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A very beautiful, self-contained RapidWeaver theme. Gorgeous layout with solid support for Blog and Download pages in addition to the staple Photo and Movie pages that typically fit a format like this.
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I <3 this drop-shadow
It’s this kind of attention to detail—and the founder’s own excitement over it (yes, that david founded Tumblr)—that I love about this service and the people behind it.
And I have to agree: that is one of the most magnificent and photo-realistic drop shadows I’ve ever seen, and it’s on the drop-down menu of a social media app.
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Iconfactory : Freeware : Refresh Trek
New celebratory set of folder icons for Mac OS X and Windows, complete with an obligatory CandyBar container.
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2010 Toyota Prius revealed more in YouTube video - Autoblog
Auto makers are finally bringing hybrid car aesthetics out of the drab, “practical” trenches.
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Tweetie is hailed as one of the best Twitter iPhone clients, and I cautiously agree. It has a gorgeous, iChat-like UI and a healthy dose of features like viewing replies, trending topics, and search. But Tweetie wastes a lot of UI space and its affinity for shifting back and forth through screens really annoys me. Want to visit a link someone tweeted? You’ll have to tap the tweet to shift to a new screen, then tap the link (now that it’s accessible) to shift to yet another screen with a built-in browser.
Look at Twitterrific’s spectacular and condensed—but not cramped—UI. Now look at the reply and star controls that Twittelator embeds on every tweet, minimizing the need to bounce around between screens for functionality. All those saved taps really add up after a while, and so does all the space that Tweetie’s UI wastes.
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Almasjed, The Mosque on Vimeo
Impressive 3D work from Ali Almasabi, a student of the Digital Animation Center at the University of Colorado at Denver, my alma mater. I ran into Ali a few times but never hung out with him or got to know many others in the department. I regret it.
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I think it’s fairly safe to say that the age of “computers should be difficult to use just because” is finally coming to an end with 2008. Apple’s trademark obsession with simplicity and design is now appreciated by a respectable portion of the mainstream, Windows 7 shows that Microsoft is finally reacting to the fire that’s been under its ass for some time, and even Ubunutu has emerged as a Linux distro that is known for its ease of use.
Can you imagine what the world would have been like if the typical culture around cars or houses was that you had to buy individual parts from no-name retailers, take a class just to learn how to make a car’s steering wheel work, or settle for flashing banner ads across your house’s roof and front door?
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Clever concept: a real world web design sketchbook with images of web browser windows on its pages. It’ll be on sale soon, but it doesn’t seem like you can customize the browser; it’s Firefox 3 for Mac.
via ISO50
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Clever trick, Apple. If a customer visits a URL for a previous generation iPod, say, the apple.com/iPodmini, Apple redirects visitors to its “Which iPod are you?” page instead of throwing a worthless error page.
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”The way Apple stays ahead of the web app trend is by creating native Cocoa experiences that can’t be duplicated in web apps — both on the Mac and iPhone.
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Microsoft: Expect Fewer Phones With Windows - NYTimes.com
Well color me surprised, old dogs can learn new tricks:
The decision by Microsoft comes as phone users are getting more discerning about the ease of use of their phones, and the breadth of capabilities. Microsoft has a particular challenge in that unlike some competitors, it does not control both the hardware and the software. By contrast, Apple designs both the hardware and software for the iPhone, while Palm today announced a new device, the Pre, and also makes the operating system, WebOS.
Translation: After years of unfulfilled promises, there are now smartphones on the market like the iPhone that consumers are buying in droves because they don’t suck. Micorosft has finally noticed its ass is smoking, and one of the best ways to stifle the flame is to fix the problem we’ve all been warning about for years: too many form factors (that only serve niche-within-niche markets anyway) leads to a crummy platform that is a drag to develop for and use.
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I wish Mac OS X’s “Hide Others” window command only applied to visible windows in the current Space, not all Spaces.
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Oh god. It must be someone’s 20% time project to [screw] up every favicon at Google.](http://29.media.tumblr.com/u8TZn2GMOik3eb4ucEAeiKdGo1_400.png)
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Facebook Faced of the Day: Clever boy.
[lamebook.]
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Now testing: Direct video uploads
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This little script is dangerous. It will destroy every Tumblr post in a given blog.
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