Presenting Dawdler, and the World’s Slowest Instance Messager project. Slow is the new fast. Hell, even Twitter is slower than Chat.
When did this happen? I’ve been craving this for years. In a city like New York, not showing the subway on a map is a little like only showing 50% of the streets. It makes using it for traveling difficult. Sure, there have been some good subway mash-ups, but these are never as good as […]
Omfg, someone pinch me. Creative Suite 3 is only months away, and Photoshop beta testers allegedly report that it “sports an upgraded and more responsive interface” and “continually exceeded their performance expectations.” Can it be true?
Yes. Zeldman writes about Firefox’s terrible text/font handling on the mac. I feel like I’m constantly trying to explain this to people. Firefox is so well known now as the superior browser on the Windows platform that many ill-informed mac users assume it’s the same in OS X. No way. Zeldman doesn’t even get into […]
Sweet. The A-Bike is now being sold. And for only $300 including shipping from the UK. This thing beats the hell out of the Segway for a fraction of the price (and it’s a hell of a lot easier to get onto the train).
Spellcheck as you type is one of the greatest features of the modern PC. One of my favorite features of Mac OSX is that you have spell-check as you type in almost every application. (Well, not applications that don’t use the Cocoa graphical framework, which is one of the many reasons I use almost no […]
Okay, so the MacBook Pro is just about everything I could have wished for. But the big question is: where’s Adobe? I worry sometimes that Apple takes it’s core user base—designers—for granted. Most designers could care less about Microsoft Office on the Mac. What we want to know is how fast is Creative Suite […]
If you drag a folder of songs that happens to have a playlist file (.m3u) to iTunes it imports all the songs twice! Not just in your library twice, but actually makes two copies of the file on your hard drive. This has to be a bug, because no one would be stupid enough to […]
Last night was Eyebeam’s panel on what criticism means now that professional critics have to contend with “amateur” blogger critics. It strayed pretty far from the criticism topic and into general blog issues, not all of which were that novel, but overall it was a pretty interesting discussion. A funny moment came when Duncan made a […]
Okay. I managed to royally screw up my Typo blog. Never update to the latest version via svn without checking to see if the latest version has a drastically different database schema. So I’m going to use Wordpress for a while. I still think Typo’s great, but it’s young and needs more time to mature […]
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. I am a graphic designer specializing in interactive design, information architecture, user-interface design, and front-end development. I’m currently employed full time as the lead designer for BuzzFeed in New York City.
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