September 2007
35 posts
A nice wake-up experience
Aurora is awesome. It’s a computer alarm-clock that turns no the machine, starts iTunes and starts playing a playlist I set up. So instead of an annoying buzzer, I can hear some sweet tunes when I wake up. And since I got a nifty little remote, I can switch songs and change volume from bed. For years, I’ve been thinking that alarm clock noises are about the worst experience design...
Halo 3 Videos
Halo 3 looks freakin’ awesome. If I had an XBox 360 and time to waste I would go nuts on it. The design, physics, etc just look incredible. Watch the video in the following link Cinema Paradiso
Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel... →
I’ve been thinking about this topic quite a bit recently. It’s hard to find a good font with character that’s also easy to read. That’s especially the case with Html, where you can’t be sure how things will look eventually. Vista and some version of XP anti-alias fonts, Max OS has it’s own anti-aliasing system, and some XP versions don’t anti-alias (or...
Office Aggression
For some reason people from the office keep sending me links to ‘toy weapons’ they want to buy for the office. Must be a lot of aggression going on that we need to stock up on weaponry now … the toys are kinda cool, I have to admit that, check them here, here and here.
SICK!
Sitting at home with a stuffy head, runny nose, sore throat and feeling hot and cold at the same time is not fun at all. I’m at day three of my late summer cold and counting. It’s so boring to not be able to think straight and do stuff :)
Data Visualization vs. Information Graphics
Data Visualization is pretty neat site that sums up a lot of things that are going on in that area online. The idea of taking data and displaying it in a visual way to make it easy to understand is a really neat idea. Many times the result is something that is cool to look at but you actually understand less of what the content or data is about. Data visualization is nothing new and is used all...
Men want hot women, study confirms - CNN.com - who... →
Windows Features I have given up on
Search Completely useless, since it takes 5 minutes to give me any results. I only use it when I need to talk to somebody else in the office or have a meeting. I’ll start the search, leave the desk and when I come back I hope the search results are in. Such a powerful tool and yet so useless. Imagine Google would take 5 minutes to show you results. Desktop Icons A feature I’ve been...
