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Fluid Layout from Hicksdesign
Hicks.design is Jon Hicks, established 2002.
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Mensch -- A coding font
The latest MacOS release (10.6, or “Snow Leopard”) comes with a new monospace font. It’s called “Menlo” and it’s a slightly modified form of the standard Linux font (with appropriately weightly Linux name) “DejaVu Sans Serif Mono”, which is itself an updated form of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Apple’s modifications are…
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Pure CSS Twitter Fail Whale
This domain name has been registered with Gandi.net. It is currently parked by the owner.
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Xcode UI Improvements
Xcode is a fantastic development environment for developing Mac, iPhone, and iPad applications. But it has some areas for improvement. In this post, I’ll explore some improvements to how documentation and autocompletion is integrated into the development workflow and how Xcode could provide specialized interfaces for…
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Jef Raskin on "Intuitive Interfaces"
One of the most common terms of praise for an interface is to say that it is "intuitive" (the word should have been "intuitable" but we will bow to convention). Yet the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) literature rarely mentions the word, and for good reason. This note attempts to clarify the meaning of "intuitive"…
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Music Notation with HTML5 Canvas
I spent a few weekends trying to scratch an itch. While looking for online tools to create and render music notation, I was mildly disappoin...
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Jakob Nielsen on iPad Usability: First Findings
iPad apps are much improved, but new usability problems have emerged, such as swipe ambiguity and navigation overload.
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Solving the Alt-Tab Problem
I've got about 20 Chrome tabs open right now, and I feel the same way you do: they're all too vital to close. Everything from articles that I'm currently
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PNG vs JPG: 6 simple lessons you can learn from our mistakes
Free, preconfigured Linux server images for self-hosting
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Mac and the iPad: History Repeats Itself
For those of us around Apple for the launch of the 1984 Mac, things are awfully familiar.
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So, you need a typeface...
I never usually feature my students but I’m going to make an exception, we had such a brilliant critique today that I just want to say “Thank god for passionate students like mine!̶…
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Logarithmic calendar view
I’ve been sitting on this idea forever, but the chances that I’ll ever do anything with it are close enough to zero that I’m letting it go. (It’s not original, either, but it has yet to make it into a widespread calendar product.)
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