June 2010
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“The point of Helvetica is that it is neutral. It is extremely legible. It is not...”
– Will Wiles, in Air Rage, on Gatwick’s rebranding. He’s right: this is awful. The whole piece is worth a read.
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“Ironically, it was I, and not my German roommates, who suffered from that famous...”
– Amelia Atlas in n+1’s Berlin Trilogy, a worth-reading review of three books set in (and, more or less, about) the city. I’m definitely keen to read Book of Clouds, and I wish I could read enough German to make sense of Treffen sich zwei.
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“As an analytical framework, economics can come unstuck when dealing with the...”
– John Naughton in Everything you need to know about the internet, which is deservedly getting linked to everywhere.
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“In short, there’s just too many fundamental issues with the Windows...”
– Russell Beattie: The end of WIMP and the rise of Touch
You could argue this is stating the obvious, but this is still a worthwhile article, since the obvious is often easy to miss.
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“Publishers now have absolutely no control over how their content is displayed in...”
– Jim Lynch, in Safari Reader: Apple’s Weapon of Mass Destruction (via, via)
This chap can’t have been around when Load Images was a browser setting. Or have read the CSS spec, and the assumption that users would be able to apply styles.
Of course, given he’s forced his rant over...
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“For Scott Dadich, the award-winning designer who has overseen Wired US for the...”
– Peter Kirwan quoting Scott Dadich, in Tablets of the new covenant, an article from Wired UK a couple of months ago (via).
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“What we’re hearing here at the Guardian though is that Apple itself helped...”
– Charles Arthur in the Guardian: Why file-sharing has killed ‘unlimited’ mobile data contracts.
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“So when looking for somewhere using the iPhone I had two choices; use an...”
– Augmented Reality: is it a Bit Rubbish? (via iamdanw)
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“One way to increase the perceived value of your application is to replicate the...”
– iPad Human Interface Guidelines: iPad User Experience Guidelines. Apple-mandated bling. Ew.
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Irn-Bru, now in dots
The Irn-Bru can in one of the Washington Post’s trademark stipple portraits, in a story about their quest for a new recipe that doesn’t include artificial colourings; a job that seems, well, difficult, given its “radioactive orange” shade. The headline’s worhth a mention, too: “It Isn’t Iron and It Isn’t Brewed, But Irn-Bru Hews to Its Orange...
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“Huge hit in the hands-on press area. Really easy, very compelling. Interesting...”
– John Gruber on FaceTime, linking to Apple’s product page.
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“This is disappointing beyond words. Why Apple did not choose to implement...”
– Rui Carmo, linking to FaceTime video calling added to iPhone 4… and it’s WiFi-only. 