Michael Barrett These are headlines
Recent news followed by my pithy remarks. MacBook Air Announced Without Pony. Bloggers Demand Pony. The (ever) Daring Fireball and Paul Boutin at Slate are lamenting the fact that the newly announced Mac sub-notebook doesn’t have some manner of cellular EVDO type of use-anywhere-networking-just-like-the-iPhone support. A quote: Like me, Boutin was hoping for ubiquitous wireless [...]
Speaking of layout updates
I’ve created my own WordPress Theme (coinciding nicely with the 2.3.2 upgrade). When I kissed RapidWeaver goodbye, and re-familiarized myself with WordPress, I didn’t want to spend time customizing a web site design…I just wanted to fix the problem of me not posting very often. I discovered the Ideal Website theme – which is pretty [...]
Flickr phobia
I’ve been procrastinating updating my site for a while: noodling with layout ideas; thinking about whether I should rework abouthalf.com to be simply a portfolio site (since most of my blogging takes place on Blueplate Bachelor nowadays anyway) or setting up a sub-domain for my professional activities; and how to handle putting up snapshots and [...]
Software Update(s)
So I made the switch-a-roo and dumped MS Office of my system (safely archived on the original install CDs). Above you see a sliver of the Terminal, Activity Monitor (‘cuz it’s neat), Coda, Numbers, Pages, and NeoOffice. NeoOffice is there to do “heavy lifting” in case I run across some Office-y type function I can [...]
Selling [blank] to [blank]
The Steve-note is online at Apple’s web site. If you care about such things, you’ve already watched it. If you don’t, it is a great opportunity to see the best salesman of our time in action. http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/s83522y/event/index.html?internal=g4h5jl83a You’ve heard the old phrase “He could sell [stereotype] to [ethnicity]“. Well he could. In all seriousness, if [...]
Reverse Upgrading
I came across this interesting blog post about uninstalling MS Word and never ever using it again. http://stevenpoole.net/blog/goodbye-cruel-word/ It’s a nice read, though it’s basically a love letter to the new brand of hipster full screen anti-word processors like Writeroom and Scrivner. (These products seem nice for someone who a.) gets to use a Mac [...]
Coda Update
It’s like they read my mind! Coda 1.0.1 has been released, and one of the features? Local web server URL in the site configuration.
Coda Review
I’m not too proud to go running down the street after the bandwagon. I saw the news that the rock-n-roll software developers at Panic were releasing a web design tool, called “Coda“, so I checked it out, ran the demo, and bought it an hour or two later. I have spent about 12 hours working [...]
Minor Web Design Rant
I came across this item on Daring Fireball, an Illustrator file which mocks up Safari’s browser chrome for use in creating mockups. http://www.oddlaa.com/extras This is a well executed illustration, and probably will help a lot of folks out. However if you’re doing “web design” completely in Photoshop or Illustrator you will encounter at least three [...]
So cute it hurts
http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/