boot on an Intel Core Duo iMac — which would mean they have a pretty strong case for OnMac.net’s $13,000 prize money for providing a Windows XP dualbooting solution for Intel based Macs… the word on the street is their method requires...
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C Stands For Crappy
CNet News.com is at it again. In the past few weeks CNet with the help of ZDNet has published a veritable flurry of fear, uncertainty and doubt against Mac OS security. A while ago they branded as viruses a pair of malicious scripts that either exploit already fixed security issues or require user action to actually do anything. They then claimed that a hacking contest involving a Mac thatgave out...
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DS Lite: The Screen Might Kill You
Check out this hilariously funny video review of the Nintendo DS Lite by Cabel of Panic, Inc. As for the device itself, I’m a bit concerned by the shape. Like the reworked Game Boy Advance, this design might feel a bit like holding those very square Nintendo 8-bit controllers all over again, but otherwise it seems like a very neat system.
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