December 2008
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House Industries →
House launches a slick overhaul for 2009. (via David Kaneda)
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Digg “Spy” in jQuery →
Two jQuery tutorials that mimic Digg’s Spy effect, where a small panel is used to show a long list of items by fading each one out after a short timeout.
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“9” HD Trailer →
“Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Nightwatch) join forces to produce wunderkind director Shane Acker’s distinctively original and thrilling tale.” A feature-length version of Acker’s original short, this looks to be very good.
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“Actually, what I really want is a modeless UI that lets me set any two of the...”
– Justin Ouellette makes a good case for better auto-ISO handling on Canon’s new 5D Mark II. And Marco Arment is pretty positive about his after upgrading from the XTi.
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Meet Jacob Bijani →
Tumblr’s new creative director. I missed this at the time, but big congratulations to Jacob on his new full-time role. Can’t wait to see what he brings to the table. (via David Karp)
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“Duet” by Rachael Yamagata with Ray...
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“Google Blog Search went from being incredibly useful to utterly useless for me.”
– John Gruber on the changes to Google Blog Search that result in all links (including sidebar and footer links) being returned as new blog content. Same result here, the service is pretty much useless, especially for our work-related searches.
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“This is like Apple laying off Jonathan Ive.”
– Patrick Wang commenting on Yahoo’s decision to lay off key Flickr user experience designer George Oates.
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“I honestly thought … the new Keanu film The Day The Earth Stood Still was the...”
– Graham Reid has no kind words for Baz Luhrmann’s new epic, and goes on to suggest what a New Zealand version might look like.
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“Joy to Commando” from Doctor...
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“I heard @matthewbuchanan clocked the internet on hard mode last week.”
– ♥ Kris Lane on Twitter.
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Façade →
$10 theming app for Leopard, coming soon. (via Danny Garcia)
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WatchPsychoTypograph by Cocoe, music by Orbital. (via Johno Boardley)
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jQuery Delay →
A tiny plugin to add a delay between jQuery functions. In the past I’ve resorted to JavaScript’s setTimeout method, or faked a delay using jQuery’s animate method with identical start and end values. This might be better.
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Freckle →
Time tracking rethought, by Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs et al. Also just launched, with a free 30-day trial. From the manifesto:
We’re freelancers, consultants, and rogue agents, too. We saw where other software let us down and we built freckle in exactly the opposite way.
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Sifter →
Bug and issue tracking web application, just launched.
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“On most large sites, comment threads are followed by editors, authors, or...”
– Jason Santa Maria suggests “milemarkers” for long comment threads as a way of cultivating conversations. This could be pretty useful.
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Burial’s “Archangel” from the...
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“The National Identity Register will retain 49 pieces of information about every...”
– Tom Chapman is justifiably uneasy about the UK’s continued erosion of civil liberties. The irony of not even having kept track of how many CCTV cameras have been installed is hilarious.
November 2008
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“It fills the screen. The camera lingers over it while performing its best Ken...”
– Jeremy Keith hits the big time. 