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Surveying the Big Screen
Mike Pick writes up a thoughtful article about designing on the web when the visitor’s resolution is big. Really big. Worth reading if you use a computer at all anymore.Developer Survival Kit
Looks like the fine folks at St Vital Centre have hit on a sure-fire way to motivate their web developers!
"Ooh, this looks promising..."
"Ermahgerd!"
"Sweet, I don't have to make dinner now!"
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Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iPad
Satya Nadella today headlined a media event to introduce Office for iPad, in line with earlier rumors. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iPad are now live in the App Store as of 11:00 AM Pacific Time.
"Step Down"
This morning, a number of Mozilla employees took to Twitter with a united, nearly simultaneous message to new Mozilla Foundation CEO Brendan Eich: "Step down."
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ShareDrop: AirDrop in your browser
Now non-OSX users have an AirDrop-like option to share files on a local network.
Facebook Buys Oculus VR
Strikes me as a buy-now-while-its-hot-and-figure-out-what-to-do-with-it-later sort of acquisition...Super Normal
Dave Morin, founder of Path, gives some sound advice. Don't try to make up the next great thing out of thin air. Instead, think of a something that is already 'normal' to the world, and then try to make it better.
Designer Dirty Talk
A little NSFW, a little cheesy, a little offensive, a lot of terrible design-related puns.
DRM-ing Your Coffee
Like printers and ink cartridges, Keurig's next generation of coffee machines wants to lock you into getting your fix from them at the price they want to charge you.
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Basecamp is under network attack (DDoS)
If you use Basecamp, then you know that is yo-yoing around this morning. Turns out that some internet scum are trying to extort money by performing a denial of service attack and offering to turn it off if they are paid. The internet, where anything is possible and not all of it is good.Daily Links
The New Spring, Brought To You By Climate Change
Five charts over at PopSci telling us why spring is showing early than ever because of climate change. This year must be normalizing the data however.Billy Joel and Jimmy Fallon Form 2-Man Doo-Wop Group Using iPad App
If this doesn’t make you smile, you are cold-hearted. Super fun for a Friday!Apple TV Concept
Speculation on what the next generation of Apple TV could look like based on the current generation of iPhones. Pretty nice mockups I must say.RoomScan
Touch each wall in a room with your phone, and the app will be able to extrapolate that into a floorplan. Do each room in this manner, and you can do your entire house!
First Tweet
It's twitter's eighth birthday, and they're inviting everyone to reminisce with them. Use the new discovery tool to find your first tweet.
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Wearing Apple
Craig Hockenberry writes up a nice review of why Apple might not actually be working on wearable tech anytime soon. We just had this discussion in the office because my Fuelband broke.Food Ideas from Munchery
Nice looking site with a ton of pretty quick recipes. If I was a (lazy) person in the SF Bay Area, I would totally use this.
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Fieldnotes Spring Edition is called Shelterwood
If you follow me on Instagram, you might already know that I love my Fieldnotes. Spring Edition for 2014 looks to be one of the best yet.
Goodbye And Good Riddance
Today, Blizzard officially shut down the Diablo III auction house.Daily Links
Practice CSS selectors skills game
A 26-question interactive quizDaily Links
Urban Jungle Street View
Einar Öberg has made a little hack for Google Street View that adds trees, grass, vines, and vegetation to normal city streets. Grab a compatible browser and see what your city would look like if nature reclaimed it!
Primordial B-Mode Polarization
This could provide the first direct evidence for a theorized event called inflation that caused the universe to exponentially grow just a fraction of a fraction of a second after it was born... aka, the Big Bang!
"A Toxic Office Culture"
Engineer Julie Ann Horvath describes sexism and intimidation behind her recent GitHub exit. GitHub's three cofounders are Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, and Tom Preston-Werner. Wanstrath and Horvath have not revealed which cofounder is at the center of this controversy.
Interviewly
Taking ask-me-anything threads from Reddit and presenting them in a much more readable format.
Introducing OneNote for Mac
Microsoft has launched OneNote, free, in the App Store for Mac.Breath Underwater With No Scuba tank
Pretty amazing is this works. As a diver this opens up a whole new realm of possibilities and dangers of decompression sickness.
Font Men
A short video on Hoefler & Frere-Jones, from SXSW.
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iOS 7.1: new minimal UI mode and old bugs on Safari
Apple introduced new boolean property for iPhone and iPod touch: minimal-ui in 7.1 for web developers. This is similar to saved on Home Screen web apps but not quite the same.Mini Metro
A minimalistic game in development that emulates the look of subway maps. The alpha versions are available for free and have the feel of a casual tablet game. Surprisingly amusing, I'm looking forward to the final version.
What You Think You Know About The Web Is Wrong
Tony Haile writes about how we should focus less on clicks, views, stats, and numbers, and instead should be optimizing for experience and attention.