Daring Fireball: The New Twitter (R.I.P. Tweetie)

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 09 dec 11 and tagged it with Links Twitter

John Gruber comments on the new Twitter app, for iPhone, Android and the web. I’ve never been a user of the official twitter app (or Tweetie) but I think this quote sums up the transition that twitter is going through. It’s very possible that those of us who has loved twitter for a long time will likely love it less and less as time goes by.

The Twitter service I signed up for is one where people tweet 140-character posts, you follow those people whose tweets you tend to enjoy, and that’s it. The Twitter service this new UI presents is about a whole lot more — mass-market spoonfed “trending topics” and sponsored content. It’s trying to make Twitter work for people who don’t see the appeal of what Twitter was supposed to be. It all makes sense if you think of the label under the “#” tab as reading “Dickbar” instead of “Discover”.

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Make keyboard shortcuts in Coda work with swedish Apple Keyboard

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 08 dec 11 and tagged it with Apple Coda Links

I’ve been using Coda as my primary editor for coding for over a year and liked it very much. However a few of the keyboard shortcuts has not worked for me. I’ve suspected that it is since I’m using a swedish Apple keyboard an a lot of the shortcuts uses keys that have a totally different position on it compared to an american keyboard. It seems this can be fixed easily by changing some OS X-wide shortcuts.

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Map of Moscow’s debut album is released today

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 07 dec 11 and tagged it with Links Map of Moscow Music

Map of Moscow’s self-titled debut album is out. For that, we toast!

Great swedish pop-music (with english lyrics) that makes you wanna dance and cry simultaneously. Check it out!

Also, feel free to check out my pictures of the band from their gig in Falun in the early fall.

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Fantastic art: What children’s drawings would look like if it were painted realistically

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 07 dec 11 and tagged it with Awesomeness Links

Illustrator Dave DeVries has explored the idea of what the result would be if he used children’s paintings as base for paintings. The result is pure awesomeness.

It began at the Jersey Shore in 1998, where my niece Jessica often filled my sketchbook with doodles. While I stared at them, I wondered if color, texture and shading could be applied for a 3D effect. As a painter, I made cartoons look three dimensional every day for the likes of Marvel and DC comics, so why couldn’t I apply those same techniques to a kid’s drawing? That was it… no research, no years of toil, just the curiosity of seeing Jessica’s drawings come to life.

The projects site seems to be down at the moment, so this link post links to Elezea.com, the blog where I found out about this.

Via David Paulsson and Björn Persson on twitter.

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LG rips off the MacBook Air

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 07 dec 11 and tagged it with Links

LG completely rips off the MacBook Air with this ”Ultrabook”. A product designer who does this can’t have any pride in his/her work.

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Keep tweaking, keep iterating

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 02 dec 11 and tagged it with About the blog Status

Once again I made some incremental changes to the look of this blog. I’m really not a designer but I will keep pushing those pixels and tweaking the colors, probably for as long as the blog will live. This time I’ve changed the background color slightly, switched the default font and changed the basic font size. Hopefully this will increase the readability on Windows (that totally butched my old font).

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The best thing about the month of X-mas

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 01 dec 11 and tagged it with HTML5/CSS3 Links

Christmas is just a few weeks away. This means all kinds of advent calendars one of which is one of the best things about december; 24 Ways. It is, in their own words

the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer.

(My emphasize.)

So what are you waiting for? Visit 24ways.org or add http://feeds.feedburner.com/24ways to you RSS reader right now.

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Animation with CSS Transitions Made Easy « Aza on Design

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 01 dec 11 and tagged it with Code HTML5/CSS3 Links Web Design and Development

This is a good (although old) article on CSS Transitions. Especially the following caught my attention:

You can even add an event listener to detect when the transition has finished:

aLink.addEventListener("transitionend", function(){<br /> console.log("Transition Done!");<br /> }, true);

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aLink.addEventListener("transitionend", function(){<br />
console.log("Transition Done!");<br />
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I haven’t read anything about this in any of the other bazillion articles about CSS transitions that is out on the web. Sound interesting to me.

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Windows 8 Metro really impresses me

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 16 nov 11 and tagged it with Microsoft Video Windows

Back in September Microsoft revealed a lot of what Windows 8 will be about. The thing that caught my eye was the new ”Metro UI”. The other day, while on a train from Malmö to Falun, I finally had the time to watch the ”8 Traits of Great Metro Style Apps” video. If you are interested in computers, development etc you should really watch this.

Microsoft has made some great decisions about Metro. The fact that they again and again in the presentation encourages the developers to use standard UI and controls instead of rolling there own is great. Finally Windows might be a platform in the same sense that OS X is, i.e. programs will feel like a natural extension of the system instead of something completely alien.

One thing that I really liked when I first heard of it was the idea of contracts. After seeing the video I like it even more. This seems like the perfect way to get apps to co-operate in the next generation of operating systems. Let’s hope and pray that Apple finds it equally great and steels it for iOS.

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Do we need to worry about semantic markup?

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 12 nov 11 and tagged it with HTML5/CSS3 Semantics

Yesterday Divya Manian wrote a post on Smashing Magazine called ”Our Pointless Pursuit Of Semantic Value”. It made some hyperbolic statements about semantic markup. However it, and its comments, are well worth a read. The best reply I’ve seen so far comes from Jeremy Keith.

And that’s the reason why right now is exactly the time for web developers to be thinking about semantics. The specification is still being put together and our collective voice matters. If we want to have well-considered semantic elements in the language, we need to take the time to consider the effects of every new element that could potentially be used to structure our content.

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