David Emery OnlineFriday Links XXXVI
2 November 2007
The Superest
Superhero illustration vs Superhero illustration – totally brilliant.
Leopard, Notes, and the iPhone
Come on Apple – get this feature done, we all know it’s coming.
Googling with Coverflow
What a great idea and – with the presence of WebKit – probably fairly do-able.
Get rid of your code with Leopard
We’re going to see some seriously cool 3rd party apps running on 10.5.
The social part of blogging is broken
” I don’t expect everybody to blog or use twitter and consider it very dangerous indeed to go down that route as it does smell of inbreeding to me.” – so, so true.
Robot arm inscribes the Luther Bible around the clock
This greatly amuses me, for some reason I can’t quite put my finger on.
Mixa-it
Silly, but kind of nifty.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review
A must read due to it’s extreme attention to some of the finer technical details in 10.5. However, I firmly disagree with some of the points about the Finder interface (which I think is much better then 10.4) and the general aesthetics. Both presented as fact, but both are a matter of personal taste.
New websites
I think it’s always worth considering starting again if you’re not liking the direction a project is going in. It’s an extremely hard choice to make, but it can often be the right one.
Jeep adverts
Simple but very clever.
Designing the User Experience Curve
Games quite often get user experience so right – we should all try and learn from them.
BBC exec’s straw-man defence of DRM
“The BBC broadcasts the entirety of its programming at the speed of light, in digital form, without DRM, to every corner of the UK.”
We’re pulling the plug on Newshutch
Ah shucks! I had high hopes for the Newshutch guys – they got a lot of the crucial stuff right.
Trent Reznor and Saul Williams Discuss Their New Collaboration, Mourn OiNK
“Trent: I’ll admit I had an account there and frequented it quite often. At the end of the day, what made OiNK a great place was that it was like the world’s greatest record store.”
Satisfying UI Design is Often Illogical
So very true – people are creatures of fashion and changeable taste, and user interfaces need to reflect that.
Last.fm and BBC Launch Charts for UK Radio Stations
What a great idea – we can now see that Radio 1 really does play the Killers too much…
CSS Animations in Safari
I completely disagree; as David Hyatt points out in the comments animation != behaviour, it’s all about presentation.
Camera Comparison – Canon Powershot G9 vs Canon 5D
My Canon G7 can take stunning pictures in good light – it’s in low light where it suffers and something like a 5D is really going to shine.
Tumblr 3: Third time’s a charm
This looks really very good – loving the simple, elegant interface.
Mac OS X runs deleted applications
Interestingly a few people of talked to about TimeMachine at work got really paranoid about the security implications of being able to recover files. I think people are far to scared by ‘hackers’, and it’s all the media’s fault.
Supporting Developers
Ad-supported desktop apps are a pretty new concept (on the mac, at least), and I think it’ll take a while for people to get used to it.
Migrants take all new jobs in Britain
This – incredibly – is a real story. It’s not a joke.
Freeconomics
“Free is more complicated than you’d think”
Perfection
Everyone developing web sites should read this post.