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Thinking Differently About Site Mapping and Navigation
Great article by D. Keith on site maps, navigation, and “findability.”
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John Oxton on the Mac mini
I hate to admit it, but he’s right about the PS2/USB thing. Most PCs users don’t have a USB keyboard and mouse.
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Indeed
Looks like Google, but for job searches. Nice.
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One Letter
My new favorite Flickr group (thanks, Caterina Fake).
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Delicious, the Coffehouse Montser
Great stuff at Wired. Delicious runs their company out of a coffee shop. I’m so doing this whenever I finally get a business of the ground. And, some interesting details about Library 2.0. I heart this company.
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Well Styled Color Scheme Generator 2
Ultra-sweet.
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Ductype
If pixel fonts are your cup of tea, you must visit this new foundry.
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Douglas Livingstone’s 3D Box Model demo
Nice interactive 3D CSS Box Model demo based on Jon Hicks’ original illustration.
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Tsunami moves North Pole, shortens daytime
I find this pretty facinating. Apparently the north pole moved about an inch with the tsunami. Wild stuff.
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Self Portrait
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Self Portrait
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What a cute couple!
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Portrait of Michelle (kind of)
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Mac mini: What you need to know.
Covers various details about the new Mac mini. Interesting and informative.
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Skinny J Inverviews Andy Budd
The Budd Man drops it like it’s hot.
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Win: A Logo Design Contest
Greg’s got a logo contest goin’ on. Create a logo, win an iPod Shuffle and some other fun stuff. Sweet deal.
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iTunes for movies coming soon?
Shareware app iFlicks disappears in a sort of SoundJam or iWork kind of way…what does it mean? Maybe nothing, but who knows.
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Mouseover DOM Inspector
This thing is an absolute must-have for any web developer. It’s a nice complement to the Firefox Web Developer extension, but it works great in other browsers, too.
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Apple’s Tipping Point
I’m linking this as much for the very well-designed info graphic as for the interesting Apple market strategy it depicts.
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Accidentially Kansas
Very cool set of photos depicting our unpredictable weather.
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FreeMiniMacs.com and FreeiPodShuffle.com
Well, Gratis Internet is at it again. That didn’t take long.
Just like FreeiPods.com, only for the Mac mini and iPod shuffle. If you read my site, you know that I did the free iPod deal from these guys and found it to be totally legit. I received a pink iPod mini a couple months later, and gave it to Michelle. So, why not try it again?
All you have to do is sign up using my referrer link and complete one online offer. Get 10 (mac mini) or three (iPod shuffle) of your friends to computer an offer, and you’ve got yourself a free Mac mini or iPod shuffle. Too easy, right? :)
My referrer links:
- FreeMiniMacs.com
- FreeiPodShuffle.com
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On the Mac mini
On the odd chance that youâve been out of town — on a ski trip to Breckenridge, for example — you may not have heard that Apple yesterday introduced the most inexpensive Mac ever: the $500 Mac mini. The Mac mini is an engineering marvel, housing an entire computer in a six inch square thatâs only two inches tall. Itâs smaller than many external hard drives. The machine comes without a display, keyboard, or mouse â? an obvious invitation to PC owners to simply switch out their bulky tower for the tiny box and be done with it.So how does it stack up? How successful will it be? What’s next for Apple?
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Hidden Gems from Apple
Derek points some of the less obvious niceties from this week’s slew of Apple announcements.
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Mike D. on MacWorld Expo
Mike says everything almost exactly as I would have said it, if I’d made a full-length MacWorld commentary piece.
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iWork ‘05 Impressions
Michael Heileman on the new office software from Apple.
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podSites
On creating mini HTML-ish “sites” for use on iPods. Interesting.
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Calling Bullshit on Six Apart
Accessibility madman Joe Clark calls out Six Apart, who is quickly becoming the Microsoft of blogging software.
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Most Common Browser Bugs
Andy on the bugs that bug him. Nice summary.
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Big, Stark, and Chunky
Accessibility maven Joe Clark gives us ALA’s latest — all about zoom layouts. Awesome.
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Float Nightmares
David Hyatt, Safari’s Daddy-O, has trouble implementing floats as per the CSS spec due to problems in other browsers. Interesting.
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Catching up: Vacation photos, MacWorld, and more.
After a drive of ten hours or so, I returned home safely this afternoon from my ski/ride mini-break in Breckenridge. It was, of course, a blast. We skied three days at Breckenridge and one night at Keystone, hit the town, and did the usual ski trip stuff. I elected to snowboard again (I’ve now rode a total of seven days and one night in my life), and managed to come out of it pretty competent (I’m very solid on the blues, but didn’t try any blacks) and injury free (as opposed to last time). The rest of my group (Michelle, Melissa, Megan, Kevin, Andrew, and Rusty) all skied. The weather was decent — kinda cold and cloudy, but with tons of fresh snow for powder-riffic riding. All in all, it was a great time. Can’t wait to do it again.As promised, I’ve flickr’d my photos. Check ‘em out:
Please leave comments on individual photos on their Flickr photo pages. General comments can be left here.
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Rusty, Megan, Kevin, Michelle, and Jeff on Peak 9
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Jeff poses next to his Bentley (yeah, right).
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Jeff poses next to his Bentley (yeah, right).
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Waiting gear.
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Waiting gear.
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Skiers prepare to get on the lift.
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Skiers prepare to get on the lift.
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Skiers plan a route.
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Melissa eating.
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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