26 Oct
   Filed Under: Announcement   

I solved problems with uploaded images in my previous posts today with a huge hand from Brian, who solved this rather peculiar problem very elegantly.

The issues were centered on the tendency of my old WordPress install putting files in a path like this;

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Read on for the solution.

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25 Oct
   Filed Under: News   

Excellent article by Adrian Shaughnessy about designers; empathizers and egotists.

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25 Oct
   Filed Under: Apple, iPhone   

It’s been an exciting day for me; apart from rounding up some client work, I went out and bought an Airport Extreme router and upgraded my hacked iPhone to the latest firmware (1.1.1), which is notorious in ‘bricking’ iPhones. 
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25 Oct
   Filed Under: News   

Mike Lee has posted a very insightful blog post at motherfucker (that’s the name of his blog), called The Power of Charity. It’s about, well, charity, and presents some very cool ways that Delicious Monster uses charity to ‘teach’ users to give. It also shows some alternative ideas to make charity more accessible. Very worthwhile read.

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24 Oct
   Filed Under: Commercial Work, Design, News   

As a tangy addition to my services in the time Leopard is being released, I am offering all my current clients and clients, who book(ed) a case with me for OS X icons, between now and November 9th a complimentary HTML stationery template design for the new Mail.app. Some eye-candy (of course I’m an early adopter ;));

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One of my favorite Leopard features by far; the new Mail.app.

24 Oct
   Filed Under: Interface Design, iPhone   

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Apple opened the doors of its new ‘iPhone Dev Center‘ website, mainly an ADC on iTunes page where you can download several high-quality video sessions for developing rich web applications tailored to the iPhone.

You can whine about native applications all you want, but this is very interesting to people even looking to just make a second stylesheet for MobileSafari viewing (like me) and get some good pointers on the difference of desktop and iPhone / iPod interaction.

Edit; Jimmy from Gosquared has now registered the (iphonedevcenter.com) domain name.