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Brooke from Ad Adstra
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Brooke from Ad Adstra
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10 Questions Apple Must Answer in 2007
Wired’s Cult of Mac drops another year end top-ten list — and it’s a good one. Surprisingly insightful commentary on what’s to come from everyone’s favorite company.
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Did YouTube Cut the Gordian Knot of Video Codecs?
“The codec wars are over, at least for web clips. Flash Video is the new internet video standard.” I definitely agree. It’d be nice if something with higher video quality (like QuickTime) had won, but it didn’t. Flash is the Internet video king. And web designers and developers better get used to it, because Flash’s dominance in video is going to pave the way for more and more Flash development in general.
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Typies: 15 tips to choose a good text type
A nice set of tips on choosing a good typeface for body text. Nothing especially new here, if you’ve read books like The Elements of Typographic Style, but it’s nice to seem them all in one simple list. Well-done.
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Paul Mayne: Top 6 Flash Development Tools
Paul’s favorite tools for Flash development. Handy — I’ll be checking these out.
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WiiLi.org: Wii Linux
Actually not just for getting Linux on your Wii — there’s a lot of general Wii hacking goodness there, as well. Thanks, JKM.
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Alex Bosworth: How To Provide A Web API
Hmm, I wonder if a jeffcroft.com API would be useful? It sure would be easy, with Django powering it all. I suppose no one would really care, huh? :)
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Google: 2006 Year End Zeitgeist
I always enjoy looking at these.
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Bug: IE7 absolutely positioned italics
Stuart Colville disovers that IE still pukes all over itself when you use italicized text. Wasn’t using italics a solved problem in, I dunno, 1984?
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Devlounge: Interview with Larissa Meek
Former Miss USA finalist turned web designer. Nice.
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Nokia N95 commercial appears
God, I want this.
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Wired News: Vaporware ‘06
Wire’d top ten list for this year’s vaporware includes Spore, “The iPod Killer,” and TivoToGo for Mac.
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Jakob Nielsen: Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
Jakob’s ten most egregious offenses against users are mostly the same things he’s been railing on about for years. As with most Nielsen musings, his ideas are largely good, but his writing style, attitude, and absolutism are annoying at best and offensive at worst.
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Digital Edge: 2007 Edgie Award Finalists
World Online has four nominations, and a cursory glance suggests close to half the nominees are running Ellington and/or Django. By my quick count, there are 13 Ellington-powered sites nominated in the 11 categories. Sweet!
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Obvio Tribrid Sports Car: Electric Pocket Rocket Runs on Anything
I link this not so much because I’m enthralled by this car as because I’m excited that chances are looking so good for electric cars. The Tesla guys and a handful of others are showing that performance is not an issue. Within the next five years or so, there should be lots of electrics to choose from, even in America. Awesome.
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Mike Davidson: An Animated Look at Why E-Mail Is Broken
Mike is the latest of many to weigh in on how much e-mail sucks these days (and I couldn’t agree more). He does so with a clever, fun, and highly accurate interactive animation.
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Samsung LN-S4041D: 40” LCD HDTV
Just a little linky to the HDTV Michelle and I just ordered tonight. Can’t wait to get it! Yay for new toys!
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Haley with her gift from me
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Haley and a kaleidoscope
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Haley and a kaleidoscope
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Haley with the shoes Michelle got her.
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Haley with the shoes Michelle got her.
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Haley opening gifts
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Haley opening gifts
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James Brown dead at 73
James Brown, the “Godfather of Soul,” whose rasping vocals and revolutionary rhythms made him a founder of rap, funk and disco as well, died early Christmas Day. He was 73. James Brown is amongst the most influential musicians of any genre. He will definitely be missed, especially by funk and soul fans like myself.
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How to use OpenID (a screencast)
More on OpenID by Django co-creator Simon Willison. Great stuff! I sooo hope more people start implementing this.
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How to turn your blog in to an OpenID
Simon has a great piece on how to turn your blog into an open ID. I definitely intend to do this. Thanks, Simon!
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Internet Explorer and the CSS box model
Roger Johannson details various methods of dealing with the incorrect CSS box model used by older versions of Internet Explorer for Windows. There’s nothing particularly new here, but this is still a major hurdle for people new to CSS, and Roger does a great job of outlining the problems and solutions.
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Marry Me Moses at The Jackpot
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World Online's Alex Kritikos on the guitar
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World Online's Alex Kritikos on the guitar
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Alex rocks the lap steel
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Alex rocks the lap steel
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How Apple Could Rock Wireless
CNN Money on why Nokia, Motorola, and LG may be secretly rooting for an Apple-branded phone to be a (minor) hit.
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Happy Birthday, CSS
Given that I almost certainly wouldn’t have the career I do without you, I think you’re probably worthy of my birthday wishes, Mr. Cascading Style Sheets. It’s kind of crazy to think that you’re ten, CSS, and you’ve only began to really get legs in the last few years. Here’s hoping for more years of continued success as you move into the third phase of your life. Now, if we get just get someone besides Safari behind that third phase…
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Researchers catch and film giant squid
Only a year ago, the existence of these giants was believed by many to be a myth. One was photographed last year, and now a live one has been filmed. The say the elusive creatures may be more plentiful than previously believed, to boot. Very cool.
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Opera browser now available for download on Wii
I’ve not downloaded and tried it yet, but the video makes it look darn good. Almost certainly the best from-your-couch web browsing experience available, anyway. Go to the Wii Shop channel and then Wii Ware to get yours.
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Newspaper Association of America: 20 under 40
A nice list, with some good interview responses from the selected. Includes former World Online director Rob Curley.
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WebFaction gives you cheap Django hosting for Christmas
Following the talk on John Udell’s blog, WebFaction has stepped up to the plate to offer mod_python/Django hosting starting at just $7.50/mo. Although I’ve not used it, I think it’s safe to say this is probably the best inexpensive Django hosting solution out there now. They specialize in agile framework hosting, have an easy, control-panel-based install, and have a screencast showing you how to get started with Django. Also a great option for TurboGears and Rails developers.
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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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