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What is Graphic Design?

2008-02-09T19:26:00.001Z

Six Steps, inserito originariamente da riccard0.

My feeble entry for Veerle’s What is Graphic Design Poster Competition.

Camino Metamark AppleScript

2007-11-24T10:28:00.000Z

It seems that Metamark is the new TinyURL.

Since I can’t really like Safari, I hacked a slightly different version of Jason Snell's AppleScript in order to use it with my browser of choice.

So, without further ado, here it is:

tell application "Camino"
 set longURL to URL of current tab of window 1
end tell

set shellScript to ("curl --url \"http://metamark.net/api/rest/simple?long_url=" & longURL & "\" ")

set shortURL to (do shell script shellScript)

set the clipboard to shortURL

This AppleScript should get the url of the active tab in your frontmost window in Camino, pass it to Metamark and insert the shortened version in the clipboard, ready to be pasted.

Please keep in mind that it is my first ever AppleScript, so I cannot guarantee that it works on your system, nor help you debug it.

Mail from foreign countries

2007-06-08T18:01:00.000+01:00

The Zeldman writes about HTML in e-mails. A good read, as often it is, which point is that e-mail was, and still is, a pure text medium.

Then, he concludes:

ASCII means never having to say you’re sorry.

Well, after all these years, I was hoping that e-mail could have been ready at least for Unicode.

The real face of computer game addiction

2007-05-03T14:21:00.001+01:00

Step aside Desktop Tower Defense, and damn you, fish! ;-)

09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

2007-05-02T09:41:00.000+01:00

Keep it around.

Evolution

2007-01-18T14:48:00.000Z

1977
Apple Computer
2007
Apple
2037
(The Company Formerly Known as Apple)

Periodic inconsistencies

2006-12-21T21:37:00.000Z

Apparently the opinions about the new icons for Adobe CS3 products are strong and varied.

As for me, I have a little personal nitpick that I haven’t yet seen elsewhere: a disturbing inconsistence in naming conventions. In particular, that regarding Illustrator: why, oh, why its is the only icon in which the “A” from Adobe is present?

Yes, I know, the extension for the file format itself is .ai, the name itself is not a compound of two words, and so on.

But, let aside the fact that Illustrator is maybe one of the less likely candidate as a flagship product, I suspect that the real reason of this naming anomaly is that it would have been difficult to cram a single icon with something like APsLr.

And, speaking of Adobe naming inconsistencies, there’s another that bite me daily:

In the long forgotten days of non-X systems I would have promptly renamed the offender, but somehow, the big cats don’t allow the same level of confidence in non breaking things with actions apparently so mundane.

Update: It seems that I'm not alone in this (via Daring Fireball).

CSS Mastery iPod Giveaway

2006-12-19T18:31:00.000Z

Dear Father Christmas,

do you prefer to being called Santa? Well, as they say, de gustibus non disputandum est.

Anyway, I’m going to explain why you should bring me down that chimney a brand spanking new copy of CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions from the esteemed authors Andy Budd, Cameron Moll and Simon Collison.

You see, this precious tome is in English and since doesn’t yet exist an Italian translation (and, by the way, if such thing could be made, it will be ready just in time for the release of Internet Explorer 9, and it will be an awful translation anyway) it is crystal clear that I need it now and I need it badly.

You can see it by yourself: please, look around, be my guest, read something. It’s self evident that I deserve a better understanding both of the English language and of CSS!

Not convinced yet? Let’s put it this way: this present would be a collective one. That is, if you give me the book, many people will benefit from the deal. Even now, friends and acquaintances turn to me for tips and wisdom about both English and CSS (go figure!) so, through this book I will be able to enlighten many people with the real wisdom of authorities.

So, dear Santa, thank you very much for this unexpected (but I must say, well deserved) gift. See you next year.

Yours truly

iBog

2006-12-07T16:39:00.000Z

I'm wondering if that piece of hardware from that soft company will continue to be on the top headlines until they manage to come up with a less horrible version.

Remember: any publicity is good publicity.

Lingua angla

2006-11-05T18:47:00.000Z

As they say: first post!