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Well, I’ve not really been one for memes, but it’s been a while since the last one and this one looks like fun. As you probably guessed from the title I have to post my top 10 movies.
First the rules. 1. List your top ten favorite films (in no particular order). 2. If [...]
John Gruber outlines the changes to Spaces in 10.5.3. I’ve put them to test, because although I used Spaces I did get annoyed by the swapping by changing to an app.
John did miss something though. If you have an application bound to a space, it’s preference is still respected. If I have [...]
A remote tribe has been found in Brazil and photographed to prove their existence.
It is understood that when the plane first overflew the village, the people scattered into the forest. When it returned a few hours later they had painted themselves red and fired arrows into the sky.
I was reading about this on my lunch [...]
Interesting article answering the nay-sayers who think Apple will fail in their goal to sell 10 million iPhones.
I believe Apple will make the goal with ease, especially if you take into account the 29 new countries the device will go on sale in. That’s a massive market with potential customers in.
Everyone knows I”m an Apple fan and I like to keep informed on the news. One of the big things I like is the design, and when I come across an interview with the man behind the design, I pretty much drop everything and read it. I’d like to meet Jonathan someday, he [...]
Excellent piece about design and its significance.
Good design is an essential part of every interaction, every touchpoint, every service opportunity, every creative endeavor, and every communication between your organization & your customers/guests.
I like the above quote, it sums up the importance of design well, at least in my view and is something we shall all [...]
When I got an invite to Things, back in December of last year, I was instantly impressed. I’d been trying out OmniFocus as a form of task management but it never really worked for me, too many options made it feel complicated and I wasted more time inputting and sorting tasks than I did [...]
Ben Gray of openswitch, has an interesting interview with Michael Kelley, the writer of The Tough Sayings Of Jesus II.
I wanted to highlight the last paragraph because it really struck something with me, in particular sentence.
To Paul it seems that behavior is simple: Understand who you are, then live out your identtiy. So in terms [...]
This is an absolutely fantastic idea for an advert. Brains the Thunderbird puppet showing us his moves to Rhythm Is A Dancer.
It’s for a “new” bottled water called Drench which they are pitching at the intellectual side of the market.
iTunes UK adds NBC/Universal, despite US boycott. It’s also interesting that there is a variable rate to the shows, which is a part of the reason why NBC pulled out the US store.
Jesse Anderson has redesigned his blog and website Echo Faith.
It’s a nice design. Clean and readable, but still using Jesse’s somewhat trademark worn stylings. It looks to me like Jesse was influenced or at least inspired by some of Avalonstar’s new stylings but it’s still clearly Jesse’s design.
One of the things I’ve always tried to do on this blog is talk about things which inspire me, mostly in my design work. It’s not always happened as I’ve wanted it to, but recently I’ve been noticing things a little more and seeing that it’s not just design work that inspires. So [...]
Vodafone to Offer Apple’s iPhone in Ten Markets including Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey.
Darn it, why can’t they have got the deal in UK? I’m a Vodafone customer and tied into a long contract, which is stopping me getting the iPhone. Although if recent [...]
When I was younger I used to be fascinated with models. It was mainly model trains but I did used to like looking at models in general. I guess that’s why I was drawn to this article on custom figurines.
The detail is fantastic and each one is custom built off the base of [...]
Congratulations Forest!
It was a dramatic afternoon but thanks to Cheltenham beating Doncaster my team Nottingham Forest are promoted to the 2nd tier of English football!
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