David Emery OnlineArtists, Bands and Musicians on Twitter
As a timely companion to my last post, here’s a Google Spreadsheet full of all the bands and labels that are on Twitter.
Visit ➔Sky Larkin on Dopplr
God darn it, why didn’t I think of putting a band on Dopplr? Considering we already generate iCals for most of our bands this should be a doddle…
Visit ➔Web Design+
Welcome to Web Design+. This is, in no particular order, an amalgamation of web-standards solutions for common web development issues and problems — a way to tackle development in the cleanest, most accessible and semantic way possible. By using Web Design+, the aim is to standardise practices throughout an organisation; from accessibility to hacks, Web Design+ covers the best ways to tackle a variety of dev problems.
A great idea in theory, and not massively different from a internal document I wrote a while back, but you’ve got to laugh at something like this that has a section on semantics almost directly followed by a bit on generic classes like ‘clear’, ‘left’, ‘right’ and so on being extremely handy…
Visit ➔Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 RC1
Microsoft today announced the first (and probably only) release candidate of Internet Explorer 8. In terms of its look and feel, IE8 feels a lot like IE7, though Microsoft has made a lot of changes under the hood. IE8 features a new rendering engine, support for CSS 2.1, and a ‘smart address bar’ that is very similar to Firefox’s ‘awesome bar.’ IE8 has also taken a page from Chrome’s playbook and now opens a separate process for every tab.
Anyone else slightly fed up with all the browsers we have to test in now? We’re pretty much now in the lovely situation of having three versions of IE to test in, each rendering differently to each other and each not rendering in the same way either Firefox or Safari do.
The new version of this site isn’t tested in any form of IE yet, by the way – I guess I’ll test in 7 at some point but there’s no way I’m testing in 6 for anything of mine every again… sadly on the public sites I maintain IE6 is still hovering around 10% which is still a little high to abandon quite yet (although well low enough to feed a more lo-fi experience).
Visit ➔Search Without Effort: The Quick Search Box
One of our goals at Google is to make your search experience as fluid as possible. While much of our work is focused on Google.com, we’re trying to make it just as easy to search outside your browser.
For the last year, we have been working on a new, open-source quick search box. Today, we are releasing our first developer preview for the Mac.
Or: Quicksilver, v2.
Seems pretty good so far – finally a decent launch tool, complete with just enough eye candy and functionality (but not too much).
Visit ➔iPhoto '09 and Domain Language
It matters if we call something an Event or a Milestone or a Deadline. And it also goes deeper than that. The names we choose shape our software. They define the way we think about it and the way our customers interact with it.
I was beginning to worry a little that spending slightly too long on naming interface elements was me just being a bit mental; it’s nice to know that either I’m not or at least not alone.
Visit ➔YouTube overlay HD ads
I think this is new – I certainly haven’t seen it before; YouTube is now running overlay ads over the top of HD videos. Click the link above to see it in-situ (you’ll probably need to click ‘Watch in HD’), or click the image below for a bigger view:
SimCity iPhone Impressions
I am far too excited by the idea of this – it could totally be the iPhone killer app games-wise. Better not cost too much…
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