The plethora of online Photoshop tutorials demonstrate its power and its flexibility, but I believe they also demonstrate its poor design. Think about it like this: what if each time you plunked down in front of World of Warcraft, you had to spend an hour trying to remember, wait, how do I play this?
I’ve been testing the new Nike+ Running site over the last couple of weeks. The big news is that the previously Flash-powered site has been totally re-written. The new site goes live in June, but if you’re wanting to see what’s coming this FAQ from Nike has the details.
Despite all the protestations about how Tumblr didn’t want to show ads, it seems the 120 million views per day on the Tumblr Dashboard might be just too lucrative.
It’s definitely a shame there’s an about-face with this, however Tumblr is of course a free service backed by VCs who will expect the service to start to produce revenue (and in the longer-term, hopefully profits). For those with Tumblogs (as this one is), these plans doen’t affect the display of Tumblogs themselves as the advertising is launching on the social-hub that each user typically uses to browse blogs they follow and post content via.
[via Mr Hackett]
It’s a little like asking why Hasbro didn’t do Farmville, or why McDonald’s didn’t start Whole Foods … Cultural patterns are pretty hard to escape once you get sucked into them. For instance, Apple and Google are diametrical opposites in so many ways, have all the skills, but neither of them did Instagram, either.
If you’re looking for a solution to serve up retina images in HTML (as opposed to via CSS), this might come in handy. It follows the Apple.com method of always downloading the low-res first - making it bandwidth heavy - but after having spent a fair bit of time looking at options it seems to be perhaps the most easily implemented1 on the majority of sites.
N.B. It’s not perfect - few retina solutions are. Nor is it suitable for everyone’s scenario (hosted blogs on Tumblr such as this being one example). But it’s definitely worth considering. ↩
It’s not yet launched, but it looks like a pretty smart - and well-designed - app and service for planning trips.
Inception — Filming the Corridor and Zero Gravity Scene - Absolutely fascinating video as to how the Inception production team pulled off the corridor fight, via Charles Arthur on Twitter.
Amazon’s UK operations are also poised to benefit from Luxembourg ownership in the battle for the lucrative and fast-growing ebook market. Being based in Luxembourg means it can charge VAT on ebook sales at the local rate of 3% rather than the 20% VAT imposed on British-based ebook retailers.
Imagine everything that is wrong about Android phones and UIs & Google privacy and then strap it to the front of your face.
Huge congrats to my buddy Tim Van Damme and the rest of the Instagram team.
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