January 25, 2001
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Busy day tomorrow. Busy, busy, busy.
Archive: January, 2001
January 25, 2001
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OS Has a Face You Can Love “The first beta is out for Athena, which will be a customizable object-oriented interface that can sit on top of any operating system’s kernel including Linux, Mac OS and Windows. The modular design enables developers to write one source code base that can be run on all three … More
January 24, 2001
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Microsoft’s New Operating SystemMy apologies if you’ve seen this already, but it was forwarded to me this morning and for some reason I found it particularly funny today.
January 23, 2001
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I made an interesting discovery this morning after seeing a Google reference in the search term and referrer data for this site. If you search for “blog” using Google, my own blog — yes, this very page — shows up in the number five spot. Wow.
January 22, 2001
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Coincidental software burp, or conspiratorial stifling of information? This weekend, Jeffery mentioned that his page counter had been reset and was no longer a stalwart purveyor of the truth. Today, he linked to my post about the weird-ass CSS shtick over at eyemodule.com, and thinking that I should monitor the extra traffic load courtesy of … More
January 21, 2001
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What on earth are they doing with their Style Sheets over at eyemodule.com to warrant the display of this pop-up window? I have yet to try the site using other browsers besides IE 5 Mac and Netscape 4 Mac, but I suppose that any browser where the user can change the virtual display resolution could … More
January 21, 2001
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Jump on this one before Apple lets the intellectual property dogs out and the software gets pulled off the shelf. Aquamatic streamlines the creation of shiny, Aqua-esque buttons. It’s a single trick. But it’s a trick done well.I used Adobe’s Frutiger 55 Roman in the example above, but for best typographic results, find a copy … More
January 20, 2001
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A serendipitous hypertext journey. On Friday, überlinkster Garret had a posted a link to The Ohio Art Company’s online Etch-a-Sketch and it triggered something that made me think of an article in an old issue of Byte magazine where some geek wired up an Etch-a-Sketch using serial controlled stepper motors. Since Byte’s sorry excuse for an … More
January 20, 2001
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I’ve always said that it pays to register your software, sometimes in ways you never imagine. Since I’m a registered user of Illustrator, Adobe sent me an email this past week requesting that I participate in a web-based survey pertaining to daily usage, feature needs, and other such market research. I’m sure tens of thousands … More
January 20, 2001
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ResExcellence has a quick and dirty tutorial on extracting fonts from Mac applications so they can be used in any program. Via MacNN