Need a little perspective on what you just bought?
Our children’s grandchildren will be thanking us decades from now.
You will not get that on United Airlines
I guarantee it.
Simple tips to reduce your household expenses
http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/article/print/0,,20250928,00.html
Off to shorten my dryer hose…
Design is (almost) always in the details
Just noticed a small little detail in my OS X Dock this afternoon that I had never noticed before. Not only did the designers at Apple take the time to design beautiful elements at the top level, they also took into account how they wanted the elements to interact with other things on the page.
The icon above the dock is a .PNG file of a theme I have been designing for WordPress recently. I have always noticed (and loved) that most of the icons on the desktop show what the file actually looks like instead of having just a standard .JPG or .DOC icon. What I hadn’t noticed before today is the fact that they were so detail oriented that they built in a reflection aspect off of the Dock for things in its proximity.
The image below is a screen shot of just an icon near it but it also works work open windows near the Dock as well. If you look below the icon on the left it has reflected the name of the WP_theme icon above it. Beautiful.
Random links to start your Friday
Bora Bora
A few more articles/pictures like this and you can kiss my American-rear goodbye: http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trw-borabora,0,5854436.special
Daft Punk
It’s like Dance Dance Revolution for your fingers: http://www.najle.com/idaft/. Couple it with the YouTube hands version of the song and you can not only impress your friends but also build dexterity.
Gowalla
iPhone owners, sign up for and play Gowalla. It was created by a local shop here in town called Alamofire who incidentally also launched a pretty new website (and stole my idea for page scrolling) this week and also happen to have a dotcomrade of mine on staff. If you have facebook, they also made a game called PackRat. Apparently it was big and fun.
Google Voice
Only available to those who made the beta of Grand Central (unfortunately, not me) right now, Google is rolling out a new feature that will have both Skype and your local phone company banging their heads on their respective desks. Voicemail, central numbers that all forward to, Voicemail transcribed to your email inbox and text messaging are just a few of the features they boast. World domination to continue.