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  • Apple’s Design Guide

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    Happened across this – Apple Human Interface Guidelines, along with having the standard instructions for developing a product that looks, well… Apple-y, has some great content in their Characteristics of Great Software section. When making design decisions regarding features in your application, it’s important to weigh the costs, not all of which are financial, against…

  • Days Go By

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    This still remains my favorite music video of all time – nowadays they are all junk.

  • The Facebook Flea Market, or Why Diversification is the Only Free Lunch

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    Facebook applications are awesome – and a good number of developers and agencies have committed to themselves full time to developing applications for themselves and for clients. We all see huge potential for being able to interact with users on such a personal level, so easily. Relying on other services is a big component of…

  • The Last Mile

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    This is a bit of a stream of thought, so bear with me. One of the topics that really interests me is the last mile. We have electronic devices that store and deal with pretty much any type of information. Phone numbers, addresses, messages, people, etc. Fridges that keep track of our food, even. But…

  • 2008 DC Idiotarod

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    I can’t believe I missed it!

  • I Made a Fire Eagle Application

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    Late last year I mentioned that Yahoo was coming out with it’s own location management platform. They launched it last week in private beta. At this point – it really is just that, a platform. Very few applications exist. Seth Levine was kind enough to send me an invite. I wrote a quick application using…

  • Craigslist Fun

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    I love Craigslist. You see a lot of decent gigs, but there’s also a ton of crap. And every once in a while, someone lashes out. Reply to: gigs-585642542@craigslist.org Date: 2008-02-24, 9:19PM EST Looking for someone to design a new company logo – the logo will be light-infused, modern, edgy, clean, and professional. Please link…

  • Two Great Days

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    There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why. William Barclay [via Guru Gilbert] Powered by ScribeFire.

  • Fight the Maryland Tech Tax

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    Thanks to Jimmy for pointing this out. Effective July 1, 2008, Maryland’s 6 percent sales tax will apply to computer services, including: Computer facilities management and operation. Custom programming. Computer system planning and design that integrate computer hardware, software, and communication technologies. Computer disaster recovery. Data processing, storage and recovery. Hardware or software installation, maintenance,…

  • 730 Days

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    Alex and I have been dating two years today. 🙂