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Tiger Impressions
Like much of the Mac world, I installed Tiger Friday night. Yesterday, I got to spend some quality time with it. What follows is a sort-of stream-of-conscious list of initial impressions.
- On my Powerbook (1.25MHz G4, 512MB) the interface seems a bit more responsive. I don’t think actual speed is increased noticeablty for intesive processes (say, converting a music file from MP3 to AAC), but the general feel of basic operations (opening/closing windows, etc.) seems snappier.
- The contextual menu in most Cocoa apps includes a “Look up in Dictionary” option. Handy. As nice-looking as the new Dictionary dashboard widget is, this contextual menu option is probably more useful. Even better: go into Dictionary.app’s preferences and select “Open Dictionary Panel” from the contextual menu options. This is a small pop-up panel that opens under your cursor, rather than launching the entire Dictionary.app program. Sweet. Even better than that? Hold down CMD-CTRL-D and point to words on the screen. Woah. Nice. It’s pretty smart, too. It’ll even tell you what “WTF” or “RTFM” means (go ahead, try it).
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CSS cheat sheet
A very nicely-laid out CSS cheat sheet that include properties, syntax, units, the box model, and more.
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sIFR 2.0 is out.
sIFR 2.0 is now final. Still the best thing since CSS itself. Go get yours!
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Apple Cinema Display 20” vs. Dell 2005fpw
Apple’s displays are sexy, but the prices are totally absurd. Dude, I’m getting a Dell. They’ve got the exact same LCD at about half the price.
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Safari passes the Acid2 test
I believe this makes it the first browser to do so. Way to go, David Hyatt.
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The misguided marketing of PlaysForSure
“Let’s envision a fantasy world in which Macs are almost universally perceived to be as cost-effective as Windows PCs, all Windows applications are available natively on Macs, and it rains chocolate milk.” That’s pretty much what Apple has with the
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Since when is CSS being used for behavior?
There’s been a lot of talk lately about separation of the presentation and behavior layers of a web application and how it relates to pseudo-classes in CSS such as :hover and :focus. I’ll be honest: I haven’t read most of it. So, maybe this is a basic question and has been answered before, but I’ll ask it anyway.
I’m confused. It seems to be that CSS only allows for presentational attributes. Colors. Style. Hiding something. Showing something. Borders. Sizes. Etcetera. If I, say, change a background color for a form field when a user clicks in it using :focus, aren’t I changing the presentation of that form field? I’m not changing its behavior. If I show a piece of descriptive text under an image when the user mouses over the image using :hover, I am only changing the presentation of the image and caption. I’m not changing the behavior of them.
CSS wouldn’t even allow me to add behaviors if I wanted to. So why is this an argument? Can someone explain?
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The Ideal Web Team
I generally agree with the esteemed Mr. Budd here, although I do think room can be made for a dedicated visual designer, especially if they have Flash-type skills too, if you’ve got the budget for it.
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Dashboard widget wishlist?
I’d like to try my hand at writing a Dashboard widget or two, and I’m sure some of the other great designers in the CSS blogosphere would, too. As such, I’m soliciting ideas for widgets that would be useful to you in the comments of this post. Widgets users-to-be, tell us what you want to see. Widget designers-to-be, feel free to take any ideas you see and run with them. Just be sure to let us know of the results!
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ShortStat Dashboard widget by the Noobers
The first widget I’ve seen that will be really useful to me. Here’s hoping more of the blogosphere greats will get into the act of designing widgets.
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The anti-poseur.
Great photo of a skater flippin’ a kickie. I love the arms, the shadow, and the concentration on his face. Via Kottke.
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Aardvark Firefox extension
Incredibly handy. Highlights page elements and captions them with the HTML element type and its class or id.
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IE 7 will have proper PNG support
Well, at least we know IE 7 will be somewhat better. It will support PNGs with alpha channels and will have some CSS improvements (although details are fuzzy).
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50 Random Observations on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Some pretty interesting tidbits here. I’m looking forward to getting my copy Friday.
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Dave Matthews Band’s “American Baby” is an iTunes Exclusive
Finally, a DMB song on iTunes. I’ve been waiting for this since the day the ITMS opened. Now, if only they’d get the whole collection on there instead of just one song.
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HowDidItGoIn.com
Did Tiger act alone on his unfathomable 16th hole chip at the Masters? Hilarious.
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Michelle
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Michelle
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Tasha and Tiffany
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Tasha and Tiffany
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Tasha and Tiffany
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Michelle
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Jeff
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Jeff
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Michelle and Tasha
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Michelle and Tasha
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Jeff and Michelle
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A Picture Share!
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A Picture Share!
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Party People in the House
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Party People in the House
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Mac miniMate: 160HD and USB/Firewire hub for Mac mini
Pretty cool, but could have been prefect if they’d put a couple of those ports on the front of the thing.
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Canon Powershot S2 IS
I think the digital camera I’ve been waiting for has finally come out. Big zoom, Av and Tv modes, manual focus, and 5MP for $500. Sounds good.
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SvN: A hiring tip
Assuming all things are basically equal, always hire the better writer. I couldn’t agree more.
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More proof that cell phone carriers are stupid
As cell phone carriers (including Sprint, Verizon, and Cingular) reject Apple and Motorola’s new iTunes-capable phone and scramble to come up with their own music download services, they’re making a lot of noise about the fact that they don’t want people to be able to copy music from their PC or Mac to their phone. They are concerned that you will purchase and download music on your computer and then copy it to your phone, bypassing their network and preventing them from charging you for minutes. Which makes some sense, I suppose.
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The future of Spotlight on OS X
I’ve been trying to explain to people for a while why Spotlight, and other metadata repository style search indexes are revolutionary, but most don’t seem to “get it.” Maybe this will help.
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DF: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ Re: Acquisition of Macromedia
Clever and well-thought-out, as per Gruber’s usual.
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with Simply Measured, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my past clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, Django, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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