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Web design techniques and thoughts.
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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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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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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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No more hardware tinkering
Growing up with computers, any fellow computer nerd that I knew would be proud to upgrade their PC's hardware on their own, getting the latest graphics card for new generation PC video games.
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The Content Management System that wasn't
...what started out to be a simple tool quickly turned into something rather complex and may have been too ambitious in the end.
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My switch from Android to iPhone
A few months I made a list of what I wanted in a new phone as my two-year contract with my Droid was almost up.
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Developing a web app
My side project, Indie Aisle has been online for a few months now and as I did with designing the web app, I'd like to share my thoughts about the development process.
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Wrong default web cursor
This past year, I've tried an experiment on the site. I've replaced the 'text select' cursor that shows when mousing over text on a website with the default arrow cursor.
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Designing an online app
Indie Aisle is a project I've been working on and off for a couple of years now. This past year however, I really got going with it, spending most of my available time outside of client work.
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State of publishing in an interactive world
I attended this year's South by Southwest Interactive and was surprised to find quite a few panels about publishing content online from people who have done it successfully.
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iPad and the trend towards reading digitally
...devices like the Kindle and the iPad make ereading more accessible for people in a similar way that the iPod made downloadable music more accessible to a wider audience.
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Introducing Indie Aisle
The Internet has given everyone the ability to post their stories, the next step is to allow them to find their audience. That’s what Indie Aisle has set out to do.
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