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Archive: January, 2001

January 15, 2001

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Crikey! It’s unbelievably hot in the office this morning. Nice to see we can still afford to pay our heating bills I guess…

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January 13, 2001

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Apple has posted a few updated Mac OS X screen dumps specifically showing changes to the Dock, the Finder, and the menu bar. Thank whatever supreme being you want, somebody down it Cupertino has been listening to the feedback. It’s the small, indispensible conveniences that you gripe about when they’re missing, but barely notice when … More

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January 13, 2001

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Flash: 99% ProofAfter finally dipping my toes into the dirty, tepid water of the Macromedia tool pool yesterday, what should appear but this timely and eerily appropriate editoral by my friend Chris MacGregor. Flash won’t kill anybody. Irresponsible designers “drunk on the power” will.

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January 12, 2001

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In what some acquaintances of mine might call a futile attempt to expand my brain, I’m attended the first of two all day introductory Flash sessions, graciously paid for by the my place of employ. I know what you’re going to say. I’m collapsing under the voluminous weight of interactive peer pressure, shedding all remaining … More

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January 11, 2001

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Lovely. I hadn’t been by in a while, but today I noticed that typographer.com has rejiggied it’s welcome mat to include even more type industry tidbits to digest. There’s also a few nifty articles in the magazine section that I seem to have missed on previous visits. I’m adding this one to my list of … More

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January 11, 2001

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How could you not want one of these? My friend Noel is down at Macworld this week surveying the splendiferous bumper crop of new Mac goodies, and he teasingly sent me a few closeups of the Titanium G4. This thing really does ooze pure metallic sexiness. Click on an image for a larger (approximately 100 … More

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January 10, 2001

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And it’s got an extremely short radioactive half life to boot. Everything you could probably ever want to know about Titanium. The alloy, that is. Not the PowerBook. Via applelinks.com

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January 10, 2001

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Someone has their hype machine cranked up to eleven for this shindig. Join the movement. Everybody is wondering what the heck it is. Truly bizarre. [ Update ] All sorts of links about “it” can be found in the January 10th entry over at boing boing, including these pictures.

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January 10, 2001

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I hate the stomach flu.Especially one that hits you so fast that you barely have time to react. So far this season, I’ve managed to escape all other strains of the bug, in part due to the flu shot I had back in November. Today my luck ran out. I arrived at work this morning … More

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January 9, 2001

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Dancing a Microsoftian jig that even Uncle Bill would be proud of, Apple released iTunes as a free download. Given that iTunes does pretty much everything that Audion does, save for skins, do you suppose the boys over at Panic are a bit pissed this evening? I would be.

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