May 2006 Notes Archive
A nice summary of Microsoft’s new media player with Urge. It concludes, “Apple needs — and customers deserve — vigorous competition. But that’s not going to happen if the best Apple’s rivals can manage is a combination of beta software of dubious reliability and a tie-in to a music TV channel that devotes most of its airtime to things besides music.” How true.
Flickr goes Gamma and launches a fantastic new organizr. Does your web photo gallery do that?
Don’t you just love it when you make a feature request and it’s filled in less than two days? A Yojimbo plugin for Quicksilver is now available. Alcor, you rock my Mac.
Snap is the best new search engine I’ve seen in years. Visual search results aren’t anything new, but it sports a great interface for browing and allows you to interact directly with your results before you leave Snap.
Apple and Softbank to develop Cell Phone iPods?. Probably the most credible rumor about this I’ve seen so far. Could it be true?
Yojimbo by Barebones software is my new secret weapon for managing all the little bits of information on my Mac, and the best software I never knew I needed. Basically it stores text, rich text, images, PDFs, serial numbers and passwords along with simple metadata in an extremely simple and great looking interface. After using BBEdit, I didn’t think Barebones had it on them, but wow - impressive. Now all I need is a Quicksilver plugin that allows me to search its database.
Framfab UK wins a Webby! Congrats to everyone on the Framfab PSP project team!
Via a Technorati search I happened across the Movable Type donors page, a long list that includes many bloggers who started out with Movable Type. Are you a Movable Type old-schooler?
Chris Pirillo is insane. Okay, this is getting ridiculous. Who reads 8088 feeds? Apparently some guy named Dimitar Vesselinov.
The fuzzy cloud, the fuzzy cloud, it’s everywhere! (I think SvN was the first place I saw it)
Redesign the BBC homepage. BBC Reboot is asking the world to help them discover what BBC 2.0 looks like. I’m currently planning a submission with a few colleagues from work. You should too.
Vote for what you want my next Digital Web article to cover on my main blog.
John Gruber on the Aperture story: “It’s generally easier to fix an app with a great UI suffering from
performance problems than an app with great performance suffering from a terrible UI.”
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