Author Archives: Dylan Damian

Digital Arts - The eight secrets that make Apple No 1

The secrets of Apple’s growing success. Highly recommended reading.
Digital Arts - Blogs - Digital Arts - The eight secrets that make Apple No 1
(via Core77 Design Blog)

WordPress and the one and only loop

Grrr. Looks like I’ve run into a serious limitation of WordPress, namely the lack of blog aggregation. It turns out you can only have one loop on any given page, therefore you cannot merge two (or more) blogs. Why would you want to do that? To have a sideblog or linkblog. Here’s a good explanation. […]

Welcome to Scrybe

Woot! Joined the Scrybe beta after receiving an email invite yesterday.

Bloglines Beta First Impressions

Bloglines just announced the launch of Bloglines v3 in a beta open to the public. The announcement reads:
Blogliners we’re proud to introduce a beta of our latest redesign of Bloglines. Our About Beta overview outlines the key features a personalizable home page, 3 reading-views and drag-and-drop foldering in an Ajax interface. […]

20+ Free And Fresh Icon Sets | Graphics

Even more great icon sets linked through the comments. 
20+ Free And Fresh Icon Sets | Graphics

Micro Persuasion: Identity Through Online Lifestreams

 Steve Rubel has also started a tumblelog at his personal site.
Micro Persuasion: Identity Through Online Lifestreams

uncov / Like You Didn’t See This Coming (facebook)

I have an account but all I remember off Facebook is the High School Classmates ads plastered over the site. Uncov rocks.
uncov / Like You Didn't See This Coming (facebook)

Has anyone on the Apple Environmental Team seen an AT&T bill? « The General Theory of RIAtivity

Has anyone on the Apple Environmental Team seen an AT&T bill? « The General Theory of RIAtivity
Totally. 

Shawn Blanc » The Brent Simmons Interview

Great quote from the developer of the fantastic NetNewsWire.
A third thing is that, at heart, I’m an extreme minimalist. An anti-pack-rat. NetNewsWire has a bunch of features, yes, no doubt — but were I not compelled by my temperament to prune and cut and simplify obsessively, it would be, well, a very different app.
I was […]

iPhone’s keyboard is “2x slower” than “other phones” | The Boy Genius Report

I call bull.
It seems that a survey company, namely one conducted by Chicago-based consulting firm User Centric, seems to indicate the following: The iPhone’s keyboard is slower than your average phone keypad. How much slower? Roughly 2x as slow, taking study participants almost twice as long to compose messages than it did on other QWERTY-equipped […]