Apple just released a bunch of new iPod Shuffles the other day, and although I’m a huge fan of the color orange and that’s one of them, that’s not what’s inspiring this post.
No, what’s behind this is my continued thinking (dreaming) about the iPhone. With its 4 or 8 GB storage capacity (2-6 GB for stuff outside the OS), I’ve been thinking about how it will fit into my life (and those of others) as a possible iPod replacement. After all, much of Apple’s target audience for the iPhone is users who carry both a cell phone or a smart phone in conjunction with an iPod.
Those of use who were reared on the old-school hard-disk based iPods that have up to 80 GB of space, tend to have enormous music collections as a result of all of this capacity. Mine is upwards of 25GB, and I know there’s more on the way. So, what are we to do with a measly 6 GB of space on our new device?
One word: Shuffle.
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Written on January 31, 2007 Filed under Apple
New toys make for fun playing. I recently found myself fortunate enough to pick up a new MacBook Pro, complete with the Parallels Desktop and Photoshop CS3 Beta. Well, one thing lead to another and then, kablammo, a new look for the website. It was great fun working on it and I discovered the killer Preview Theme plugin in the process.
I heart CSS :-D
Feel free to post thoughts in the comments!
Written on January 26, 2007 Filed under Life; Web
Since switching from the written content-heavy world of academia to the more photo and data-driven world of retail, I’ve been inundated with tables. There’s really nothing new about this— tables have been the web designer’s best friend since 1996. But as the web matures, we’re realizing that tables needn’t be (and shouldn’t be) used for layout purposes, but rather for the tabular data that the W3C had intended them to be used.
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Written on January 21, 2007 Filed under Code; Web
I had the fortunate pleasure to read two great articles on clean markup and web standards back to back on my bus/ferry ride home from work the other day. The first, How to Grok Web Standards, by Craig Cook on A List Apart, and the second Markup as a Craft, by Garret Dimon over on Digital Web.
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Written on January 15, 2007 Filed under Code; Day Job; Web
After sleeping on the iPhone for a couple of days and thinking about my initial thoughts regarding it and its ability to sync with different software, etc., I ‘ve come to the following conclusions/opinions:
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Written on January 11, 2007 Filed under Apple
Ah Macworld… It’s one of at least two days per year the entire Macintosh community can gather around the proverbial fire in eager anticipation of something cool.
So, what’d we get?
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Written on January 10, 2007 Filed under Apple