Over the last few years, Apple has been putting considerable effort into advancing Safari, and that’s one of the reasons for the renewed browser development landscape. Competition between Safari, Mozilla’s Firefox, Chrome & Internet Explorer has been good for Web users because it’s resulted in seriously useful innovations.
The disclosure forms for prescription drugs are typically printed using eye-aching 6-pt Helvetica Light Condensed. It would doubtless be smaller if this min. weren’t mandated by law. As a designer/typesetter, your job is to make sure the type you create isn’t just legible & readable, usually there’s no FDA around to make sure you do the right thing
You may have a personal portfolio website for a number of reasons. If you’re a freelancer, then you’d need one to showcase your work and allow people to contact you. If you’re a student (or unemployed), then you’d need one to show prospective employers how good you are and what you can do, so that they might hire you.
Gmail users can now select multiple attachments when adding them to an e-mail message. The new system simply opens your operating system’s file explorer, and supports selecting of multiple files at once.
Al writes “Microsoft demonstrated new augmented-reality software for cell-phones at the 2009 TechFest conference, which was held this week in Redmond. Instead of using GPS or WiFi triangulation, the prototype system relies entirely on scene-recognition to identify its position and add virtual objects to a video picture of the real world. TechFest is a showcase for lots of projects at Microsoft’s various research labs. Other technologies on show included Photosynth for video, an image-tracking system for handwriting, a way of refining image searches using colors, and a 3-D version of Microsoft Surface.”
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Windows Media Player adds native support for .mov files
I do use Twitter daily, just not the Twitter site. Sometimes, I use desktop-based applications (TweetDeck and Twihrl are both favorites), and I frequently use the Web to manage my Twitter account. There are a growing number of useful applications for Twittering, and all of them do the job better than the standard Twitter interface.
A super-secret Digg toolbar has been spotted in the wild. We tracked down a beta tester who gave us the skinny on its features.
In a presentation at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), GNOME Foundation executive director Stormy Peters discussed the differences between companies and communities and how to bridge the gap. This issue is becoming increasingly important for open source software projects that are trying to build close ties with corporate adopters….
Nocts writes “I’m currently working for a moderately sized company that manages a large portion of its internal help desk questions through a Jabber-based chat room. What we’re looking for instead is an open source, preferably Web-based solution that will give us the ability to have floor representatives queue questions and concerns in a similar fashion to BugTraq, directed at the help desk. Email capability would be preferred for elaboration of specific issues, but the more we can centralize everything into the queued system the better. Any recommendations and experiences? Just about any language is doable since I have the ability to configure and upgrade our servers and we’re looking at about a user base of 100 people, with around 5-10 questions a minute.”
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