A few days ago, a friend of mine posted a video ad for an email program that can be run on an iPhone. I Googled this Mailbox “app” to find out more about it. The press seems to be extremely excited for this thing, but I honestly don’t see why.
Their home page is filled with modern web clichés: lots of white space, a huge 1,000-pixel vertical length video, and short paragraphs describing their product.
Today Steam added a new feature to their Windows client called Big Picture. This is a new interface designed with game pads and a TV in mind. The first thing I noticed was that it resembles the Xbox 360 dashboard. You even access it by pressing the guide button on an Xbox 360 controller while playing a game.
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Everybody knows that tiling window managers are the cure to all the world’s problems.
Me too. I love downloading and uploading and updating and transferring and virus scanning and defragging and registry cleaning and installing and encoding and rendering and unzipping and compiling, as much as possible at the same time. I imagine all these massive bit streams flowing in and out, the heart rate of the computer going up, my quad core maximizing its potential and hacking through millions of operations in a harmonic way of perfection, leaving a trail structure and cleanliness behind. It’s so refreshing.
Chrome has now “sold out”, and may only be used “ironically”. The current “hip” browser is now Lynx in an xterm window set to use Helvetica (it’s “vintage”). Please adjust your usage accordingly.
— gman003
