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Dec 05, 2006
Vista

Cool Vista Trick: This ain’t your daddy' Print Screen

If you’re anything like me, you probably spend a good chunk of time using Print Screen or Alt+PrtSc in conjunction with MSPaint or Photoshop. Microsoft has included a cool, little utility in Windows Vista that will make your life so much easier. ...

Dec 04, 2006
WPF

Microsoft announces Expression suite

Microsoft, today, launched Expression Studio and WPF/E, its first big foray into the designer space. What does it consist of, and what does it mean to you? Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 13 hours and 45 minutes now (it’s a jok...

Dec 03, 2006
Cocoa

The best Cocoa UI components

Update: I just launched a new website that tracks the best custom Cocoa controls for iOS and OS X. It doesn’t have a ton on it yet, but I’m stocking it up with my favorite items. Also, feel free to submit your own! As a Cocoa developer on Mac OS ...

Nov 29, 2006
UI Design

WgeTF: are Windows apps just lame?

Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror has a truly spectacular example of bad UI design up on his website today. It’s so bad, in fact, that it has been dugg 1087 times. Wow. The piece of UI in question is a VB-based wrapper around the fantastically powerful...

Nov 29, 2006

Pitchers of Liquors and Milk

I just discovered that Colin Meloy of the Decemberists is a frequent contributor to his band’s Wikipedia page (or perhaps it’s just someone claiming to be Colin…). Very funny.