Boxee Available for Pre-Order in U.S. and Canada : U.S. customers can pre-order at Amazon , and Canadian customers can pre-order at Best Buy and Future Shop . Available soon in most of Europe. The big sell, in Boxee
As I’ve waffled about before on The Hickensian, I’m on the never ending search for the right digital media centre setup. For quite a while now, the PS3 has given me what I want, due to it’s ability to do many things in one package . The only areas where it lets me down is that its too fussy about video formats, and a lack of folders to organise videos on its hard drive. It wins over a HTPC for me, because it’s designed to be controlled by a remote, rather than keyboard and mouse. I also own an original Apple TV. While its 160gb HD isn’t enough for a movie collection, it is for my music, and it grabs new albums from my Mac without me having to think about it… Read the rest here
TypeCon2010 in Los Angeles was my first typography conference. It felt good. I was made welcome, made new friends and renewed old acquaintances . I was there to soak up what’s happening now in typography, and to represent Fontdeck , who were very pleased to be a sponsor of the conference. Luke Dorny, Ale Paul, Grant Hutchinson & Corey Holms TypeCon felt like a tiny SxSW with far prettier schwag. As in Austin, the conference was as much about the corridor talk as the presentations, although 400 people (as opposed to 14,000) lent itself to a far more intimate atmosphere, but there was the same vibe of being allowed to geek out among like-minded souls. … Read the rest here
Jason Grigsby: CSS Media Query for Mobile is Fool
When Apple
Urbanized : Gary Hustwit
An interview with Think Vitamin : While I was in London for the Future of Web Design conference this past May, I had the pleasure of chatting with Keir Whitaker from Carsonified about Dribbble . You can also find the audio over at Huffduffer
Future of Web Design - New York : More about this later, but for now a brief announcement: I
Trent Walton: Trimming the Fat : I completely agree with Trent
Wired on iPad: Just like a Paper Tiger : Oliver Reichenstein
Websites that surprise and delight us : Nice overview of the perhaps unintentional theme running through much of the Future of Web Design London. … Read the rest here
I’ve never over-run on a talk. Ever. Usually I embarrasingly finish around 10 mins early, leaving plenty of time for questions. Until last week at Future of Web Design that is. When it came down to the last 5 minutes, I realised I had a lot more to go, and had to really hurry the last couple of sections. Thankfully the feedback so far has been positive, but I promise this will be (probably) be the last time I talk on this subject. … Read the rest here
Winscape Virtual Windows : When I think of my days as a boy envisioning the future, this is something I might have dreamt of. Sure, it requires the viewer to wear an IR-emitting necklace to realistically change the view outside the
The recent passing of the UK Digital Economy Act has generated outrage amongst the web community. Large media business have effectively lobbied government under the spurious claim that without protection the future of the digital economy in the UK is at threat. However the future of digital isn’t locked inside a few big content companies distributing their goods electronically. The future of the digital economy is in empowering a creative class to produce new and as yet unheard of business opportunities on the web. So rather than protecting the digital economy, the Digital Economy Act will have the effect of protecting outdated business models and harming innovation in the UK and handing over initiative to more liberal and less restrictive countries. One potentially damaging aspect facing UK start-ups and freelancers is the one makes the owners of open wifi networks responsible for the traffic that passes over the network… Read the rest here
In a special edition of the revived Friday Biscuit series, I am happy to honour the save BBC 6 Music campaign by revisiting “Joy Division Oven Gloves”: Well I’ve been here and I’ve been there In me Joy Division oven gloves I’ve been to a post punk postcard fair In me Joy Division ovengloves Talk to the hand Talk to the hand In me Joy Division oven gloves Dance, dance, dance Daaaaaaaaaaaaance! In me Joy Division oven gloves Why? Because the Save BBC 6 Music campaign is trying to get Joy Division Oven Gloves to number 6 in the singles charts this weekend. So whip out your credit card and fork out 49p on a great song, and see if we can get Half Man Half Biscuit to subvert the charts (channel your inner Malcolm Mclaren, RIP ). You have until the end of Saturday 10th April for your purchase to count . At the time of writing, Joy Division Oven Gloves is at number 2 in the Amazon mp3 chart and number 57 in the UK iTunes chart. What’s all this 6 Music kerfuffle about anyway… Read the rest here
The central theme of Mobile Web Design was carefully and thoughtfully built on the assumption that the browser will always provide the most consistent, reliable medium for users of web content, and the most open and sustainable platform for developers of the same
Relink: MEX Manifesto Predicts
Helvetireader², the minimal & anti-social theme for Google Reader, is now out . Sort of. It’s an unfinished and ongoing project, but it’s in a ‘ready as it’ll ever be’ state. Helvetireader is simply a hosted user stylesheet for Google Reader served via a user script. It aims to make the interface a clean, minimal experience where you’re not assaulted by an array of colours, lines, social features and buttons. As it removes these bits, and is designed for the expanded view only, you may not like it. … Read the rest here
As Jon Hicks wrote a few days ago, the House of Lords recently passed the Digital Economy Bill . The bill panders to big players in the music industry is being hurried through without due democratic process, clearly intended to be made law before the election. Unsurprisingly the driving force behind it is Lord ‘Mandy’ Mandelson, the Business Secretary; a powerful but unelected passive-aggressive imposition. Through the partly Clearleft designed 38 Degrees , I wrote to my local MP , the retiring Des Turner , to present my objections, and to urge him to speak out against rushing through the Digital Economy Bill without due debate and process. … Read the rest here