Category: apps

  • Episode 38: Macworld’s Jason Snell live on The Big Web Show

    Episode 38: Macworld’s Jason Snell live on The Big Web Show

    Macworld editorial director Jason Snell is our guest on The Big Web Show (“Everything Web That Matters”) Episode #38, recording live Thursday, February 10, at 12:00 PM Eastern. Jason, co-host Dan Benjamin and I will…

  • Own Your Data

    Own Your Data

    Captured from Twitter, here is Tom Henrich’s partial reconstruction of my conversation with Tantek Çelik, Glenda Bautista, Andy Rutledge and others on the merits of self-hosting social content and publishing to various sites rather than…

  • Flipboard Update Preview

    Flipboard Update Preview

    FLIPBOARD, AS YOU DOUBTLESS know, is a social media magazine for iPad. Part RSS reader, part iPad publication uniquely curated by each reader, the app brings serendipity, discovery, and typographic excellence to the experience of…

  • Et tu, Jon Stewart?

    Et tu, Jon Stewart?

    The iTunes Store now features a Daily Show app. When you click to purchase it, the store tells you it doesn’t exist/isn’t available under this name. Apparently, Apple or MTV Networks has withdrawn the app—and…

  • ARIA-WAI cool

    ARIA-WAI cool

    Issue No. 319 of A List Apart for people who make websites tackles the intersection between web apps, WAI-ARIA, JavaScript, and accessibility. ARIA and Progressive Enhancement by DEREK FEATHERSTONE For seven years, progressive enhancement has…

  • Awesome web apps in 10k or less

    Awesome web apps in 10k or less

    The 10K Apart Challenge had a simple premise: Could you build a complete web application using less than 10 kilobytes? … A joint effort between An Event Apart and MIX Online, the 10K Apart reaped…

  • iPad as the new Flash

    iPad as the new Flash

    iPad. Never have so many embraced a great product for exactly the wrong reasons. Too many designers and publishers see the iPad as an opportunity to do all the wrong things—things they once did in…

  • Paul Ford on The Big Web Show

    Paul Ford on The Big Web Show

    Paul Ford is our guest on The Big Web Show, taped live before an internet audience at 1:00 PM ET tomorrow, 14 October 2010, on the 5by5 network at live.5by5.tv. Paul is a freelance writer…

  • The future of web standards

    The future of web standards

    “Cheap, complex devices such as the iPhone and the Droid have come along at precisely the moment when HTML5, CSS3 and web fonts are ready for action; when standards-based web development is no longer relegated…

  • 960 Pixel Grids Made Easy

    960 Pixel Grids Made Easy

    Listen up, web designers. From Stuntbox with love comes Gridulator, a dandy free web application that calculates multi-column grids for all your pixel-based web layout needs. Creator David Sleight explains how it works: Tell Gridulator…

  • Episode 20: Designing Web Applications, Managing Teams, and Creating Readability

    Episode 20: Designing Web Applications, Managing Teams, and Creating Readability

    Rich Ziade, creator of the popular reading tool Readability, guests on Thursday’s today’s episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped before a live internet audience. Richard Ziade is the founding…

  • Announcing Lanyrd

    Announcing Lanyrd

    No, it isn’t a Happy Cog project (it’s by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe) but we couldn’t love Lanyrd, the social conference directory any more if we’d created it ourselves. Lanyrd uses Twitter to tell…

  • iPad Fonts Petition

    iPad Fonts Petition

    Dear Apple: It is a triumph of engineering and marketing and general cause for joy that Apple provides highly functional iPad versions of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers for a mere $9.99 apiece. Alas, the iPad…

  • Design Apps for Fun and Profit

    Design Apps for Fun and Profit

    Update! Episode 14 is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. Josh Williams, founder of Gowalla, is our guest at 1:00 PM ET today, July 29, in Episode 14 of The Big…

  • iPad Mellotron

    iPad Mellotron

    In Heaven, if I should get there, I will play the Mellotron. Meanwhile, I play the Mellotronics M3000 HD, a $12 Mellotron for iPad (and soon for iPhone and iPod touch as well) by Synthtopia.…