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 you’re a fan of FX Network’s The Shield don’t forget to check out the FAN PODCASTS for the show. they allow fans to interview the show’s talent and then subscribe to the answers and interviews via iTunes (or any other podcatcher). FAN PODCASTS are a Big In Japan exclusive and FX has them for many of their original series.
I’m looking forward to these changes. Lots of nice, nuanced tweaks that improve overall read & scan-ability of the main pages.
That said I was bitten by a nasty little gap in the current basecamp ‘design’. Two word, SMART QUOTES. Yup they killed some work we were doing at BIJ because we had code pasted into basecamp with out being wrapped in PRE tags. The end result was some javascript dying silently because of curly quotes. Seems obvious in retrospect, but when you use the tool solely for web+application development it would be nice to have a switch to turn the darn things off so you don’t need extra tags for every message.
Earlier this week the Big in Japan team released Egorcast, a Twitter, Jaiku, WordPress and Jott mashup. Sounds all fancy, but it’s really a simple setup. Try it out!
Heavy-hitters in the icon design world discuss all things pixel and space via 37signals Fireside Chat series.
Episode 3 (coming soon)
Fiveqs.com has a nice micro-interview with Josh Williams, owner of Firewheel Design in Dallas.
Hopefully someone out there can assist. I’m looking for the best Windows FTP client available, something that can handle SFTP, easy bookmarking/favorites, collapsible or reduced UI and stable. I’m currently using Filezilla and finding it a real pain in my workflow and would love to find something cleaner/better. Really what I need is transmit, but on a PC.
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.