The adventures of Paul Robinson

Daring Fireball’s first iPhone impressions:

The auto-suggest correction system works pretty damn well, considering it hasn’t yet had a chance to learn much about what and how I type. Most impressive touch: it knows the word “fucking”.

I replaced my Preview Icon with the one from IconDesigner long ago.

Rands book is out!


The new Webkit Inspector is super-duper awesome!

I love this term, “Digital Immigrants”
Kirah defines ‘digital immigrants’ as people who were not born into the digital lifestyle and view it as a distraction rather than an integral part of life. The younger generation of workers have been using computers and mobile phones since birth and she calls them ‘digital natives’.
I would have to […]

Cocoia on the KDE Plasma icon rollovers: When everyone designs user interfaces…
Check out the invective from the KDE fan bois in the comments.

Waffle: Has Safari 3 finally added scriptable tab support?
The hooks are there, but so far it doesn’t seem to work….

If I have to sit through another god awful Powerpoint presentation I think I will have to kill myself.
Please, people, take a look at this - presentations done right (it doesn’t hurt that Henry is good looking of course):

I Will Survive

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The original is still the best!

But this is fun too…

The Economist: Lessons From Apple
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The Apple Design Awards are out!

Don’t be too hard on Mary Joe Foley who writes for ZDNet that Leopard looks a lot like Vista:
Granted, I am not an Apple user. So I’m sure I’m glossing over some subtleties regarding what’s new and cool in Leopard. But given how often I hear the “Redmond, Start Your Photocopiers” message, I was thinking […]

3D Mailbox

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This has to be the wackiest email client ever!

More on the Gay Bomb:
A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.
Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and […]

Looks like this was a lot of fun to make. Don’t you wanna work there?

Where is it? When Apple made the switch to Intel for OS X everyone was predicting wide-spread piracy of OS X onto generic Dell boxes.
It’s not that no one tried - they tried! And there were sporadic reports of success. But for the most part it just didn’t happen. Kudos […]

Is it only me, or does this seem weird:
“In an effort to spur adoption of Solaris, Sun Microsystems has begun a project code-named Indiana to try to give its operating system some of the trappings of Linux.
The project is one of the items on the to-do list of Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian version […]

CSI Munich! The guys at Sun have outdone themselves with this cheeky, fun and nerdy video.

The MacTech 25

Very very cool if ZFS is the new Mac default. Why ZFS is good.

New releases today of both NetNewsWire and MarsEdit.
Go get em!

Keynote Tips

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Rands with a bunch of great power Keynote tips. I refuse to use Powerpoint or, God forbid, OpenOffice ever again.

As if I could dance to impress!

The controversial ROM Crystal was open all night to allow the public a chance to finally see the architectural opening from the inside. Although early visitors had to wait hours for tickets, we went to see it after the clubs had closed (about 3 in the morning) and sailed right in with no line […]

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