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September 11, 2000
I am trying desperately to find some redeeming functional value in Meeper, a Mac control panel that adds visual effects and user-selectable sound cues to system alerts. I’m not having much luck. Apparently the developers could barely scrape up a valid selling point themselves, as the product description states: “It’s cool, it’s fun, it’s eye … More
September 11, 2000
Are my eyes deceiving me, or is that actually a BBEdit upgrade I see? Bare Bones has released version 6.0 of that Mac code jockey’s fave rave editor and there’s more than just a couple highly usable refinements peeking out from the new features list. There’s no mention of it on the site, but here’s … More
September 10, 2000
I just couldn’t resist the urge, and lord knows I tried. From the back of the same pamphlet, I discovered this amazingly shrewd and telling example of a consumer-focused, value-chain assessment. Keep in mind that in this particular situation, the transaction would be based on the unit values present in the 1991 herring market. The … More
September 9, 2000
My friend went to Burning Man, and all I got was this stupid Microsoft pamphlet. A vintage 1991 pamphlet, no less. Saved from the ravages of the final cleansing pyre that is the culmination of the Burning Man experience.It actually might have felt good to toss this yellowing, staple-bound profession of the Redmondian way into … More
September 8, 2000
Yesterday after work, I had a beer and a plate of randomly fried foodstuffs with Bruce and Brad from Webcore Labs, another jiggy little design outfit based here in Calgary. I used to work with Bruce a few years ago, and although what we’ve been doing to pay the bills lately seems to have followed … More
September 7, 2000
Some brainiac at your shop decided to throw a pile of geek-approved acronyms at your servers and now your faced with integrating your web design methodology with some fancy-schmancy, database-driven site architecture. Sound familiar? Instead of dealing with the dry heaves, here’s a decent review of Dreamweaver Ultradev from a Mac perspective. Gasp. You’ll be … More
September 6, 2000
I wonder what one of these would look like in my living room?
September 6, 2000
All in the pursuit of patent-free happiness. During a quick peruse of the web this morning for resources on PNG, I discovered a few things previously unbeknownst to me. For example, did you realize that PNG is not just an alternative to GIF and JPEG? Oh no. According the official PNG Home Site, it’s “a … More
September 5, 2000
What the hell is Shaw doing with my cable modem tonight? Every ten minutes or so the “test” indicator on the modem goes spastic and then I’m faced with a five minute wait while the “cable” light brazenly winks its luminous green eye back at me. Don’t they know I’m trying to publish a web … More
September 5, 2000
Elephants in the Living Room This freshly-squeezed stream of consciousness from Tog identifies four types of personalities that tend to inhabit web development teams. He describes these characters (and their “elephants that trample the user experience to death”) in frighteningly realistic detail, and shows how they can hinder your best attempts at producing a usable … More