Monthly Archives: July 2004

The Fridge

July 31, 2004 – 4:13 AM
One of the nicest implementations of magnetic poetry I've seen yet. (more)... Read More »
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Design sites do Web standards

July 31, 2004 – 3:15 AM
Joe Clark: 'Sites dealing in visual artworks are not exempt from the need for standards compliance.'... Read More »
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Educating mom

July 31, 2004 – 3:15 AM
Mom brought Google to its knees. How can Internet secuity be explained to people who don't know or even care?... Read More »
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Taming the Beast

July 31, 2004 – 1:07 AM
Solving Mozilla's marketing problems: "In fact, the entire website is completely user-unfriendly. In certain parts, it's as if the web designers went out of their way to fail splendidly."... Read More »
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Web design checklist

July 29, 2004 – 10:56 PM
All the important bits, collected into this handy list.... Read More »
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Apocalypse

July 29, 2004 – 10:06 PM
Courtesy of Jakeneck: Imagine this... you wake up tomorrow morning and find out that the Dow Jones has just plunged 2,000 points. Trading has been halted... Can you take a mental trip into this strange future?... Read More »
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User Experience is More Than Design

July 29, 2004 – 9:32 PM
"I don't deny I'm both a fan of and an apologist for Apple. But the Sony experience described in the Journal just makes me shake my head. Bad technology decisions marketed poorly are as much a part of the user... Read More »
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IBM’s Web Adaption Technology: access stopgap?

July 29, 2004 – 8:34 PM
At el Reg: "Rather than wait to get them converted, WAT enables people to manipulate web pages now."... Read More »
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Semantic web looking-glass

July 29, 2004 – 12:53 AM
Google of the future. No word yet on food pills and flying cars.... Read More »
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Downloaded music, MP3 player sales to double

July 29, 2004 – 12:38 AM
And $1.7bn by 2009? (News.com)... Read More »
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Nice, mum

July 28, 2004 – 7:43 PM
From the 'parenting makes you a better person' files... Read More »
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How-To Turn your iPod in to a Universal Infrared Remote Control - Features - features.engadget.com

July 28, 2004 – 7:14 PM
OK, that's way cool.... Read More »
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Microsoft.com CSS redesign case study

July 28, 2004 – 7:05 PM
How would you like to save 23GB of bandwidth per day? Yum.... Read More »
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A more accessible September 11 report

July 28, 2004 – 5:42 PM
As well as being more convenient, it makes it more accessible. Departments should be making this happen themselves. from Wired... Read More »
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Rounded Corners with CSS and JavaScript

July 28, 2004 – 5:37 PM
Just for my future reference: yum.... Read More »
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Observations

July 26, 2004 – 8:55 AM
Some things I've observed of late, in no particular order: One: The Wordpress Get Custom Fields plugin is a thing of beauty. I have all these ideas for neat custom field tricks now, which is a good-thing. Of course, the... Read More »
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Iraqi PM: summary executions?

July 17, 2004 – 8:13 PM
Really hate to say I told you so. (via Tim D)... Read More »
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Your data is at risk - from everything!

July 16, 2004 – 7:56 PM
'Their brains can store a virtually limitless number of sensitive facts - facts which can then be transferred orally to third parties, often after administration of the truth serum "beer".'... Read More »
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Ten dumb moments in scifi

July 15, 2004 – 11:15 AM
"Oh, thank goodness the acid-blooded crab thing fell off my face. Hey, do I smell scrambled eggs?"... Read More »
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US marriage amendment rejected

July 15, 2004 – 5:43 AM
Didn't even make it to the actual vote, apparently.... Read More »
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Macworld commences, punters happy

July 15, 2004 – 4:23 AM
10,000 visitors expected... Read More »
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Paul Thurrott is a gutless troll?!

July 5, 2004 – 6:45 AM
Looks like Paul Thurrott, of WinSuperSite 'fame,' happens to share a remarkable number of similarities with some lame and gutless trollster who can't manage to post under his own name. At The Mac Observer, resident troll 'RealityCheck' is the site's... Read More »
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Win, win, win

July 2, 2004 – 3:34 AM
To celebrate 100 million songs being downloaded, Apple's having a giveaway. The grand prize is phenomenal!... Read More »
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AOOA

July 1, 2004 – 12:27 AM
An intriguing flash game. (via Metafilter)... Read More »
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