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Web design techniques and thoughts.
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RIP Flash
Recently, Adobe officially announced it is discontinuing support for its Flash browser plugin by 2020.
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The Transform app
Chris and Heidi Powell put all of their personal training experience in app form, giving people the assistance they’ve provided on their TV show, Extreme Weight Loss.
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Being an Apple fan
I'm an Apple user because I want technology to fade into the background of what I'm doing.
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Music discovery
A couple of months ago I found three burned CDs in a box somewhere labeled ‘Mix 2005’. I apparently made them over ten years ago at a time when I listened to music on a portable CD player that played MP3s. There are about 400 songs on the CDs.
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35 interface innovations that rocked our world
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The FBI vs Apple and our civil liberties
You may have heard about the FBI demanding that Apple crack into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California shooters. Apple has refused because they feel that it is a huge security risk to their customers. They have explained their stance on their website.
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Designing interfaces and writing comics
For the interactive design work I’m doing recently, I’m in the process of designing ‘screens’ for a mobile app which is what you would see on the screen of your phone depending on what you’re doing in the app.
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WinAmp
During the early days of MP3s, WinAmp was the best Windows MP3 player around. It had a simple interface that you could even change the look of by downloading 'skins'. I even made a couple of skins myself back then.
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20 years of Impulse Tracker
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A look at my past publishing things on the web
Growing up, I've always enjoyed making things. As a kid, my favorite toys were Legos. I would draw all the time and wanted to be a animator when I grew up. It's no surprise then that I immediately got into computers as a kid, especially when it came to using a computer to make things.
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Facebook algorithms and the problem with majority rule
...recently, Facebook started automating the filtering of posts which is really annoying because no one really knows exactly how the filters work.
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My own Yahoo logo animated GIF
Yahoo has recently started animating the logo on their site. It reminds me of their early days on the web. I was such a fan back then that I made my own animation of their logo. The animated GIF above has a timestamp of 12/26/1996, I was 12 years old at the time.
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What a bad interface can do
I lost all my Google Docs files unknowingly with a few simple steps.
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The new Microsoft CEO: me
My qualifications as the new Microsoft chief are as good as anyone.
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Learning by copying
Taking apart someone else's work as practice.
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Programming made for humans
Writing less code and using an interface to program on the web.
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It's pronounced Jif not Gif
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What makes a good ebook
Besides a great story of course, what’s involved in producing a good ebook?
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Marketing a web app
The only way to really know if someone is using your product, this making it successful, is if they are happily paying for it!
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Why ebooks took so long
ebooks are becoming more common today, quickly turning into a new standard for reading books. It's pretty interesting how long the idea of an ebook has actually been around, since even before the mainstream Internet. So why has it taken so long for people to really start reading digitally?
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