ISSN 1496-3221
August 9, 2002
Since it pleases me so, I should mention the fact that the second Veer Visual Elements Catalog started landing in North American mail boxes this week. It’s a damn fine direct marketing vehicle for creative folks who consume vast quantities of digital content. Yes, I work at Veer and yes, this is a bit self-serving. … More
August 7, 2002
Since I seem to have this habit of continually expounding the virtues and facilitating the purchase of certain internet properties that may or may not be of use to anyone, I was intrigued — nay, entertained — by this article on defunct domain names. Did I say entertained? Hell, I nearly laughed my TLD off.
August 7, 2002
Oh for the love of Zeldman. Continually on the prowl for things to make my ears prick up and itch, friend Danyon passed along this typographically finessed error message found whilst attempting to peruse the FontShop site.Witnesseth yet another reasonably clever company blaming their visitors and their browser of choice rather than examining their own … More
August 7, 2002
The rawking new ADSL connection has been cattywumpus for the past 24 hours. The modem has been reset once or twice. The cables have all been uncabled and recabled and uncabled once again. The call to technical support has been placed. Nucleus seems to think that Telus boneheadedly mistakenly tripped over the hardware in the … More
August 5, 2002
I found this well-intentioned text accompanying most of the “back” links on the idrink.com site. It just goes to prove that it’s better to confuse your users with several ways of handling a simple task than to leave it up to them to figure out where they came from. And note the platform-centric mention of … More
August 3, 2002
Saturday morning. Formatting a floppy disk. A medium-density 800 KB floppy disk. Formatting a floppy disk so I can make a copy of a ClarisWorks database file. A file that currently only exists on the 40 MB hard drive inside of an 11 year old PowerBook. A PowerBook running System 7.1 in a measly 12 … More
August 1, 2002
Electrical conduit and red pipe in stairwell. 5th Avenue Southwest, Calgary.
August 1, 2002
The August update of the Newton FAQ is in the house.
August 1, 2002
The following little tater gem of an item was pinched from that pearl onion of the Mac news world, the Crazy Apple Rumors Site. It made the rounds on the NewtonTalk mailing list yesterday. Q: I have a eMate 300 that I have completely tricked out. I have a 64 MB PCMCIA card and I’ve … More
July 30, 2002
You’re frustrated, not just by the lack of proper font management under OS X, but by Adobe’s questionably dubious decision not to develop a native version of ATM for your new operating system of choice. Sure, they gave you freshly tweaked and prettied-up versions of Photoshop and InDesign to run barefoot through that unfettered Quartz-ational … More