Sharon Chan of the Seattle Times:
Paul Rey, user experience manager for Bing, said his team intensively researched what kind of blue to use for search results. They sent various users flights of blue shades, including different hues and different saturations.
The blue color used for links in Bing’s predecessor, Live Search, was more pale. “Live Search [...]
While they still have a long way to go, it’s nice to see Microsoft start to move in the right direction with their browser.
Sweet Moses, I’ve been waiting for this:
Kick it old school with games for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Nescaline allows you to play a wide range of NES games on your iPhone and includes five public domain games developed as freeware. You may also use the download feature to add games to your library from [...]
John Welch on Adobe Reader and Apple’s Preview:
I don’t think that Adobe understands that there is a market for a lightweight application that does a minimum beyond viewing, and does so with a clean UI.
It’s not like all Preview does is let you view. You can do annotations, notes, add links, simple shapes, bookmarks, etc. You [...]
Gruber:
When your defense of your Mac UI design is that Adobe and/or Firefox do it in their Mac apps too, you’ve got a problem.
Lots of fixes, though:
• Auto-complete email addresses when choosing recipients for a shared file
• File sharing emails are automatically saved to your Mail account’s Sent folder
• When viewing an image, tap and hold to save it to your photo roll or copy it to another app
• Maximum setting for cache size is now 500MB (up from 200MB)
• Faster downloads
• Various [...]
Mike Elgan:
Netbooks suck for typing. Believe me. I’m a professional. One problem is that the keyboards are too cramped. But the other is that tiny netbooks force you to have the screen too close for comfortable reading.
A touch tablet is also a netbook. Just add a kickstand to prop up the screen and add a [...]
This is a very cool PDF.
Batman is the best superhero ever. Don’t write me and try to argue this one.
