Have you ever looked in a real DIYers toolbox? Or maybe even the toolbox of someone who’s pretty handy, but who has a messy streak? So all the hammers might be together, or all the screwdrivers will be together, maybe even with some sort of arrangement as to Phillips or Torx heads… but there is [...]
FreshAIRApps is, as its name would suggest, a directory of new Adobe AIR applications. As AIR has grown in popularity, we’ve started following the site more closely to see what’s new in the AIR world. The only comparable site out there at the moment is Adobe’s own AIR showcase. Because FreshAIRApps is such a great [...]
Slick UI seems to be the norm for most ‘big name’ iPhone applications on the AppStore. Twitterrific easily gets the top spot in terms of having attractive UI and navigation. However, UI and usability are not synonymous. When I use my phone, I want to accomplish what I want to do quickly and easily. Unfortunately [...]
Back before the days of FriendFeed, it was pretty common to see people post things like, “Just wrote a new blog post. What do you think?” to Twitter. That’s a good way of getting your link out there, but if anybody actually wanted to answer your question, they’d probably do it in the comments, not [...]
Most Web designers make liberal use of CSS selectors, but that spec’s sibling, descendant and child selectors can cause what designer/developer Shaun Innman calls a “significant, negative impact on page rendering.” This is confirmed in tests done by UI Specialist Jon Sykes that are published on his blog.
Fortunately for most designers, the performance impact is [...]
In many ways, I’m pretty old school. When I learned HTML, I painstakingly handcoded my pages in the esteemed Notepad. Only when I became a master of HTML-fu did I allow myself to try Dreamweaver. (Okay, fine, the ability to buy a license with educational pricing may have had a lot to do with it, [...]
One of the most valuable features of any good email or IM service is the contact list. Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, and other companies that provide online communication tools also give you a place to store information about your friends, family, colleagues, and people who you met years ago and have completely forgotten about.
Yahoo! is [...]
Yahoo! Fire Eagle got a lot of attention when it launched back in March, and for good reason: a cross-platform system for building location data into an application? The buzz died down, though, because there weren’t any cool applications using Fire Eagle. That’s changing now, though, as the first wave of Fire Eagle stuff rolls [...]
When the iPhone Dev Team announced on April 1st that their team was being dismantled, and their intellectual property was being swallowed down the gullet of some fat-cat enemy of the people, Some sites took the bait (albeit with a small dose of skepticism).
Now that the fog that is April Fools Day has lifted, [...]