Tumblr (3.0; @billwesterman)http://blog.utilware.com/http://blog.utilware.com/post/8943812161http://blog.utilware.com/post/8943812161Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:54:41 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpm84tuR6A1qz4s3wo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://inspire.2ia.pl/post/8710687210">szymon</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://carlidavidson.photoshelter.com/gallery/Shake/G0000s_trsF9CDFI/">Shake</a> series by Carli Davidson</p> </blockquote>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8722141895http://blog.utilware.com/post/8722141895Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:46:17 -0700<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpodppP2OV1qzqoz3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Epidermits” (via <a href="http://www.kartendesign.com/paradigm-shifting/starting-conversations/cautionary-visions/">KARTEN:DESIGN — Product Innovation » Cautionary Visions</a>)</p>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8698896684http://blog.utilware.com/post/8698896684Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:20:13 -0700<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpo5dfqyIz1qz4mo8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://jstn.cc/post/8692501831">jstn</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>This is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT220">VT220</a> serial console (circa 1983) set up as a terminal for my Mac Pro (circa 2010), a nerdy dream I’ve had for a long time that I finally made a reality yesterday.</p> <p><a href="http://jstn.cc/post/8692501831">Read more</a></p> </blockquote> <p>This just warms the soft, puddly parts of my brain that were raised on DEC, VMS, and DCL.  Mmmmm, DCL.</p>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8695717123http://blog.utilware.com/post/8695717123Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:53:16 -0700tech“The mouse is a desktop device. Sure, you can bring a portable one to hook up to your laptop on the go — but just look at young people, kids in college and high school. They don’t do that. The only reason some of us do that is because we’re accustomed to the mouse.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/27/the-mouse-is-dead/">The Mouse Is Dead. I Just Killed It. Now Can We Move On? | TechCrunch</a></em>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8499150123http://blog.utilware.com/post/8499150123Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:13:05 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpf4rj0vkD1qzqoz3o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><strong>“Just think: the dream of working 24/7”</strong></p> <p>From a GoGo In-Flight promo email. I’m still trying to figure it out - did they say that ironically, or not? (Circle and arrow mine.)</p>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8480708474http://blog.utilware.com/post/8480708474Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:28:00 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpezlmyux11qzqoz3o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Mike Mitchell, this one’s for you.</p> <p>(via <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/03/iphone-android-profit/">The iPhone Actually Has No Competition Where It Matters Most | TechCrunch</a>)</p>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8476690906http://blog.utilware.com/post/8476690906Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:36:58 -0700<p>Wondering how many times the “Think of the environment! Don’t print this!” footer at the bottom of some people’s emails ended up creating a second, nearly blank page when someone printed out the email.</p>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8429779061http://blog.utilware.com/post/8429779061Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:38:04 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp04d6flj81qzqoz3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/before-and-after-shots-of-jogg">Before and After Shots of Joggers - My Modern Metropolis</a>)</p>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8416341887http://blog.utilware.com/post/8416341887Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:51:05 -0700<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpbnp86HMy1qzqoz3o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Is it just me, or is it all pixelated in here?*</strong></p> <p>Despite all the jumping up and down about the second coming of Spotify, I’m still a big fan of my various Pandora streams - and yes, I’m a paying subscriber.</p> <p>However, the Pandora desktop client suffers from the same pixelation disease that’s seen in a broad range of apps based on Adobe Air and/or Adobe Flash: when apps resize an image, the engine doesn’t do any interpolation of the pixels - it just shrinks the image and hacks out the extra pixels, leaving behind a bundle of jagged edges. I mean, just look at where it says “Global” and “Paul van Dyk”. Do the same resize in Photoshop, Acorn, or any of a thousand photo apps, and it would be a hundred times cleaner. Worse yet, text rendering is painful - like how close the “ce” are at the end of “Trance” in the upper right.</p> <p>As a result, my Pandora launch sequence is pretty much set in stone: click the icon, and immediately hit Command-H to hide.</p> <p>Hey Pandora, any chances of writing a script to go through all of your cover art images and resize them to 238x231 (and, for bonus points, 200x200 for the zoomed out view), and start pushing those along with the streams, instead of the defaults?</p> <p>* Actual, unretouched image</p>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8416062397http://blog.utilware.com/post/8416062397Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:43:05 -0700pandoraux<a href="http://www.touchusability.com/blog/2011/7/24/lion-trackpad-gestures.html">Touch Usability - Touch Usability - Lion Trackpad Gestures</a>: <p>When people start writing explanatory blog posts about gestures, you’ve jumped the shark, Apple.</p>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8395516838http://blog.utilware.com/post/8395516838Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:08:47 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp9lsn5fVn1qzqoz3o1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp9lsn5fVn1qzqoz3o2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p><strong>First-run experience for Bloomberg app on Android tablet</strong></p> <p>When you first run the Bloomberg app on an Android tablet, here’s what you see: two pages of indecipherable text, in one giant screen-width column. And worse yet, when you get through it all and expect to hit ‘Agree’, you accidentally hit ‘Disagree’ because it’s in the lower-right-hand corner of the screen where people have been putting ‘Agree’ and ‘Confirm’ and ‘OK’ for the past, what, 10 years?</p>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8350519698http://blog.utilware.com/post/8350519698Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:50:47 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh6akmx0wh1qea4hso1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://littlebigdetails.com/post/8261867975" class="tumblr_blog">littlebigdetails</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.panic.com/coda/">Coda</a> - When ordering and choosing the amount of copies, the word “copy” after the inputbox changes automatically to the correct grammatical form. </p> <p>/via Reinder</p></blockquote> <p>But what if you want 12 copies? How does that work?</p>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8269442985http://blog.utilware.com/post/8269442985Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:53:34 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp4n8q4aLK1qzqoz3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Too Damn Tall, Diner Edition</p>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8243380204http://blog.utilware.com/post/8243380204Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:34:05 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp2bzkDuVy1qzqoz3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Fishbot</strong></p> <p>Drew this one on a letter to our son, who’s going away to sleepover camp.</p>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8206262732http://blog.utilware.com/post/8206262732Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:21:05 -0700dotbot<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loyw0sOZLH1qzqoz3o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://contrastrebellion.com/">Contrast Rebellion - to hell with low-contrast fonts!</a>)</p>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8108012895http://blog.utilware.com/post/8108012895Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:58:04 -0700“For those of you under the age of 25, a magazine is a blog made out of trees”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.cultofmac.com/how-the-editor-of-windows-magazine-became-an-apple-fanboy/105882">How the Editor of Windows Magazine Became an Apple Fanboy | Cult of Mac</a></em>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8094937041http://blog.utilware.com/post/8094937041Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:08:23 -0700<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loxdwpPAkw1qzqoz3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Dinner, revisited.</strong></p>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8075064597http://blog.utilware.com/post/8075064597Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:29:13 -0700dotbot<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lovnweAMNB1qhymn9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://enochliew.tumblr.com/post/8035381285" class="tumblr_blog">enochliew</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Heffer Pitcher by Chiasso</p></blockquote>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8043044626http://blog.utilware.com/post/8043044626Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:43:12 -0700<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lndm3x0QaY1qb5y9po1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Don’t come a-knockin’ when the bed’s a-rockin’, youknowwhatimean?</p>http://blog.utilware.com/post/8008648737http://blog.utilware.com/post/8008648737Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:32:59 -0700