The Power of Viral
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Jonathan Mak Long, the Hong Kong student who created this tribute to Apple founder Steve Jobs designed an image for Coke's global "Open Happiness" campaign, which has now appeared in China.
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Full writings, sometimes short and sometimes longer. Thoughts worth putting down.
The Innovator's Patent Agreement
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From the Twitter Blog: One of the great things about Twitter is working with so many talented folks who dream up and build incredible products day in and day out. Like many companies, we apply for…
Owning A Majority
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The Wall Street Journal: On the morning of Sunday, April 8, Facebook Inc.'s youthful chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, alerted his board of directors that he intended to buy Instagram, the hot…
How Images Are Downloaded
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Tim Kadlec has a good overview of Media Query & Asset Downloading Tests & Results. Interesting and helpful insights on how images are downloaded when media queries are involved.
Adaptive Images
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Another interesting approach for optimizing the delivery of mobile content in responsive designs. I haven't tried this one out yet, but am wondering if the resized images will retain high quality…
Font Awesome
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The iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap. And because I'm using it on this site, it's worth linking to.
It's Time To Get Back On It
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For good things to happen, it sometimes takes a while. And then there comes the day when you want to make good things happen again. It has been quite a while again since I last decided to write some…
20 Years of Awesome
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BBEdit turns 20 years old and that is well worth sharing a story. We've had your back for 20 years. We were first on OS X. First on Intel Macs. First day in the Mac App Store. And there's lots more…
The Power of External Power Sources
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An Experience With A Samsung SyncMaster Display I recently decided to get a new external display to connect to my MacBook Air. Even though the new Thunderbolt displays are very nice and the display…
OSX Lion Special Characters: A Special Place
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After being on Lion for a few weeks now, most of the things that changed feel normal again and it didn’t take long to get used to them. In the past I have been using the symbols for Alt- and Cmd-Keys…
Welcome My New Workhorse – A MacBook Air 2011
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Over the last few months I have been holding off to buy a new main computer for my daily work. The main reason for this was that I couldn’t make up my mind and decide on what the right machine to go…
The Mac App Store
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There has already been a lot of talk about the new Mac App Store right after launch. Numerous questions and observations have been pondered, with the most popular being "Can I update from the Mac App…
Happy New Year
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The start of the year somehow makes for a good starting point to start this new blog. I have been trying to do this for quite a while, but the last year was quite busy and it seems that the priority…