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@font-face — Web designers’ delight, type designers despair?

Chris
Posted by Chris July 18, 2009
Categories: Design, Featured, Resource, Web
95% of Web Design is Typography
Image by thebudman84 via Flickr

If you are excited about the newer web browser software being able to make use of a myriad of fonts then I guess that you are a web designer. However, if you are a font designer then maybe you’ve been tracking news about @font-face since 2007 with trepidation rather than excitement.

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Make the Apple App Store backward compatible

Chris
Posted by Chris May 13, 2009
Categories: Apple, Featured, Software

Apple App Store

When Apple release the new iPhone Operating System (3.0) they will remove applications which are not compatible with the update from the App Store. Is it time to make the App Store backward compatible?

iPhone App developers encouraged yet warned

Apple have been encouraging iPhone App developers to create new apps for iPhone OS 3.0 for some time. In addition to developing new apps developers are also encouraged to test old apps to make sure that they are also compatible with the impending iPhone OS release (if not make them so). This encouragement from Apple seems reasonable and logical, yet it has been tainted with the warning that compatibility issues could lead to some applications being removed from Apple’s App Store.

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Apple Shrink The iPod Shuffle Again

Chris
Posted by Chris March 12, 2009
Categories: Apple, Featured

Just when you thought that mp3 players could not get smaller without loosing functionality Apple release their new Shuffle. The new iPod Shuffle is indeed smaller yet can hold even more music (now 4Gb) and introduces new features while becoming more minimalist.

Three generations of Apple iPod Shuffle.

The familiar ring of buttons has gone leaving the Shuffle’s facia blank. Now the iPod Shuffle is controlled via the simplified three button control which are found on the earphones cable. A single click on the centre button will play or pause music, a double click will skip to the next track and a triple click will select the last track.

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30 Different Uses for RSS

Chris
Posted by Chris November 15, 2008
Categories: Dugg, Featured, Web

RSS iconSometimes I find it tricky to describe what RSS is — I often end up explaining how I use Really Simple Syndication rather than what it actually is.

With this in mind I feel that this article provides a good roundup of what RSS can do for you. If you are new to using RSS, or have often wondered what that orange icon is all about then I highly recommend 30 Different Uses for RSS by Michael Fruchter.

I’m making an effort to become less reliant on visiting websites for the data I need. Spending a majority of my time in Google Reader, I decided RSS could help me accomplish this task. I no longer have to visit Yahoo to read my horoscopes or sports scores. I now track my Ebay auctions from Google Reader. These are some of the ways I started to recently use and rediscover RSS.

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Mini iPhone Available

Chris
Posted by Chris November 11, 2008
Categories: Apple, Featured


Real and Fake iPhone, originally uploaded by Robert Scoble.

 

Unfortunately Apple have not released an iPhone Nano. This is a fake iPhone that you can get in China, as spotted by Robert Scoble during his current trip to China.

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