I’ve been so tired of the bare-bones look of sknoblog for such a long time, so a couple of days ago, I decided to give it a facelift. I’d been putting it off in hopes of finding the time to do a comprehensive overhaul, upgrade from the old WordPress 1.5 to a 2.x version and…
Catégorie : User Interface Design
Pure Genius / Pure Joy
Apple and Orange (ex-France Telecom) finally introduced the iPhone in France last week (on the 28th or 29th of November). The prices were less unreasonable than expected (and besides, I can legitimately write it all off as a business expense) and so I spent a frantic week-end preparing for the inevitable. I had to update…
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This is my first post written on and posted from my brand new…iPhone!!! Thousands of articles have been written about it. 99% of them don’t even begin to do the iPhone justice. The attention to detail is mind blowing. It isn’t what it does (although it does a lot). It’s how it does it. That…
Francophilia dot com
Well, the cat’s out of the bag. Pamela just unveiled her latest creation. You can read all about it on her blog. Francophilia is a niche social-networking site, for francophiles, something she’s been meaning to do for years. My involvement is more recent. I spent the last couple of weeks putting a fresh coat of…
Disaster Recovery
A few months back, I told you how a misbehaved piece of shareware randomly erased a few folders on one of my external hard disks, including the source files of all my little Flash programs. I had no backup of these files, so that was that. I still had the compiled versions (here on sknoblog…
iStillWantOne
It’s now official. Apple will ship the highly anticipated iPhone (a.k.a. the Jesus Phone) on June 29th in the US. Still no word for us Europeans. As I explained before, I’m not a gadget freak, I don’t really need one, but boy do I want one. The interface is just plain brilliant. You can catch…
Translation and Politics
I’m a translator. It’s actually quite a strange thing to write for me, because this state of fact kind of crept up on me over the last few years. But professionally, that’s what I am now. Officially. It’s also presidential election time in France. 10 days to the 2nd round. Nicolas Sarkozy the conservative against…
Comment on Geeks In Love
I turned on the commenting feature on Geeks In Love. That’s all I wanted to inform you about. But…you might be wondering why the commenting feature wasn’t on to begin with. After all, isn’t commenting a basic feature of blogging packages like WordPress? If you’re that curious, and since according to some people, I’m somewhat…
Logos with a meaning | creativebits
Check out Logos with a meaning on creativebits. An interesting post on some clever logos, which holds a couple of surprises concerning two very well-known logos (the first one and the last one in the article). I don’t know about you, but these « subtleties » had totally escaped me.
The Woof Commences Now
So Microsoft is said to have a half-billion dollar budget to advertise its new Windows Vista operating system. And they came up with the following, inspiring slogan: « The Wow Starts Now », next to the new, rounded Windows « Start » button. Umm, OK. I couldn’t help remembering that when the first iMac came out, you know, the…