- SitePoint Blogs » Microsoft Breaks HTML Email Rendering in Outlook 2007 — Oh god. This is such a terrible, terrible idea.
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- Sinclair A-Bike — Tiny folding bike with tiny wheels from Clive Sinclair. Paul had one last night – looked fairly reasonable for the money, but not for long commutes…
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- Real Empires Ship (Ftrain.com) — "The Romans knew all about productivity. Of course, their version of Getting Things Done would be one word: ‘slaves.’"
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- Michael Grecco – Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait — Wonderful excerpt from Grecco’s book. This is all on lighting portraits, with some fabulous examples and (even better) technique notes and diagrams. One to return to.
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- xPad. The Ultimate Notepad. — xPad – Garrett Murray’s simple little note-taking application – is now freeware. It’s simple, and most useful for jotting tidbits down in.
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- Bethlehem Steel – Shaun O’Boyle — Beautiful pictures of the ruins of some quite remarkable industry.
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- Capistrano Concepts: PeepCode Screencasts for Ruby on Rails Developers — If this is as good as Geoffrey’s other screencasts, it’ll be very useful for me to crack my Capistrano-fear…
Tagged as: ruby rubyonrails rails deployment capistrano - Literature and Latte – Scrivener Gold — Impressive looking writing tool – some lovely concepts around organisation and reference. Must look into this at some point.
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- Friends, friendsters, and top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites — Friendship helps people write community into being in social network sites. Through these imagined egocentric communities, participants are able to express who they are and locate themselves culturally.
Tagged as: friends socialsoftware social networking paper analysis facebook friendster myspace sharing technology sociology research - Preoccupations: Consilience — David’s on fire. Consilience is a wonderful word; one of my watchwords for 2007, too.
Tagged as: ideas play consilience knowledge - cityofsound: My Rating – is – 5 stars AND Year – is – 2006 — Awesome, rich post by Dan Hill on his favourite music of the year. Lots to sink one’s teeth into later, especially his wonderful selections from the YouTube archive
Tagged as: music 2006 video archive summary reread - YouTube video toolbox — Some useful resources on basic film-making collated in one place on YouTube. The stuff on lighting is particularly good.
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- Andy Budd::Blogography: User Centred Design and Agile Development — Andy weighs in on the UCD/Agile clash. Am really thinking about this a lot at the moment.
Tagged as: ucd agile process development design - Clash of the Titans: Agile and UCD :: UXmatters — Resolving the conflicts between UCD and Agile processes. It’s not necessarily as hard as it might seem…
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- receiver – The space to play — "In "The space to play" [Jones] explores themes from his research at Nokia into the universal human urge to play – and how it relates to the way we design our technology, our environments and our future." – Matt Jones on play in Vodafone’s receiver maga
Tagged as: interaction design play ludic ludism flow ux - CS3 In Action | Photoshop User – NAPP — Lots of great screencasts demonstrating the new CS3 interface and functionality
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