The ship date is old news for DF readers, but it’s worth the excitement. I’ve been running the betas full-time since WWDC and it’s really nice. I can’t think of a single change that isn’t an improvement over 10.5. ★ […]
The simple DVD ripper for Macs is here! Finally, getting your movies onto your computer is easy with one-click ripping. As a special offer to our fellow DF readers, please accept this 25% discount valid until Monday the 31st of August: DARINGFIRE2009 […]
Since the launch of the site we’ve be welcoming questions regarding the HTML 5 spec through the contact form. It doesn’t matter if you think your question is too big or small we’re here to help. Last month we decided to pull together a post that covered some of the emails that were sent in through the contact page. Since the publication of the last post we […]
The inventor of the beautiful Chemex brewer, Peter Schlumbohm, once said, "With the Chemex, even a moron can make good coffee.” Now, Intelligentsia Coffee has produced a terrific video that will show morons how to make terrific coffee. Previously:BBtv: A Morning at Intelligentsia - Boing Boing BBtv: A Morning at Intelligentsia Coffee Part 2 - Boing […]
Bowloftoast sez, "This is a short animation that takes the viewer through a progressive description of all (and all possible) dimensions, up to and including the 10th. It is an elegant introduction to the fundamentals of string theory and a mind-blowing toe-dip into the pool of the metaphysical." Imagining the Tenth Dimension (Thanks, Bowlofto […]
Buzz Andersen: Franklin’s plan is an inspiration to me because it reminds me why I went down the tough road of being an indie developer in the first place: to live a more balanced, reflective life. A nice page design, too. ★ […]
Lovely piece by Maira Kalman on Ben Franklin: Don’t mope in your room. Go invent something. That is the American message. Electricity. Flight. The telephone. Television. Computers. Walking on the moon. It never stops. ★ […]
I first started making kombucha in 1995, but when we had our first child in 1997, I was knocked out of many patterns, including making this tasty fermented beverage. About a month ago I started making it again. It's really easy. Before you make your own kombucha, here are a few reasons why you might not want to: Paul Stamets: "The danger of misu […]
We’ve had a number of people asking about templates, boilerplates and styling for HTML 5 so to give you all a helping hand and continue on from those basic building blocks that Remy talked about last week I’ve created a HTML 5 reset stylesheet for you to take away and use, edit, amend and update in your projects. Based on Eric Meyers CSS reset, I’ve made a f […]
Great free utility by Panic’s Wade Cosgrove: a Mac OS X system-wide color picker panel that lets you copy color values in NSColor, UIColor, CGColorRef, CSS, and HTML styles. ★ […]
This video is a couple of years old, but I just read about it on Forgetomori last night. It shows a folded piece of paper, balanced on an upright toothpick, under a glass bowl. The guy in the video shows how he can make the paper spin with his "psychic powers." Before he starts making it spin though, he first blows a hair dryer around the bowl to […]
Hugh from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, As Google expands its Google Book Search service, adding millions of titles, it will dramatically increase the public's access to books. More and more people will soon be browsing, reading and purchasing books online. But Google may be leaving out the privacy we have come to expect, with systems that […]
For years, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) has been the bane of existence for web designers around the world. Designers and users alike have come to enjoy the increasingly predictable, standards-compliant behavior of great modern browsers like Firefox, Opera, and Safari. Meanwhile, IE6 continues to haunt our designs, lurking in dark places while dying a painfully […]
Overflow does some cool things you should know about. Creates Block Formatting Context Clears Floats Generating block formatting context Arnaud Gueras called this “contexte de formattage” years ago, and I was kind of surprised when I moved back to the US how few developers here had heard of this “secret weapon”. When the overflow property is set, a new blo […]
Fake Steve: We all know that there’s no fucking way in the world we should have microwave ovens and refrigerators and TV sets and everything else at the prices we’re paying for them. There’s no way we get all this stuff and everything is done fair and square and everyone gets treated right. No way. And don’t be confused — what we’re talking about here is […]
When describing Typekit to both web and type designers, we often say that we’re “offering a level of protection that the type industry needs.” Considering all the discussion there has been recently about differing formats and safeguarding fonts, we thought we’d explain our approach in detail. The fact is, for something to appear in a browser, it has to be on […]
Web Workers are, undoubtedly, the coolest new feature to arrive in the latest version of web browsers. Web Workers allow you to run JavaScript in parallel on a web page, without blocking the user interface. Normally in order to achieve any sort of computation using JavaScript you would need to break your jobs up into tiny chunks and split their execution ap […]
WebKit on Mac OS X now has support for CSS 3D transforms, which allow you to position elements on the page in three-dimensional space using CSS. This is a natural extension of 2D transforms, which we described in an earlier blog post. 3D transforms have been supported on iPhone since 2.0, and now we’re please to announce that we have currently added support […]
This is one of the most impressive software demo videos I’ve ever seen. It’s like something from Minority Report. This is holy shit! stuff. The developers, Acrossair, also have a similar app for London; both apps are awaiting approval from Apple. (Update: I originally stated that the London app was already available; it is not.) ★ […]
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