I know some of you are having a hard time reading this blog if you hold it with your left hand, so I am including a FREE bumper for the blog!!!
Oh and in other news, Steve Jobs just curbstomped 3 million fanboys in the most awesome keynote I have ever seen.
In my opinion, the press conference should have gone like this:
Steve Jobs walks out into the stage, there is an olde tyme cash register in the center. He comes out, starts taking questions, but as soon as the reporters start talking, he starts hitting the drawer lever on the cash register with the classic “KA-CHING!” sound that they make. He puts his hand up to his ear and says “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of all the money the iPhone4 is making!!!!”
This goes on for about an hour, and then the “One more thing” at the end is that they are no longer going to be making the Mac Pro.
The iPhone just got more 4.0.
The curtain has been pulled back on iPhone 4, and the list of new features is massive: There’s multitasking (finally!), a refreshed interface, and literally hundreds of other changes, all coming this summer. Here’s the rundown.The new OS will ship in June (Fall for iPad, and a developer preview is available today, so we can expect to have plenty of apps updated and ready for launch.
Check it out over at our friends Gizmodo:
http://gizmodo.com/5512635/iphone-os-40-the-best-new-features
Smashing Magazine wants me to start using CSS3 today. Well, if Smashing Magazine says to do it, I better do it! From their article today:
We have been publishing articles about CSS3 for a while now, and we keep receiving angry e-mails from some developers who complain that it doesn’t make sense to use CSS3 today. Yes, Internet Explorer doesn’t support most CSS3 properties. And yes, CSS3 vendor prefixes are bad for maintainability (and this is why we recommend extracting vendor prefixes in a separate CSS3 file).
But it’s OK to accept that Web is a dynamic medium, and it’s OK to create rich, interactive, beautiful designs for those who are already using a modern browser or will be using one soon. It just doesn’t make sense to keep looking back, being afraid of looking forward and therefore avoid experimenting and learning about new CSS3 properties today. And this is why we keep publishing articles about CSS3.
There’s no official logo or image for CSS3, since it’s an abstraction of a style language, so instead I’ll put up another “3rd version” of something which is equally awesome:
My prediction? Pain. Keep on reading, and hopefully learning, here:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/06/17/start-using-css3-today-techniques-and-tutorials/
WordPress 3.0 was released today, and I am pretty excited for it. This blog is 3.0 in fact, though it doesn’t make use of many of the new features, I plan on building sites soon that will. This is a huge step in the right direction for functional, easy to setup CMS systems, without having to have the MASSIVE code and knowledge overhead of Joomla or Drupal. For most small/medium sized websites, I can see WordPress 3.0 being the new engine to build your custom site on.
The official annoucement is here: http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/
Are you wondering what is new in Photoshop CS5? Me neither! But here’s the article about it
Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 software redefines digital imaging with a strong focus on photography; breakthrough capabilities for superior image selections, image retouching, and realistic painting; and a wide range of workflow and performance enhancements.
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/whatsnew/index.html
Stephen Fry, super famous comedian from England (known for his work with House MD’s Hugh Laurie) selected the most beautiful tweet ever written, in a contest held earlier this month. The tweet:
I believe we can build a better world! Of course, it’ll take a whole lot of rock, water & dirt. Also, not sure where to put it.
Beautiful. And also, I suggest a putting it in the exact opposite position of Earth’s current position revolving around the sun. Then, it would never be visible to us or in radio contact and hopefully it doesn’t have any oil.
The old adage, “a picture speaks a thousand words” captures what user interface prototyping is all about: using visuals to describe thousands of words’ worth of design and development specifications that detail how a system should behave and look. In an iterative approach to user interface design, rapid prototyping is the process of quickly mocking up the future state of a system, be it a website or application, and validating it with a broader team of users, stakeholders, developers and designers. Doing this rapidly and iteratively generates feedback early and often in the process, improving the final design and reducing the need for changes during development.
Prototypes range from rough paper sketches to interactive simulations that look and function like the final product. The keys to successful rapid prototyping are revising quickly based on feedback and using the appropriate prototyping approach. Rapid prototyping helps teams experiment with multiple approaches and ideas, it facilitates discussion through visuals instead of words, it ensures that everyone shares a common understanding, and it reduces risk and avoids missed requirements, leading to a better design faster.
Continue reading over at the font of all wisdome, Smashing Magazine.
From our patrons at Smashing Magazine:
Over the last years we’ve got a pretty good understanding of what CSS does, how it works and how we can use it for our layouts, typography and visual presentation of the content. However, there are still some attributes that are not so well-known; also, CSS3 offers us new possibilities and tools that need to be understood, learned and then applied in the right context to the right effect.
In this round-up we present fresh useful articles about less-known CSS 2.1 and CSS3 properties as well as an overview of recently published CSS techniques, tools and tips for designers and web-developers. Please stay tuned: next week we will present the second part of this article, featuring fresh CSS3 techniques, tools and resources.
Read all about these EXCITING new features in CSS!!
Okay maybe not exciting, but if you ever want to know why you hire someone like me to do this, just spend 1 hour reading Smashing Magazine, and you’ll never want to hear about website development again.
