Daring Fireball: Digging Deeper
And so what makes Microsoft’s new “I’m a PC” commercials so jaw-droppingly bad is that they’re not countering Apple’s message, but instead they’re reinforcing it. That the spots themselves jump between dozens of different people who “are” PCs, that the spots make a point of emphasizing that there are a billion Windows-running PCs worldwide, this only emphasizes that “PC” is not a brand name but a generic.
- John Gruber
MacRabbit’s Espresso looks like it could be a nice new web development application. The Live Preview feature that will be available in Espresso (even for dynamic web apps) is the only reason I use CSSEdit to write CSS.
Beau Smith and Bryan Tighe have ported the Sandbox WordPress theme to Movable Type with Sandbox for Movable Type. The plugin includes all of the winning themes from the Sandbox Design Competition including Moo-Point.
The porting of the Sandbox to Movable Type opens a lot of possibilities for both MT and WordPress. Both user communities will benefit from the CSS based designs can be interchangeable between the two blogging platforms.
It’s also cool to see Beau using a modified Moo-Point on his Sandbox demo site.
Hopefully there won’t be any low velocity micro black holes created in tonight’s testing of this enormous contraption.
Inspired but a piece of Jon Hicks’ impressions of Google Chrome, Shaun Inman wrote two JavaScript bookmarklets to navigate sites with “previous” and “next” buttons.
Pretty cool idea. However, I have only gotten it to work on Flickr.
A nice collection of photo gallery scripts and apps.