November 2009
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Calibri
Calibri is a humanist sans-serif typeface family under the Microsoft ClearType Font Collection.
In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word and replaced Arial as the default in PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.
Calibri was designed by Lucas de Groot for Microsoft to take advantage of Microsoft’s ClearType rendering technology.
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Temperature Affects on the Transmission of the...
Hearing someone say they don’t want to catch cold as they bundle up to go outdoors bothers me all the time. It’s like saying, “Hey I am going outside, better wear a hat to avoid illiteracy.” It makes no sense!
Molecular surface of one variant of human rhinovirus.
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From the FBHC
“Does cold weather cause a cold?
Although many people are convinced that...
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Rethinking My Desktop and Syncing My Online...
I am playing around with my desktop to make it more sleek, less cluttered, and more usable.
The first thing I did was install fences to group my desktop icons together. I placed the four most important things together at the bottom of my desktop and everything else will be dumped into the thin column on the left hand side of my desktop. Fences is nice in that when I mouse over to the think...
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I want it! Wi-Fi Scale
This looks so cool. It would make tracking weight so easy. I think I would use it all the time if I had it.
Video of the Web Interface:
Video of the free Iphone App
and last but not least …
…. it posts to twitter.
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Price is $160. Thoughts?
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New bottom bar on TwitCritics
From the TwitCritics Blog:
Slight tweak to our bottom bar. We are in the process of working on a lot of exciting big things but we are still paying attention to the little details that make your experiences on twitcritics as easy and understandable as possible.
Our careful and considered solution to the bottom bar design was to group items according to who we think will be using them.
General...
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What's in a name? The usability of web names
I learned today that on the web a name is not just a name.
Example 1: http://pixelposition.com/hyphens-underscores/
On twitcritics we were using underscores on our links to movies ie: http://twitcritics.com/movies/men_who_stare_at_goats
This is not the best practice. FTA:
Concensus of “repeat opinion” is that hyphens have an SEO value. Why? We know hyphens are seen as word separators. We don’t...
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Objectified
I just watched the documentary “Objectified”. My brain is buzzing with hundreds of thoughts and comments. I want to get them all out but first I am going to re-watch this movie and write down my thoughts as I go. Expect to read a number of blog posts in the near future centered around design and interaction design. I highly recommend you watch (*download) this film. (btw the above...