The Consumerist is currently deep into the 2008 Worst Company in America contest, with 16 companies left in the round 3 bracket. They just posted the third installment of its “Sweet 16” matchup: Best Buy vs Diebold. Personally, I think Diebold is worse than Best Buy. Not only due to the voting machine fiasco, but […]
A shot of my toys at the office: From left to right: Spud Trooper, Artoo-Potatoo (with a hologram version Princess Tater by his side), and Darth Tater. Notice the gray rock on the bottom left. This stress toy is one of the gifts my company gives out at conferences. It is a rock that says […]
New York is in the midst of a heat wave. How did the temperature go from 60 to 90 overnight? Where was spring? With record-breaking temperatures comes mass transportation delays, school closings, and the delightful eau-de-NYC-summer. But my mind was on other things yesterday. Actually, the minds of many geeks and Apple fanboys were all […]
Every Apple fan has two events to look forward to every year: Macworld in January, and WWDC in June. Very often at these conferences, the keynote will be delivered by none other than Steve Jobs himself, announcing drool-worthy products and upgrades. Even those who are not in the industry travel from across the world to attend these events, […]
My MacBook Pro was still an infant at 1.5 months old. During my honeymoon, I noticed a black dot on the upper right-hand side of the screen. I immediately whipped out my iKlear travel singles and wiped and wiped…with no avail. I changed the background image, played movies over the dot, and dragged windows repeatedly over it. […]
In my last post, I talked about the power of a typeface and the impact it can have on your audience. Today, I will discuss the role and proper usage of fonts in web design. Let’s start with the basics. Fonts can be divided into two categories: serif and sans serif. To put it simply, serif […]
This week’s NYTimes had an interesting OpEd titled To the Letter Born, discussing the impact that branding, especially the typeface Gotham, may have on Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency. For this piece, Stephen Heller interviews a branding expert named Brian Collins who explains: …there’s an oxymoronic quality to Gotham, which is why I think it’s […]
Many years back I discovered a wonderful online store called ThinkGeek.com. I have ordered many items since then but my mind always lingered on the very first item that caught my attention: the There’s No Place Like 127.0.0.1 Doormat. (If you’re not a geek like me and don’t understand what the mat says, go read […]
If you haven’t already done so, please read Google Reader, Part 1. Google Reader is fairly simple to use. Here’s a screenshot of my G-Reader homepage: An explanation to the numbered features: All items. This tells you how many unread feeds you have. Starred items. With G-Reader, you can “Star” certain feeds that may be of […]
(I felt compelled to write this two-part series because I still have daily run-ins with people who have never heard of Google Reader. How? Why? The concept boggles my mind, because G-Reader is my favorite Google App and I can’t imagine why any regular web user would NOT use it…) Do you have a lot […]
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