March 2012
5 posts
2 tags
Windows Desktop UI Concept →
This. This should be Windows 8 Desktop. This so much.
February 2012
10 posts
4 tags
Collusion →
A Firefox add-on by Mozilla that helps visualize sites that track you with cookies. As you visit sites, it will build a graph, so you can see which websites are following your path across the internet.
5 tags
Chrome for Android: Update →
I upgraded my Galaxy S to an Ice Cream Sandwich ROM just to try out Chrome for Android. I had also made some statements about how it must be better than Firefox for Android, before knowing better.
Now, having used it for the past 3 weeks, Chrome for Android is terrible. It’s startup time is unbearable, often taking 15-30 seconds. Even simply the “New Tab” page takes way too...
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Add-on Builder 1.0 →
Add-on Builder, the product I’ve been working on for the past year, has just hit 1.0 It’s a web-based IDE that let’s people create add-ons for Firefox using JavaScript and HTML.
7 tags
The Shipyard Mindset
I’ve been working quite a bit on this little JavaScript MVC framework called Shipyard. Those who know me may recall that I used to write a lot about MooTools, and may wonder why I’ve moved off it and am writing my own framework instead. I figured I’d take the time to explain why I felt the need existed for Shipyard, and the goals it tries to accomplish:
Being truly modular
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Facebook Mobile is Boring →
Dan Frommer points out the issue with Facebook Mobile:
The more immediate problem, I’d say, is that Facebook’s mobile product is rather boring today.
Many claim that it’s terrible because it’s a WebView. That’s non-sense. Twitter is native, and just as boring, UX-wise. People could do some really fun, interactive stuff with JavaScript and transitions. Why don’t they?
4 tags
What Are PCs? →
As Shawn Blanc puts it:
When they say the iPad is not a PC what they mean is: there’s no way I would or could give up my PC and use an iPad instead.
Some people seem to think that tablets are not PCs. They aren’t desktop computers, that’s true. But these new devices, tablets and especially smartphones, are more personal than my desktop is. My phone is the most personal computer...
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Users Are Not Worried about iOS Restrictions →
Alex Knight:
Apple simply can’t make enough of them as we speak to even fulfill demand. So how is it that anyone can believe more users are going to care about the platform’s restrictions?
It seems true that most people don’t care that much about the restrictions. I’d say its similar to how many people don’t care about the privacy issues with our browsing the internet. Go...
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Chrome for Android →
Exciting news for Android. It’s always been a wonder why the stock Browser wasn’t Chrome, and now it is. And it really rocks. The tab interface is fun to use.
However, since it uses an updated version of the webkit rendering engine, it should need to load that library upon initialization. The standard engine is always in memory, something that’s held back Firefox for Android....
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The Invisible Hand of Super Metroid →
Hugo Bille’s analysis of how Super Metroid guides a player while the player feels they are discovering things in the chaos on their own:
Watching him, a complete newcomer to the genre, still find his way around Zebes in pretty much the same way I’d do, almost never once getting lost or stuck for any considerable amount of time, made me question how that could be.