February 2005 Archives

• 28 Feb 2005

  Firefox Usage Gains Declining

  Report from Web Side Story: Firefox's usage growth rate seems to be on the decline. Oh no! Say it ain't so :'(...

• 28 Feb 2005

  Mac's Interface Design Originator Dies at 61

  Jeff Raskin, Apple's employee #31, died today. He is credited for designing the Mac's revolutionary graphical user interface. Thank you, Jeff, for your gift. Read the Wired story....

• 13 Feb 2005

  Fontifier

  A few folks have complimented my handwriting and have suggested that it would make a nice font. Enter Fontifier -- just download the template, scribble, upload ... a few internet winks later ... voila! Your own penmanship as a font!...

• 12 Feb 2005

  Address Book & Google Maps

  From MacOSXHints: Applescripts that allow you to get the Google Map view of an address in your Mac Address Book....

• 12 Feb 2005

  CSS Image Mapping

  Nice implementation of image maps using CSS. Then again, I don't even remember the last time I used an image map...maybe 1999?...

• 3 Feb 2005

  A disclaimer worth reading

  While vicariously traipsing through Douglas Bowman's photo galleries today, I happened upon this gem of a disclaimer from which I quote: If you're still using Internet Explorer 5.x -- for either Windows (5.0 and 5.5) or Macintosh (5.0 through 5.2...

• 2 Feb 2005

  Most Unusual Blog

  Not your run-of-the-mill blog. I found myself flipping through the collections of ... oh, I don't even know what to call it. You'll just have to see for yourself! http://www.3580.com/...

• 2 Feb 2005

  Delicious Book on Type

  New book from Ellen Lupton, Thinking with Type, set with my favorite type family, Thesis. (As an aside, I selected Thesis to be the official AOL typeface). With sections titled, "X-HEIGHTS 'Do I look fat in this paragraph?'," this promises...

• 2 Feb 2005

  Cute enough to eat?

  Stumbled upon this photo gallery of Hello Kitty sushi. I don't know how I feel about eating Hello Kitty's head -- I'd probably just stick to yellowtail....

• 2 Feb 2005

  Roadrunner & AOL Broadband

  Time Warner recently announced that AOL and Time Warner Cable's Roadrunner service will join forces. Wait...how long ago was the merger officially completed? 2001? And they just realized this redundancy? I wonder how long it will take them to realize...

• 2 Feb 2005

  Pramulator

  A Hummer of a pram made of hand-shaped aluminum. Uggh! It's like school in the summer: no class....