or, design gestalt.. I started making a new design for webanorak a while back. Â It had some fun transparent overlay tricks for making javascripty bobbling clouds of content look lovely. It had png24 pattern overlays for that not so THIS IS THE FUTURE, MAN! WEB 2.0 sameness all over the everywhere. I then left it in it’s little box for a while after the initial enthusiasm was side-tracked by puppies or kittens or head trauma or something. Looking at it again, and comparing it to all the lovely I AM THE FUTURE bleeding edge of cool sites out there now my design blends in to the crowd. Feck it. CSS sprite menus are retro cool.
Month: April 2011
Adobe ebook DRM crazymadness solution
I have to install a special program to view it? It is not compatible with Stanza* (see comments from Neelan Choksi), the best ebook reader ever – although less happy for their prospects since they sold out to Amazon.. Oh Kindle for iPhone. How sad you make me. Not quite as sad as iBooks. But pretty sad. It takes THREE BILLION YEARS to download a POCKET edition of a book? I have to install some random extra product to my iphone (after a non trivial search to find the goddamned thing in the first place) to view it? What. The. Shit. *Note the dearth of development since the buyout. And it is still better than the Kindle app by…