Looking for a way to see how your web creations will look on iPhone ?
Check out iPhoney: iPhoney is not an iPhone simulator but instead is designed for web developers who want to create 320 by 480 (or 480 by 320) websites for use with iPhone. It gives you a canvas on which to test the visual quality of your designs.
I’ve been drooling over skitch for quite a while now, and thanks to Colin I can finally check it out. Rock.
Also info on how to use Safari Webkit2 and enabling debug menu on Windows.
Wow, MacBreak has really gone to crap over the past few weeks. The latest edition features the trio jabbering about WWDC announcements that they clearly didn’t know jack about. All of Leo’s insight was 2nd, 3rd, 4th-hand, and Merlin was eagerly poised as the contrarian-de-jour. It wasn’t difficult to simply stream the audio and listen/read along, which was too much for Scott to get out of bed to do and any listeners who had must have been as irked as I. These guys have been slacking a bit of late anyway, but this latest episode was beyond ill-prepared and Merlin seems intent on sinking discussions and sparring with Scott regardless of his insight on any given topic. The “I haven’t done anything all week but here’s a Jerry Lewis joke” schtick was funny the first 4 times he pulled it, but it’s become tiresome.
Did you see his latest podcast? Christ I’m a musician and I was bored listening to him talk over his guest about how he once tried to play guitar and had never heard of people ‘punching-in’ tracks on a recording. Not sure why I thought so highly of him in the past, it’s not that tough to post a bunch of GTD links to del.icio.us and call yourself an expert.
I’ve already seen a few posts bashing the fact that Apple isn’t opening the iPhone up to the world beyond Safari-based apps. Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz had a particularly long winded rant that seemed to boil down to this…no SDK means no wicked cool games on the iPhone…sheesh talk about missing the point. I don’t remember there being a revolt when the video iPod was released sans games, that’s because it’s a media player not a console, same goes for the iPhone. While I think it’s great that people expect sooo much from Apple, they also like to stray beyond sensible. Give it a chance, more importantly give the developers a chance. It’s a new platform and I’m sure there are some wickedly creative folks who can make some brilliant, iPhone-specific apps. Let’s give them a little time.
Today’s Apple announcement of “if it works in Safari, it works on the iPhone” is both a call to action and an affirmation of effort. Web apps have come into there own in most respects, and this movement away from complied to web will force the hand of many who have held out thus far. It also positions those companies that understand how the web works and the power of social/community/collaborative products at the front of a very long line of interested parties.
Among those rejoicing the announcement are Jason Fried and the 37signals crew. Hells yeah indeed Jason. (Be advised the comments on that post have the makings of a flamewar over the merits of objective-c versus web2.0, pointless meandering ensues…) I assume you will see simlar posts and pronouncements from across the web, including Google, Yahoo and other powerhouses, I look forward to seeing the response once people get a chance to digest and connect some of the dots.
On a technnical note, I hope Apple’s assertion that there would be no SDK is an overstatement. Please, give us all some design guidance and/or assets to truly “match the look of the phone”.
My cousin gifted me the latest Sea and Cake album from iTunes. I don’t care what people say about the current state of the recording industry, iTunes has allowed my friends and I to gift and share music in a way we never would or could have before. Which in the end has exposed us to new music and generated more sales than conventional CDs/retail model. Thanks iTunes, thanks Branden.
In case you’re new to the blog or just don’t remember, don’t worry I forgot too, I have a couple of widgets available for download.
NASCAR Themed Widget - NASCAR news and driver standings in a customizable wrapper
MLB Themed News Widget - MLB news for everyteam wrapped in team colors and logos
They are available as-is, but work pretty well as designed. Enjoy.
If’re you checking out this blog for the first time via Merlin’s menubar post, welcome. You can download the colorized menubar icons under the downloads section on the homepage.
See also: Directions for use.
According to Photoshop Senior Product Manager John Nack Photoshop, Photoshop CS3 will be released in two flavors, CS3 and CS3 Extended. Extended will create a new “franken-app” intended for video, animation, medical and science type-folks and is not to be mistaken for a “premium” edition. John describes this with great care, but I don’t know how Adobe can market this in a way that people will really ‘get’ what they are trying accomplish. This seems similar to the positioning After Effects Production Bundle versus standard AE, specialized features and tools for a select market. They’ve been quite thoughtful about how they name this “extended” set of features, but they may have been better served pushing it even further…with a more technical name or gone so far as to mimic AE and use the term ‘bundle’.
Regardless of the naming I’m quite curious to see what these new tools are and how they could improve my workflows, the more automation and in-app tools they develop the better off they will be. Integration is great, but if you can integrate or assimilate functionality in a way that keeps me, as a user, in a single app longer even better.