« August 2008 | Main | October 2008 »
The impossibility to disable iPhone auto-correction for text input in unsupported languages is a royal, royal pain. It's like trying to swear every other word while the Predictive Text Swearing team is hard at work.
Via DF.
"For the next version, please could you stop adding features." "Why does Photoshop cost as much as a pre-owned small car?" Exactly! Join the whiners.
Via Photoshelter.
In about an hour at:
Let it rock then.
"Talking about God makes people seem idiotic the same way ketchup makes the finest cuisine taste like fast food." Fuck Freud.
Bill Gardner announced that the judging of the 33,000 logos submitted for LogoLounge 5 has been completed. The book will be released by Rockport Publishers in early Summer 2009.
The newly redesigned Sitemeter is up and running. Yay! The legendary efficient simplicity (and parser friendliness) was murdered and replaced with a suffocating, inscrutable "polished" look. Truly unusable.
Chapter closed. Pity.
LATER EDIT Well, maybe the chapter is not over just yet. Interesting.
Leica's offical Photokina 2008 product announcements on the pro side:
Oh God, this hurts.
As all hell broke loose after launch, and Sitemeter immediately rolled back to their old design. Good!
But from their apology though — "we have pushed our new site live prematurely" and "we apologize for the botched rollout" — it's easy to tell: they still don't get it.
It's not the rollout (it was painless) or performance (come on!). It's about the fact that the new site is terribly, terribly designed.
"The company was once based on the leisurely Italian coffee house model of a quiet place away from house and office, with personal relationships between customers and baristas, and a nice wait for hand-brewed coffee. Those days are over." James Biber Remakes Starbucks.
The new Leica Noctilux-M 50 mm f/0.95 ASPH (surpassing the speed of the human eye) will be available from February 2009 for €8000.
Smile!
“Hi Steve Jobs. We now updated to the new iPhone Firmware 2.1 and it definitely made things go much smoother! But we all still miss one feature: we’d like to be able to disable the annoying autocorrection! At the time it is really not Apple-like. Please let your developers make a simple switch button to turn autocorrection off (they propably will do that in 20 seconds, right?). Thank you very much!”
Sign the iPhone autocorrection petition. 9,370 signatures and counting.
"Microsoft's version of the story: Redmond had always planned to drop Seinfeld. The awkward reality: The ads only reminded us how out of touch with consumers Microsoft is." Microsoft announcement tomorrow: No more Seinfeld ads!.
"The spots were undeniably successful in one important regard: they were noticed and discussed. I suspect what sparked the panic is that the Seinfeld ads were too good, too accurate at capturing just what it is that Microsoft, as a company and brand, stands for: nothing." John Gruber in his There’s Nothing There. Brilliant.
"Several digital images that Microsoft Corp. has posted on its Web site to trumpet its new "I'm a PC" advertising campaign were actually created on Macs, according to the files' originating-software stamp." Obviously.
"One of the most insightful minds on design thinking and innovation is now blogging — IDEO's Tim Brown." Bookmarked.
Via Nussbaum.
The expression "maybe days away from a complete [financial] meltdown" scares me shitless.
Talking about MS ads:
Coffee readings.
Google founder Sergey Brin has started his blog, Too.
"Leica has launched an entirely new digital camera system destined to bridge the gap between more versatile professional digital SLRs and medium-format high resolution models." Read about the new S2 Leica SLR — and admire its spartan looks — in The British Journal of Photography.
In an unexpected yet truly visionary move, Adobe ads to Illustrator not one but two breakthrough features present in that competing product since last century: 'multiple artboards' and 'bleed'. I feel so young.
And if we are really, really lucky, we might even live to see the day when a 'clipping mask' will really clip and mask in outline view — just like in that competing product from last century.
... knows.
Yer doin it rong.
"In the last six months alone, 31,544 mobile phones in New York and 55,843 in London were left behind in taxi cabs" survey says.
At 80 grams (is that fair?) per piece that's around 7 tons. Holy shit, that's a boatload of them[!
Yeah, interrobang — clueless, ha? Well, this platypus of a punctuation mark was redesigned.
"Yo momma’s so ugly she was born with ink traps on her face" and other typographic jokes (avoid if not a graphic designer).
Yeah, a Leica camera can do that to you. Trust me, I know — Leica corrupted me, too.
Via DF.
This page contains all entries posted to Kit·Blog Notes in September 2008. They are listed from oldest to newest.
August 2008 is the previous archive.
October 2008 is the next archive.
Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.