Category: Quick Posts

Electronic Frontier Foundation – Sony v. Hotz: Sony Sends A Dangerous Message to Researchers — and Its Customers
Oh silly companies, let’s attack security researchers for finding exploitable holes in our software/hardware.
January 19, 2011
Smashing Magazine – Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It
Nice little roundup on building designs that respond on the basis of the device and screen size to present the best look to everyone.
January 19, 2011
Ars Technica – Why you should always encrypt your smartphone
Important read for anyone who has a smartphone.
January 19, 2011
Joseph Perla – Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme
Never thought of Facebook that way but it makes a fair amount of sense.
January 18, 2011
CSS-Tricks – Rotating Feature Boxes
Pretty neat trick, rotate through boxes of html content and display subtitles when the boxes is on the side.
January 17, 2011
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox – 10 Best Intranets of 2011
Interestingly enough social networking features work really well for intranets, not so surprisingly what makes an effective website is slightly different from what makes a good intranet.
January 16, 2011
Campaign Monitor – When it comes to opting-in for email, un-checked is best
Pretty simple don’t force people to uncheck a box to sign up for your cruddy newsletter, opt-in is a better design and better user experience.
January 16, 2011
Alex Payne – Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms
Cross platform means it does nothing great and everything sub-par at best.
January 16, 2011
Manton Reece – App Store 30% cut
That’s a ginormous difference in fees, especially for the complaint of not knowing anything about anything.
January 14, 2011
Official Google Blog – World IPv6 Day: firing up the engines on the new Internet protocol
I’m not sure this will do much but it sure would be nice for ISP’s to start supporting IPv6.
January 13, 2011