I own a lot of Apple gear. The current list includes:
All of these systems boot and run with the exception of one of the SEs and the Pismo.
I picked up a Twelve South Compass iPad stand today at the Apple Store. If you use your iPad without a case, you need this little guy in your life. It’s handsome, well-made and a lot heavier than it looks. Which makes it quite sturdy, even when typing on the iPad. The rubber feet and insets grip the iPad to keep it from moving, and keep the stand from scratching it. You won’t regret having it around.
Adam Saltsman on Canabalt’s physics:
Like we talked about earlier, the screen is 480 pixels wide by 160 pixels tall. The fastest possible speed for the player is 800 pixels per second, which in game scale translates to something like 80 meters per second, or 286 kilometers per hour! That’s pretty fast. But with a 480 pixel wide view, with the player on the extreme left, the player still has more than half a second (480/800) to react to whatever the game throws at them. This is a pretty good window, the limits of human reflexes for unexpected events is somewhere in the neighborhood of 0.3 seconds I think? According to hardcore Street Fighter players anyways. So even at it’s most intense, Canabalt is, technically, playable by humans.
Robert Biggs at CSS3 Wizardry:
Microsoft has been bombarding the media with claims about how much better IE9 is than all the other browsers, more HTML5 and CSS3 compliant than any other browser that ever existing and ever will. It’s the only browser that passes all the tests they made up. And, Microsoft has finally implemented the CSS3 selectors that were implemented by other browsers back in, what? 2003? Because Microsoft has updated IE to support CSS3 selectors and rounded corners, they want us to believe that somehow IE9 magically supports the whole slew of CSS3 visual styling. I’m afraid it doesn’t. As a matter of fact, IE9′s support for CSS3 visual styling is so poor that the results are shocking. Firefox, Chrome and Safari can render graphically rich interfaces using the sophisticated features of CSS3. IE9 does, well, rounded corners. That’s why I’m saying: IE9 is the IE6 of CSS3. Repeat that a few times until it sinks in because if you do Web development, you’re going to have to deal with it.
I love this attention to detail, and I love the article that text comes from even more.
For those of us who spend most of their time in Markdown, this tool allows to simply type a document using the Markdown syntax, and visualize its HTML equivalent immediately in a web-powered window, without leaving the app. In other words, it does the Markdown to HTML conversion in a breeze, and lets you email the resulting files. Use it in conjunction with your text editor on your workstation, or just email directly to your blog…
After taking a closer look at Apple’s latest iPhone 4 Retina Display ad, we noticed the scene about Twitter. We thought it would be interesting to plug the Twitter profile username from the ad into the actual Twitter to see if it was legit. Sure enough it is, and has a whole army of people with headshot-grade picture followers. Meet Apple’s fake Twitter army, full of perfect profile portraits, perfect names, and perfect tweets.
Moleskine introduces two new hybrid tools designed for making it easier the simultaneous use of paper, phone and internet utilities: a Smartphone Covercompatible with iPhone 3G and 3GS, and a Tablet Cover, iPad compatible. Both Covers are combined with blank notebook pages. They are conceived as analog-digital ultra-portable workstations for the contemporary nomads.
This is cool; Moleskine products are excellent. I keep a large ruled notebook in my bag at all times for quick notes, thoughts or doodles. I can’t wait to see one of these cases in the wild.
I’ve got a new wallpaper on my machines. It’s homemade with Mueso Slab and a stolen copy of the Rebel Alliance logo. You can download a 1440 × 900 version here. If you center it and choose “Tungsten” as the background color, it matches perfectly.
That’s some great design advice from Chris Clark, designer at of iOS apps at Black Pixel, in an interview with Lukas Mathis.