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Friday Links XIX

22 June 2007

Just one post – So very true; even if you only post one post, that’s still adding value to the world at large thanks to Google et al.

Pagination 101 – it’s so easy to overlook how important some of the small details can be to the overall user experience.

Long overdue post about the London Olympic 2012 logo. – Ben hits the nail on the head; I completly agree – I like it, and think we could have got something so much worse. In fact, I think (other then the rubbish font choice for “London”) it may be the best Olympic logo for years.

Yet another one more thing… a new Web Inspector! – the WebKit team at Apple is really firing on all cylinders at the moment; this is a great addition to Safari and seems to work better then Firebug for Firefox which is no mean feet. I’d love it if OmniGroup would release an OmniWeb update that uses it.

iPhone – A Guided Tour – this is really not helping. The UI looks amazingly well thought out, and just works so well. I wonder if one of the motivations for not releasing a SDK at this stage is that making iPhone apps – at least ones approaching the obvious quality of the ones built in – is really hard.

Designing for the iPhone is a refreshing experience – how I would love some times to be able to develop for a closed platform without a million variables like screen size or font rendering differences. Luckily when building our internal systems at work I can at least target just Safari (60% of users) and Firefox (36%), but it’s still not quite the freeing situation Scott describes.

Four hours upfront and then reevaluate – great advice; I find it often takes a bit of actual problem solving that starting to write code provides before you really “get” what the larger problem is.

iTunes now 3rd largest music retailer in US – just stop and think what Apple has managed to archive with the iTunes Store in 4 years. For a company with zero music experience it’s staggering.

Leakers’ Names About To Be Leaked – I’m in two minds whether this is a good thing or bad; probably bad, I think.

OK Computer is 10 – OK Computer still sounds like the future to me.

Exchange Exchange – it’s amazing how clueless most IT departments seem to be; I guess it may be down to the large quantity of failed Computer Scientists that populate them.