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Sunday March 02, 2008

Getting Real


37 Signals' thoughts on web [app] development

Monday January 21, 2008

Friday September 21, 2007

Wednesday August 01, 2007

Friday June 01, 2007

Monday January 29, 2007

Rehabilitating Robert Moses


It's amazing what you can do if you just focus on what someone built, rather than on what he didn't allow to be built or the types of people (black and/or the poor) who he marginalised.

Thursday December 21, 2006

Are we being ripped off over software? | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology


"Any attempt to associate real value with what we buy in [aka pay for] software is probably doomed to failure"

Thursday November 30, 2006

Snapshot of the true content generators
Is the internet re-inventing photography, or vice versa?

Sunday November 26, 2006

Saturday November 25, 2006

Friday November 17, 2006

Give me back my GOOGLE

[via a.wholelottanothing.org]
Google results without all the bloody affiliate links [no kelkoo, pixmania, dealtime etc.].

Monday November 13, 2006

Check in, log on, fork out


aka the high cost of hotel WiFi.

Sunday November 12, 2006

Piracy losses fabricated - Aussie study


A draft study commissioned by the Australian Attorney General's office finds that the music and software industries attributes sales losses to piracy without any evidence to back their claims.

Wednesday November 08, 2006

Inside Aperture


A new O'Reilly site... [NB: the RSS feeds on the page don't link to the real Inside Aperture RSS feed...]

Wednesday August 30, 2006

Flickr-lag


Definition: The time difference between being somewhere and getting the photos on Flickr which causes some confusion in online conversations with friends.

Sunday August 20, 2006

Chuqui on Flickr and "Interestingness"


I don't particularly like Flickr's interestingness, but then that's because it doesn't like me [or my pictures].

Friday August 18, 2006

Saturday August 12, 2006

Thursday August 03, 2006

Tuesday August 01, 2006

Wednesday June 28, 2006

Flick'd Away


What happens when your Flickr Pro account expires? Where do all your pictures go??

Monday June 12, 2006

The Top Ten Truths About the Digital Ecosystem


10. Images are king...
1. Omnipresent distractions increase the need for inner peace.

Friday June 09, 2006

Tuesday June 06, 2006

What's your level of CSS knowledge?


What about HTML?? [5 and 5...]

Wednesday May 31, 2006

Top Ten Stock Photography Cliches

[via kottke]
Including "The Handshake of Synergy", "The Big Thumbs of Triumph" and my favourite, "The Flirty Customer Service Gal"...

World Cup Blog


Not one, not two but 33 bloggers [one per team, plus one for the referees]...

Sunday May 28, 2006

Websites as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet
200605271858
This would be dere-street.com... looks nice, just don't ask what it means.

Saturday May 27, 2006

JPEG patent thrown into doubt
That nasty thing called prior art raises its head yet again...

Monday April 17, 2006

CSS Tweak a web based CSS tweaker
You upload your CSS file, and it tweaks it according to your specifications.
CSS source ordered 1-3 columned page maker generator form
You tell it what you want your page to look like, and it comes back with the CSS you need. Simple.

Saturday January 21, 2006

Introducing the Web Inspector for Safari
"The Web Inspector lets you browse the live DOM hierarchy in a compact HUD style window, catering to the needs of web developers and WebKit hackers alike."

Tuesday January 17, 2006

Thursday January 12, 2006

The Feed Factory
The place where you find the BBC's RSS feeds.

Sunday January 08, 2006

Friday January 06, 2006

Tuesday December 27, 2005

One in five blogs is a spam blog (or splog)
Only one out of five?? That's all??

Saturday December 24, 2005

John Battelle on the future of online search
"I think the hardest thing in the world is how to ask the right question, it is not how to find the answer"

Saturday December 17, 2005

Monday December 12, 2005

Friday December 09, 2005

Google users not your average Internet users
More likely to be from higher income households and to be veteran internet users...

Monday October 31, 2005

Tuesday October 18, 2005

Saturday October 15, 2005

New on Flickr: Camera-Tossing [via tpwireservice]
When exactly are you supposed to catch the camera though...?

Wednesday October 12, 2005

Tuesday October 11, 2005

ColorBlender.com
Yet another online colour blender/palette maker.

Friday April 15, 2005

Thursday April 14, 2005

Saturday April 02, 2005

Yahoo launches a Creative Commons search engine
This lets you search for things by license - so you could find images that you could freely re-use, rather than find images and then have to try and negotiate re-use rights. That being said, I still get people asking me if they can use my photos even though every one is labelled with a pretty obvious license... [via Boing Boing]

Tuesday February 08, 2005