I work on several web projects and Mac software, enjoy good design, love to make music or take pictures, try to blog or microblog in my spare time and am an avid user of Social Networks. Apart from that I study Communication Science and am mostly interested in the relationships between the influence of the Social Web on Advertisement and Public Relations seen from a entertainment-oriented and cultural perspective.
Most should already have figured this out by now, but John Gruber finds a entry in the Chromium Developer Documentation that is Spot on:
In the long term, we think of Chromium as a tabbed window manager or shell for the web rather than a browser application. We avoid putting things into our UI in the same way you would hope that Apple and Microsoft would avoid putting things into the standard window frames of applications on their operating systems.
Found via retro-coding.
Yearbook Yourself is an interesting idea. It allows you to upload a picture and builds a yearbook which displays your picture using the iconic “looks” of every class since 1950. You can see my results below, click for a larger version. It’s interesting to note that the 1956 looks so much like my father that I almost got goosebumps upon first sight.
As you can see, I just got my iPhone today. Software version is, due to Carrier-Reasons still at 1.0.2, and I plan to keep it that way for some time.
First impression is: Awesome. Absolutely awesome and amazing.
Although it lacks some of the features which I would take for granted in modern Mobile Phones, it shines on many other feature-comparisons.
I’ll write more soon.
