January 2006 Archives

• 25 Jan 2006

  What to Make of This

  Interesting stats from O'Reilly on the top 30 networks accessing Make's digital edition, not so much for who's on the top 30 (although as someone pointed out, how on earth did Bank of America get there?), but for who's not...

• 6 Jan 2006

  Unbearable Cuteness of Being

  I've become smitten with Tai Shan, the National Zoo's adorable fluffball of a panda cub. And, like millions of people worldwide, I've been tuning in daily to the zoo's two webcams to get my fix. Lately, I found that I...

• 2 Jan 2006

  URL(x): Short, Smart URLs

  Developed by Dan Phiffer, a fellow ITP alum, URL(x) is a URL shortening (no, not shortening like Crisco ... more like abbreviating) service similar to TinyURL or SnipURL. However, instead of creating completely cryptic URL aliases, URL(x) leaves the domain...

• 1 Jan 2006

  Creative Ranks

  Johnathan Ive, Apple's SVP of Design was honored this Friday, December 30, with the title Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the queen. Ive is probably most known for rethinking beige boxes that were once the PC standard issue and instead introduced us to organic iMacs and iBooks as well as intelligently minimalist products such as the PowerBook and iPod.