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The Microsoft iPod

By Emile • Feb 27th, 2006 • Category: Design, Entertainment, General, WWW

While working on some more serious and less frivolous posts, I came across this post at The Unofficial Apple Weblog - the video is hysterical, but the veracity of the punchline is alarming. Hit play and see for yourself:



The best way to learn XHTML??

By Emile • Feb 7th, 2006 • Category: General, WWW

Anyone have any ideas on the best way to learn XHTML? This coming from a partly self-reformed former HTML tables kind of guy. Books, links, etc. are all welcome.
Thanks!



Google, Gmail, and the Delete Button

By Emile • Jan 27th, 2006 • Category: Design, General, Software, WWW

Google idealism of “do no evil”, while admirable, is still not necessarily practical. What I mean by that is that Gmail users like myself have contended with the fact that Google thought, in their original release of Gmail, that 1gig of space is so profuse and excessive that users would never really need to […]



What’s really behind a Steve Jobs keynote

By Emile • Jan 18th, 2006 • Category: Design, Entertainment, General, WWW

I imagine most of us could imagine most of these things, but I’ve never seen it articulated so well. See what I mean…



Google Earth is officially released for Mac!!

By Emile • Jan 10th, 2006 • Category: General, Software, WWW

After a long, long wait, we Mac users can rejoice in the beauty that is Google Earth. Download it here.



Tweaked

By Emile • Dec 31st, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General, WWW

Before doing any serious upgrading to Wordpress 2.0, which I’m debating, I managed to tweak the site a bit using some tips care of Paul Stamatiou. Go check it out.
Also, I love footers with this style (care of Tauqil.com). Expect to see something like this in both Elvgren and Taft! With a […]



Being a Pro…

By Emile • Dec 31st, 2005 • Category: Design, General, Software, WWW

In more recent updates, I caved and finally upgraded to a Pro Flickr account. There just isn’t another fun and easy way to share 450 photos of the holidays with friends and family, comments, notes, and all. If there is at least, I don’t know of it. I was/am a beta-tester of […]



Problems with Web 2.0

By Emile • Dec 18th, 2005 • Category: Design, General, Software, WWW

I’ve read a lot about this, most especially by the seeming clairvoyants over at InfoWorld. What happens when all this networked stuff breaks? Could I ever lose my work and time spent tagging my bookmarks? Couldn’t Yahoo just decide to charge me one day to access them again? I know I […]



Way to go Ars!

By Emile • Dec 18th, 2005 • Category: Design, General, Software, WWW

For those not following any of the recent negative buzz surrounding Apple’s Aperture 1.0, you should start by scouring the web for most of the reviews that have labeled it as phenomenal and a ‘must-have’, then read the initial review at Ars Technica. The latter, while having been demonized as an Aperture bash-fest or […]



A nice introduction to AJAX

By Emile • Dec 15th, 2005 • Category: Design, General, Programming, Software, WWW, Wordpress

For those looking for a nice intro to AJAX, both Michael of Binary Bonsai and IBM Developer Works have writeups. Michael’s is more about the Scriptaculous JavaScript library, but it’s worth reading. You can find Michael’s writeup here and IBM’s writeup here.
The scant posts here at SWL are a product of a lot […]