October 2009
30 posts
Dancing
Luis: do you dance?
Melissa: for fun
but not for real
Luis: i didn't mean for tips on a pole.
what sort of dancing do you do for fun?
Melissa: crazy pperson dancing
GUIdebook > Screenshots →
Looking at old operating system screenshots is a little like time travel to me. Like seeing old pictures of a city you live in or once visited.
Larry Magid’s 1984 LA Times review of 128K Mac |... →
Fantastic look at the dawn of the mouse driven graphical interface.
CableJive: iStubz for iPod and iPhone →
minimalmac:
Part of reducing cable clutter may be to reduce the length of cable you need. In the case of your iPod or iPhone, the cable that it ships with is longer than a lot of people require, especially those of us on the move with a laptop. iStubz are shorter cables that you can get to use with those devices. They come in your choice of white or black as well as 7cm and 22cm versions.
Kodak: A Different Approach to Printing →
An excellent post highlighting a “think different” approach to printers.
minimalmac:
…They have come up with a more reasonable strategy – Sell the printers for a little bit more, sell the ink for a lot less, market the heck out of that:
10 Tricks to search Twitter better - Daily SEO... →
An enormous amount of both useful and mundane information passes through my twitter feed every day. But finding something that’s buried more than a few hours back can be a bit complicated Twitter.com’s search is actually much more powerful than it seems at first glance.
very useful tips on how to harness that search power.
Brian Lam throws a hissy fit? - Gizmodo →
I’m with Gruber on this one writing a long winded bitchy op-ed saying blackberry thinks gizmodo readers are motherfuckers is just infantile. I mean seriously what better way to show just how accurate Blackberry was in bypassing Gizmodo than writing this fucking tantrum.
100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its... →
It seems those that control content have always feared those who create innovative ways to distribute and share it. In each case their fears, and paranoia have blinded them to the very real and transformational possibilities of the new tech.
“Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that...”
– Clive Thompson on the New Literacy (via Jeff Atwood) (via marco)
Cellphone Nostalgia →
A great look at the evolution of cell phones.
PSP Go review: Sony is charging you much more for... →
A fantastic article on why sony can go f#$K themselves and why Apple is very likely going to knock the PSP out of 2nd place in portable gaming.
TUAW Tips: Get a better view with Quick Look →
this is an excellent terminal tip to get a little extra polish out of snow leopard.
as always proceed with care when using terminal
Home Sharing is iPod touch’s killer app for... →
An absolutely dead on, fantastic reason why, especially in this economy, the ipod touch is the best mobile gaming device for a family and arguably any two gamers living in the same household. Roommates, Couples, Band Mates, Reality Show Contestants.
via DF