Sex, lies, and the Microsoft blogger laptop scandal

Sex, lies, and the Microsoft blogger laptop scandal. Ars Technica provides insights into the recent matter of Microsoft sending influential bloggers nice laptops preloaded with Windows Vista.

Mac OS X font managers

Review of Mac OS X font managers. Dave Girard at Ars Technica gives a in-depth comparison of font management software for OS X. I’m partial to Linotype’s FontExplorer X myself, mainly for it’s excellent usability and handy cache cleaning tools, though I’ve also run into activation problems on occasion (with Quark 6.5 on a G5) and it does indeed royally suck.

The .im domain branding

One of my photographs has been used by design agency the fifth kingdom for the latest set of adverts pushing the Isle of Man .im domain. Which is nice… (more…)

OmniPlan v1.0 released

OmniPlan v1.0 released. If you’ve switched to a Mac and are having Microsoft Project withdrawals, this app may ease your hunger. John Gruber called it “a complex, over-designed monster” but I’m not sure there’s any way to make a project management application simple, the type of person that uses this software tends to hanker after more & more features so finding a nice balance must’ve been hard. Worth a look if it’s up your street.

Top 10 requested bug fixes in IE7

Top 10 requested bug fixes in IE7. Roger Johansson writes another wishlist of bugfixes for Microsoft’s latest browser. I’m must admit to being somewhat baffled that a company as large as Microsoft can’t get the majority of these right; I know that the other browsers aren’t perfect, but the fact that they’re still so much better than Redmond’s latest flagship does boggle the mind.

Daring Fireball:The Iniquities of the Selfish

The Iniquities of the Selfish. John Gruber crunches the numbers of the current MacHeist independent Mac software promotion/bundle. Excellent analysis, showing that the indies are being taken advantage of and that MacHeist’s charitable claims are somewhat disingenuous.

Google vs. Yahoo: FIGHT!

Google vs. Yahoo: FIGHT! A designer at Google did a naughty thing by ripping off Yahoo’s IE7 promo page. Matt Cutt’s from Google apologises, but then calls Yahoo out on the issue of stealing their AdWords designs. I think a fight at 4 o’ clock by the bikesheds is the best way to resolve this dispute :)

Mail.app’s handling of signatures is awful

macosxhints.com — A possible fix for vanishing Mail signatures. Yet another person complaining about Mail.app’s handling of signatures, and trying to provide some vague voodoo fix. I like Mail.app, but the signature-handling code is terrible: adding signatures to accounts is buggy, the app provides a seemingly random default signature for accounts without any signature set, it crashes (in a not easily repeatable way) if you edit or remove the auto-placed signature text, etc. I really hope Apple fix this in Leopard.

Moustaches, goatees, and beards. Discuss.

Moustaches, goatees, and beards. Discuss. Off-the-wall discussion on beards, by web designers. When I asked Gypo from Rhysical Pheck how he would describe themselves, he replied, “Beard music.”

UPDATE: Here’s an MP3 from the Pheck: Icarus (~3MB MP3)

Photojournalism with flip-book style animation

Iraqi Kurdistan by Ed Kashi. Can’t say I’m that much of a fan, I prefer it when the concept is stronger rather than just bunching together all your shots and pausing on the good one. However, what it does illustrate nicely is that capturing “the decisive moment”, as famously described by Henri Cartier-Bresson, is much, much easier thanks to digital cameras…

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