October 2007
83 posts
Chain Restaurants: How Many Quarter Pounders From... →
oh my!
Flat input buttons in Leopard? Here's why. →
Turns out in Safari 3 if you assign a background color to inputs the browser removes the aqua style button and uses the flat-button style to replicate the color you’re after.
“Leopard is the only OS on the planet that works effortlessly and intuitively in...”
– (via PC Mag)
The HIG still matters, even with special effects →
Changes to the Dock in Leopard do not follow the Human Interface Guidelines
Fastest PC Notebook of 2007 is a Mac!?! →
Bwahaha!
I Have a New Favorite Web Browser: Flock →
Praise be to Yojimbo!
For making this reformat install less of a nightmare. Buy Yojimbo now.
Obama to Reporter: I'm Sorry for "Messing Up Your... →
Ironically names Nicklaus Lovelady lambasted Obama for ruining his chances with a love interest working for a rival paper. Barack Obama called to apologize. (via MotherJones)
NetApp Versus Sun, Sun Versus NetApp, and Both... →
Jason Hoffman on the NetApp/Sun spat.
Is it really legal for Apple to refuse cash for...
The answer is YES
NBC Teaches Personal Finance Lessons On "30 Rock"
Jack: So Liz, what are you going to do with all that money? Put it in your 401(k)?
Liz: Yeah, um... I gotta get one of those.
Jack: Where do you invest your money?
Liz: I've got 12 grand in checking.
Jack: Are you an immigrant?
Twitter / luke0x: just got done taping a segment... →
WTF!?! Man, Luke is cool.
“If you don’t back up daily — or at least very regularly — you’re foolish.”
– Daring Fireball
Common Usability Terms, pt. I →
Aperture 1.5.6 →
Updates are always welcome. 130MB whoa.
KPBS' "my map" of the fire damage →
Google Maps + people power makes for an incredible resource.
Joyent DTrace Probes in Apple's Leopard →
Joyent is pleased to have contributed the DTrace probes for Ruby that are used in Leopard
The Extent of the Fires - The New York Times →
Awesome info graphic.
“TaskPaper’s strength is that it lets you focus on crossing out those tasks...”
– Scott McNulty on TaskPaper 1.0 (via Daring Fireball)
My Google Ranking is 8/10
That’s higher than daringfireball.net, and engadget.com (both 7/10). I get only a tiny fraction of these site’s traffic, yet my ranking is higher. I can only attribute this to the templates I made, and gave away, for Manila Sites (5-3 years ago). Many of them had links that pointed back to bryanbell.com
The Weapon of choice for Sun Microsystems security... →
See here.
Gmail Gets IMAP →
Huge news. This makes Gmail much more attractive to those using a desktop email client — or to anyone reading mail from an iPhone. (via Daring Fireball)
5 Expenses You Can't Afford If You Have Credit... →
Had a good time...
…chatting with some British travelers this weekend. They are Eriba Caravan enthusiasts, and were smitten with my Airstream-Bambi.
“Anorak”
Definition: (U.K.) obsessive enthusiast: a boring, unfashionable, or studious person, especially somebody who is excessively devoted to a hobby or interest ( humorous ) (via Greg)
Be an “Anorak”, embrace “The New Sincerity”
A cultural movement defined by dicta including “Maximum Fun” and “Be More Awesome.” It celebrates outsized celebration of joy, and rejects irony, and particularly ironic appreciation of cultural products. (via wikipedia)
checking out Yosemite today
weather is great!
HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works! →
Cool Site
NPR : Keeping Friends Close and Enemies Online →
If Facebook can help you manage friendships, why not connect online with the people you hate? Enemybook is one of several new online programs that spoof Facebook. Kevin Matulef, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student who designed the program, talks to Alex Cohen. (listen here)
Mac U.S. Market Share Is Up →
Gartner’s and IDC’s numbers don’t match, but both agree that Apple is now #3 in unit sales, behind only Dell and HP. (Apple will drop back to #4 after Acer’s acquisition of Gateway is complete.) But the most important thing to remember is that Apple isn’t really after raw market share; they don’t offer any bargain PCs. The entirety of Apple’s market share is in the middle and high end of the...
Free? Steal It Anyway →
“Piracy, it seems, is about more than price. That’s one of the surprising discoveries to come out of an experiment by the British band Radiohead last week.” (via Forbes)
Apple adds 2 million more iTunes Plus tracks →
So nice!
Steve Jobs Announces 3rd Party SDK for iPhone for... →
HAHA, Suckit iTards!
East Germany propaganda book
Dr. Monkey says: “I scanned in yesterday a propaganda book about people who used to love living in East Germany before the collapse of the Wall and Communism. It was put out in 1985 and I bought it a few years ago in a thrift store in Asheville, NC for fifty cents.” link
Why Renting Might Be Better Than Buying a Home →
Why Apple's iPhone Doesn't Need 3G →
“Microsoft trying to patent the iPhone. No kidding. Wired has the story here. Big...”
– Fake Steve Jobs
Today is going to SUCK.
We have to euthanize Iggy (our pug). She has cancer and has not eaten for days. -so sad
More on the Best Deal in Photography →
Digitizing Your Film Archive with Aperture →
Sometimes Aperture is more complicated than it needs to be. ~ AppleScript to change the “Image-Date?!? WTF!