September 2009

Flickr Gallery of Sydney’s Red Dust Storm

Absolutely gorgeous photos, most of which are straight out of people’s cameras. Curator, Tom Coates, summed it up best: Difficult for me to describe how beautiful this one is in any way that would exceed the photo itself.




One Billion-Pixel Mosaic of the Galactic Center Region

Oh my stars. (Via Jordan Smith.)




Daring Serif Style for NetNewsWire

A re-link in honor of NetNewsWire 2.0 for iPhone. Because “when reading lots of text on a MacBook Pro, I prefer a serif. lots of text on iPhone, sans. Lots of text in a book, coffee.” (Via me.)




Geoff Teehan’s Home Screen Proposal

This may be the most attractive proposal for a new iPhone home screen I’ve seen. Though Cameron and Sean don’t think it would be too useful, I would happily trade it as my new default.




“Rise of the Tablog”

Man, I think Nick is spot on: The result of all this is that it’s even harder to find blogs that you can read for pleasure. (Via Patrick.)




Rule 389

Maybe Lamond’s best advice yet.




Share on Tumblr From Fever

How to add Tumblr sharing to your Fever feed reader. (Via LKM’s Stuff.)




Widescreen Hack for Yojimbo 2

John Hicks updates his 3-panel widescreen hack to work with Yojimbo 2.0.




“Writing in the Age of Distraction”

Cory Doctorow: The single worst piece of writing advice I ever got was to stay away from the Internet… Cory’s advice reminds me a lot of Natalie Goldberg’s tone in Writing Down the Bones: just write.




Custom Fluid Style for Simplenote

John Hicks wrote some custom CSS to better use Simplenote in Fluid. Also, the Simplenote crew has posted hi-res versions of their icon. Even though it’s exponentially more ugly at 550 pixels than at 57, at least it will match … (More)




Sebastiaan de With’s Snow Leopard UI Roundup

Awesome as always. And I did not know about those new Exposé tricks.




Minimal Desktop Day

Love scoping out other people’s computer desktops? Today is your day.




Postbox

A new $40 desktop email client for Mac and Windows that boasts some tall-order features, such as a Gmail-style conversation view and the ability to search through attachments only.




BezelHUD for Quicksilver on Snow Leopard

This Quicksilver interface is, in my opinion, the best Quicksilver interface. It broke on QS version B56a7 for Snow Leopard, but Ben Cochran has updated it. (Via Julius.)




Colin Devroe Talks to Steven and Cabel About Coda

Steven Frank: “The next stop for Coda is 2.0.” Also, Colin’s input from web developers regarding text editors is right on par with what’s seen in the Mac Setups: by far the most-used editor is TextMate.




Append Text Without Quicksilver

And the move to LaunchBar gets easier and easier.




‘La Premiere’

A very likable short film based on the story of the Lumiere Brothers and the invention of the cinema as we know it. Also worth watching (if not even more so than La Premiere), is The Butterfly Circus.




Yojimbo 2.0

The long-awaited, somewhat-doubted update to Yojimbo. It’s $20 to upgrade, unless you bought version 1.5 in the past 9 months. Yojimbo 2.0 comes with a polished UI, a new icon, and a slew of well thought-out usability additions related to … (More)




Fusion Ads’ Newest Members

Jon Hicks and Minimal Mac join the network. Nice.




First & 20

An extremely clever and fun website by Tory Hobson showcasing iPhone Home Screens. There’s a great lineup of people so far, including yours truly.