Innovation : Lessons from Apple @ The Economist

Innovation : Lessons from Apple.
thanks to barry for the pointer

The OS X Features I Want to See Announced at WWDC

wiki formatting an OS-level option in all text-fields
replace folders with tagging and views, so that filing and folders become unneccessary and the “shelf problem” (one book can only reside on one shelf) is re-solved without asking users to manually create aliases to files in different places. ala GMail
roll Growl into the OS

Easy on the Unsharp Mask filter

What up with the grossly oversharpened faux-screen images on Apple’s new Macbook Pro marketing page? Just sayin.

“We are intensely pissed off that these latecoming jerks are getting more attention than us, but we realize that if we criticize them it’ll just look like sour grapes…”

Michael Mace, channelling Nokia on Mobile Opportunity:
It’s clear that recent comments from Nokia suggest that they see [the iPhone] as a validation of the direction they’ve been espousing for quite some time.

“Well, maybe. But if I was at a smartphone company and I was competing with the iPhone, the line I’d use in public is, […]

ShoZu Phonecam Upload Bugs

Open letter to Shozu, because you don’t have a public bug tracker:

When i take a photo and the one-click automatic upload runs, Shozu asks if i want to open BlueTooth…!?! Then it uploads normally to Flickr.
When i delete a photo from within Shozu, it corrupts the file so that the image disappears from Shozu’s list, […]

Maker Faire 2007

click to view the photos of Maker Faire 2007.

Fortitudine Vincimus - By endurance we conquer

Tony Figueroa aka Maskedwrestlerzero on Hugh MacLeod’s Sex & Cash:

I thought I was utterly alone in my struggles and then I find your thoughts Hugh. I work as a janitor for the government (cash) and I’m a single dad of a 13 year old boy. I write and draw my own comic book. I have […]

Behind the Scenes on Shipping Flash 8

It’s weird seeing another team inside our old building (601 townsend, former organic office).
Macromedia - Flash Developer Center : The Making of Flash 8

Zingerman’s sandwich or “Smallest, Coolest Apartment” contest winner?

Zingerman’s sandwich or “Smallest, Coolest Apartment” contest winner?

Sara’s “Cheesy Retro”
Giuseppe’s Fantastic Illusion
Jenny’s Fix
Oswald’s Mile High
Jack’s Think Big
Wayne’s Inheritance
Melissa’s Pocket Magic
Olya and Tim’s Victorian Basement
Diana’s Different Drummer
Eric’s “Porta-mato-licious”
Tim’s Overlapping Spheres
Debbie’s Baby Grand
Casey’s San Francisco Simplicity
Lila and Izzie’s Skokie Skidoo
Meg’s Everything In One

Apartments: 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15
Sandwiches: 3, 4, 6, 9, […]

The Power of Holding a Color

The street finds its own use for things, as William Gibson once said. So what can we do with hardware store paint chips? Plenty, it turns out.