Designified

A serious project looking at using optical tracking (digital cameras) and lasers to zap disease-bearing mosquitos out of the air in mid-flight.

A collection of a few of the widely perceived negative aspects of announcements about the new Windows mobile OS. Personally I don’t see a most of these as being bad things, but I do find it funny that all the points below are (or have been) criticisms of the iPhone.

Re-visiting culturally ingrained movies and creating posters for them.

Jeremy Keith’s thesession.org has fallen foul of a possibly dastardly use of the DMCA – either a huge and unwarranted over-reaction by the owner of perfectpitch.com or a very sneaky way of getting a page with a better search engine ranking for his ‘key phrase’ removed from the Google listing…

UPDATES 6th & 8th November ’09

An Applescript to Validate the HTML / XHTML of the current document in Panic’s Coda using the standalone Validator S.A.C. application’s web service feature.

On OS X 10.5 (and maybe later, not tested), there’s a slightly annoying Time Machine dialog box that pops up each time a different external drive is plugged in – this is how to stop it.

A plugin for Internet Explorer which replaces the IE rendering engine with Google’s Chrome rendering engine.

Some notes on running concurrent versions of browsers under Windows & OS X for testing purposes.

A couple more enhancements, utilities and applications I’ve been using.

The default output from Xdebug is a bit gaudy and not very nice from a design point of view… so I whipped up a quick bit of Jquery+CSS to restyle it on a per-page basis.