Archive for the 'tech' Category

Usability issues, when lives depend
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

I tried to give blood today. Although I’m a registered donor I haven’t been for quite some time, not since they turned me away for being anemic. Times have changed since then, you no longer get a free tub of Ben and Jerry’s ice-cream, and it isn’t against campus equal opportunities law to advertise the [...]

links for 2008-01-11
Friday, January 11th, 2008

shiyuan.co.uk
Beautiful art portfolio, including awesome heat sensitive wallpaper and exquisitely delicate pre-cut origami calender - found via Mike Stenhouse sharing on Google Reader
(tags: art design portfolio)

Nokia perfects the clicky tactile touchscreen - iPhone gnashes teeth, swears revenge - The Red Ferret Journal
Nokia have developed a touch screen that allows for 1mm movement when pressed, [...]

Poorly Macbook, ineffective error message design
Friday, January 11th, 2008

I am lost without my beautiful black macbook. After it ‘bOrk3d’ itself late on New Years Day (I understand tis the season) I have been stuck with my old windows machine. I don’t have any of my programs or saved passwords, I cant type on this keyboard, I miss quicksilver and the system-wide spell checker [...]

So I totally forgot to mention …
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Drew and Brian did a fantastic job last December with their organisation and editorial skills for the annual magazine 24ways. I was very honoured to be asked again to contribute to the 2007 issue.
Natalie Downe sets the presses rolling with an in-depth look at the state of print stylesheets in 2007. Often neglected by developers [...]

New Year, New Job, New adventures
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

This year has started pretty nicely, we have just returned from a lovely weekend away in our University town of Bath, meeting up with old friends, haunting old haunts. Organised by Laura, most of our old gang were there, it really was great to see people again.

We finally made the time to go to the [...]

links for 2008-01-07
Monday, January 7th, 2008

Refresh Finder 1.2.3 - MacUpdate
Handy little button that lets you refresh the finder window, useful if you are making changes elsewhere
(tags: software mac tools)

Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard
Easily create custom applications for your favorite sites, keep them quarantined! (like Prism but more native to Mac OSX Leopard)
(tags: software [...]

links for 2007-12-11
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Here Comes Another Bubble - The Richter Scales
This is very funny indeed
(tags: funny video)

UPDATE: The above has been removed from youTube but can still be found at Valleywag

links for 2007-12-01
Saturday, December 1st, 2007

24 ways: Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6
Drews fantastic article about transparent png’s in IE6 kick starts the 24ways engine for this year
(tags: 24ways browser reference 24way07 drewmclellan)

Google Analytics Integration with jQuery
interesting plugin, I know there are some issues with file downloads and google analytics being used the old fashioned way
(tags: google javascript jquery)

Wufoo · [...]

links for 2007-11-28
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Panic - CandyBar 3 - Change and Organize Your Mac OS X Icons and Dock
Beautiful! Panic make lovely websites and lovely webapps, Candybar 3 for customising your Leopard dock has just been released
(tags: graphics mac interface webdesign)

Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » JavaScript shortcut notations that shouldn’t be black magic to the “average [...]

links for 2007-10-22
Monday, October 22nd, 2007

3spots: del.icio.us as color tool
(tags: colorscheme community color howto)

Background Image Maker
(tags: graphics javascript images webdesign tools)

YouTube - Eddie Izzard- Death Star Canteen