The easy way to get iOS Screenshots on your Mac →
Great idea. I see this really being useful for getting some of my Paper shots quickly sent to my Mac with minimal fuss. (h/t Ben Brooks)
Great idea. I see this really being useful for getting some of my Paper shots quickly sent to my Mac with minimal fuss. (h/t Ben Brooks)
There’s been of takes on the Lumia 900 this week, yet I’m fascinated most by Ars Technica’s Casey Johnston’s analysis on the shortcomings of the Metro UI:
[At times] the large fonts that characterize the OS take up too much valuable screen real estate.
The headers in the Outlook app, for instance, have a lot of breathing room. It makes the layout look nice, and choosing to display your contacts’ names in the largest font, twice the height of the rest, rather than the subject or snippets of content presumably makes you feel popular and keeps it people-centric. But I generally care just as much, if not more, about the subject and content preview than the sender, which are grayed out compared to the sender’s name.
In Mail on iOS, you can customize the font and the number of lines of the message preview, but Windows Phone provides no such options. Because of all the white space and large font, and the inability to fix that through settings, I can skim less of my e-mail at once, requiring more scrolling to go through it all. These information-sparse design cues extend to many of the third-party apps we tried, including Yelp and Twitter, where screen real estate often seems wasted by big fonts and white space.
I’m generally critical of the opposite problem on the web: a lot of websites, especially those on the arts/fashion side of things tend to emphasize small, 10 or 11px font as a primary body font. Yet in the process of going big, you can go too far – it looks like Metro fell down that trap.
There’s several Apple vs. Nokia camera mashups to pick from, but I prefer this one from Tested. Bottom line, it reinforces what was apparent in other reviews: the Nokia stacks up the to the iPhone in great lighting conditions but falls apart in low light situations. Given how often people shoot later in the day or indoors, I’d argue that in practical use, this is a deal killer for the Nokia.
Slate writer Patrick Radden Keefe:
Betty, the writers tend to deny us those redeeming, sympathetic moments. As an artistic matter, this may be unassailable; in real life, some adults really are vapid children with few redeeming qualities. But on a show where each character possesses a distinctive ratio of vinegar to sugar, Betty feels out of proportion to me. She’s almost all vinegar, and that strikes me as cruel.
It’s late in the week for Mad Men commentary on Sunday’s episode, yet Patrick nails it. Something about episode 503 felt very off – I think Betty’s storyline had a lot to do with that.
After a week of hard work with lots of CSS editing and cross platform testing, version 2.0 of my personal site is now finished and launched. Welcome!
It’s been a long time coming. The last year has seen a dramatic experimentation on my part with blogging and social media with fairly uneven results. I’ve tried regularly flogging Twitter, cropping and posting shots up on Tumblr, even committing myself to a 700 word plus rant here on my personal site, yet nothing seemed to feel fully comfortable.
So for now at least I’m getting back to basics. Here you’ll find a mixture of Daring Fireball-esque link posts that I find interesting; tech, design and film stories predominate. I’ll also occasionally be posting more extended, traditional blog posts, though I’m aiming here more for a happy medium size, probably 500, 600 words tops.
Hopefully you enjoy the layout. It’s an HTML5 based WordPress theme written pretty much from the ground up. It’s simplistic, letting the typography (go FacitWeb!) shine with a lighter, milder color contrast than I’ve used before. It’s also fully responsive, built on a 24 column variant of the Skeleton grid system; that should make for comfortable reading on your iPhone, iPad, Android or other mobile device of choice.
Comments or questions are always appreciated. Enjoy.
Just when you thought the Final Fantasy series couldn’t get any more irrelevant…
When you see a free, 50 minute set of Vimeo essays on The Wire popup online, it’s pretty much a no brainer.
In app browser, send and archive, and more.
Best of all:
Thanks to your amazing support, we feel confident that Apple might revise its position on the Push API. We’ll submit a first version of Sparrow 1.2 including it. This might delay Sparrow 1.2 validation but we’re already working with some partners to include Push in future versions of Sparrow without needing Apple clearance.
Push is coming. If Apple can’t help us yet, we have other ideas.
Hell yes.
Great idea by developer David Kaneda. Totally should come in handy during my cross browser testing phases.
Programmer James Hague:
When I sit down to work on a personal project at home, it’s much simpler. I don’t have to follow the familiar standards of whatever kind of app I’m building. I don’t have to use an existing application as a model. I can disregard history. I can develop solutions without people saying "That’s not how it’s supposed to work!"
That freedom is huge.
Having recently knocked out some side projects of my own recently, James really hits it on the head. If you’re a developer and don’t have the time space to go off and run with your own thing on your own time, you’re missing a big growth opportunity.