October 2009
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Designing for crummy displays
I know all you designers out there are equipped with the most stunning displays when you make your work (especially those gosh-darned Mac users!), but always keep in mind that your audience will often be using cheap monitors that can’t tell a tan from a gray.
A few years ago, when I did work on the website of the company I was working for, I picked the tan color because I thought it looked...
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“Commenter:
I have never and will never purchase an app from the app store that...”
– a TUAW commenter
(via chartier)
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“I really like Jim Cloudman’s response to my iMac article. And that’s a great...”
– Marco Arment
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A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over... →
Only the Wall Street Journal even managed to keep its customers. Things are starting to look glum for the newspaper industry. Five years from now, it’ll be the publishing industry that’ll be headed for the grave. Five years from that, anything involving offset lithography.
Digital printing, screen printing & large format printing should be safe for quite a while, though, and...
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re: The Curious Pricing of the 27" iMac
The monitor is, by all accounts, the greatest piece of liquid crystal display heaven to ever grace the Earth. Marco Arment touches on a good point, though:
How are they making anything — or even not losing money — with the base-model 27” iMac?
His answer, that Apple scored a great deal from the panel manufacturer, has got to be a part of it. I think another part of it, though, is that the...
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HP & UofM On-Demand Book Deal →
An interesting explanation of the process and the quality of the books, and what it means for the future of publishing.
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On-Demand Physical media PC Games @ The Microsoft... →
The one redeeming quality about the otherwise copied-from-Apple Microsoft store: ingenious use of on-demand printing.
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Font Squirrel's @font-face Generator →
This makes everything dead-simple. It can even shrink the size of fonts by getting rid of useless glyphs!
Apple - Mac Mini - Features →
Anyone find it funny that they show off the dual-monitor ability of the Mac Mini using a picture of two Dell monitors? It’s like they’re saying “We know you’re not going to buy two of our Cinema monitors for this thing, so we’re not even going to try…”
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Gizmodo's Unibody MacBook Review →
While they were comparing it to the 13” Macbook Pro, I noticed this:
The only difference is that the Pro has a 60% greater color gamut.
While this is awesome for the fact that the entry level Mac is almost all Pro material, it’s bad for someone like me because I would expect to do some actual color correcting on this thing, and though I don’t mind my work taking longer, I do...
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New Apple Hardware! →
It’s not a coincidence that all this cool new Apple stuff came out two days before Windows 7 is due to arrive…
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“Note this in particular:
Apple said that new products would have lower margins...”
– The New York Times
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Why I don't recommend Macs for my parents (and...
OS X, to me, is pretty awesome. I’m very happy with my system, and very glad I’m not just running Windows on it. It has the coolest software, an attractive and well thought-out design, its UNIX base comes in handy, it lets me do more with my iPod Touch… I could go on and on about why I use a Mac.
And yet, when my Dad asked me what makes Macs better than PC’s and why he...
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Becoming a Font Embedding Master →
Looks like the end-all-be-all guide to getting custom fonts on the Web for the near future.
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“How to save print: Legalize tobacco ads in newspapers. Encourage cigarette...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman