∞ How-To: Get Rid of the Glass Dock in Leopard
Historically, I don’t customize much of the OS and Apple’s defaults are typically right on the mark for me. Not the case with the new Dock. My biggest complaint is the extra space required for the reflections. Take those away and you can shrink the Dock back down while still being able to see things clearly.
∞ The Superest
A continually running character illustration battle drawn by Kevin Cornell, Matthew Sutter and guests.
∞ Flat input buttons in Leopard?
Are you noticing flat, odd-looking form input buttons in Safari 3 as well? Todd Dominey figured out why.
∞ Web Directions North ‘08
Canada’s finest web conference has been announced once again. I had an absolute blast last year, and am sad to miss it this time around (the lineup looks fantastic). The Vancouver/Whistler area is beautiful, and the conference/ski combo makes for quite a trip.
U-489
We arrived at the bed & breakfast in the Berkshires and my headache had worsened. Forgot to pack some Advil. Damn. I went in the front door of the inn and an old man asked if I needed help.
“Hi, I was wondering if you had any aspirin?”
“Well I dunno. Let’s see what she has!”
Well that’s odd, I thought, assuming there was a little store inside — or at least those little individual packets for sale. Must be the owner of the inn. Maybe “she” runs the shop in the lobby. He led me to a large living room where an old woman sat in a chair by the fireplace.
“This gentlemen is looking for some aspirin.”
“Hmm, lemme see,” she said, as she plunged her left hand deep into her left pants pocket. She must’ve fished around in there for a good 20 seconds.
“Ah ha! I found one,” pulling something out. She then carefully tipped her hand so the pill would softly fall into the old man’s palm (so that he could walk over to me and do the same).
I looked down at a single white pill in my hand. *U-489* was imprinted on it (or something like that), with no other clue that this was indeed an over-the-counter pain reliever.
I clenched my fist around it and said, “Thanks”.
“Come prepared!” the old man shouted as I walked down the steps outside, firing the mysterious pill into the bushes.
I’ll never leave home without aspirin again.
Comments OffOct 23, 2007•life
∞ The Marble of Doom
“… the OS X spinning wait cursor is well-known and well-dreaded by Mac users around the world.” Enter time wasted in OS X and commiserate with other other beachball (what I’ve always called it) watchers worldwide.
∞ Is it Christmas?
Find out here.
∞ The Human Icon T-Shirt
Please call my agent for more t-shirt modeling requests. Cottyn’s brand new tee is now available! And dare I say it’s the most comfortable shirt I’ve ever worn. Don’t even try to hack it this time, Mr. Rubin.
∞ U-Haul’s ems
Had to rent a van today to pick up a new/used dining room set. What I was surprised to find, is a fine example of an elastic (em-based) layout on a large corporate site.
∞ Findings From the Web Design Survey
A List Apart’s beautifully organized PDF of April 2007’s first-ever survey of web design and development professionals. 33,000 responses of really useful and interesting data. Congrats to all involved.
∞ Pixel It poster
“… consists of two layers of paper. Cuts on the white outer layer allow the user to fold parts out and therefore create a ‘Pixel-Structure’ by showing the coloured layer underneath.” Does want (via unstoppabot).
∞ Big Red Angry Text
“… a simple, but effective way to give an extreme visual example to show the editors that something has gone horribly wrong.” Clever way of calling out non-semantic elements via ugly CSS rules.
∞ Location, location, location (doesn’t matter as much)
Brian Oberkirch on current discussions regarding location (and whether it matters). See also our podcast from last year’s SXSW on the very same topic.
