So, made it to another NYC tech event. On a Saturday no less. Anyway, this was the first BarCamp I’ve ever attended. I’ve been wanting to attend one for quite some time and was bummed to miss the big one a couple months ago. This however, made up for it because we covered one of my favorite topics: experience design. Oh wait, yeah, on the iPhone. So, even better.
Continue reading iPhoneDevCampNYC pt.1 - Oh, the People You’ll Meet
Apparently, I’m not the only one considering what we do as interaction designers as a “craft.” Social Design guy Joshua Porter has posted his slides from a presentation he gave on the topic. From his site:
For my talk, I picked something I’ve never talked about before: web craftsmanship. I chose this topic because I’ve been thinking a lot more about it since going out on my own last August. I also consider both Dan and Ethan craftsmen, obsessed with doing quality work vs. gaining notoriety or getting rich. So I thought it would be a good fit for the audience as well.
Passion shouldn’t be about making money (social or physical). Coincidentally, there’s a name for that kind of passion: Greed.
Here’s an interesting little device showing some promise for younger interwebbers.
It seems more like a prototype, proof-of-concept than anything else as it would only have made sense to make it wireless.
It’s apparently a flash-based dev platform running on Linux. So, development should be easy enough.
Okay. So, I’ve always been a big believer in RSS News Feeds, but there are so many good feeds out there, how do you stay on top of them? It’s simple: YOU DON’T. But this little bubble on NetNewsWire’s dock icon made me feel like I always had to catch up!
Continue reading Mac OS X NetNewsWire Tip: No More Thousands of Posts to Read
Always cool when you’re clipping along on something and by complete mistake you discover a great trick. I’m pretty sure most OSes have a simple text editor. Mac OS X’s is called TextEdit. Frankly, I use it for just about every lightweight text-editing because it is so versatile. Last night on my commute home, I was pondering and prioritizing life as I usually do about this time of year â?? something ’bout the upcoming spring me thinks. Well, we hit a bump in the road and my finger nailed ESC and POOF! up comes an autocomplete dialog. Thought that was some pretty awesome usability.
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!Pressing ESC in TextEdit reveals an auto-complete
Tags: autocomplete, TextEdit, trick
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