Pre-Thought Listen

Silverchair Covers Yellow Submarine

Ryan McCue — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:40:13 +0000

One of the best renditions I’ve heard of Yellow Submarine.

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Typography Is Important

Ryan McCue — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:22:25 +0000

A crash course to using typography. This is going in my folder with Five Simple Steps.

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Campus Notes Version Two

Ryan McCue — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:25:45 +0000

Jim Whimpey has just announced Campus Notes has gone completely free for all users. I’ve been using it for a while in the free mode, and now that the number of notes is no longer limited, it’ll definitely be replacing Google Docs for the majority of my documents.

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iLounge’s iPhone OS 4 Breakdown

Ryan McCue — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:08:42 +0000

Safari. “Google” has been replaced next to the keyboard’s space bar with the word “Search.” Ouch.

This makes a lot of sense, as to my knowledge, this is the only time the submit button on the keyboard is something other than “return”, “search” or “go” in Apple’s apps. It also appears to be allowing for the user to change search providers, though I’m not sure that this would be a good move UX-wise.

Edit: Forgot to mention “go” the first time.

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WordPress 3.0 and Custom Post Types

Ryan McCue — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:36:34 +0000

This morning, I switched the theme on here, Beached, over from using meta fields to WordPress 3.0′s new custom post types. Aside from having to do a manual SQL query to covert the posts, it has worked wonderfully. This also enables me to have different permalinks for links (for example, this post is /92/wp3-custom-post-types/, while a link with the same title would be /link/wp3-custom-post-types/), and in the future, other fun stuff like separate feeds for links and posts, with one combined one. It’s definitely a very powerful feature.

Poisonous People

Ryan McCue — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:13:04 +0000

One of my favourite talks I’ve seen is this one by Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman, and I’ve found it increasingly applicable to the WordPress hackers mailing list, as I’ve made clear.

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Holidays

Ryan McCue — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:25:21 +0000

Apologies for the lack of posts for the last couple of days. I’ve just started school holidays, so I’ve been asleep for the majority of them. Have these two links to make up for it.

ExtraLives’ 64 Hours of Nintendo 64

Ryan McCue — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:25:01 +0000

ExtraLives is raising money for Save the Children with their 64 hour marathon of N64 games. They’re currently down to the final hours of it, so only Tim (the organiser) is left playing, but you can still donate, and watch him suffer from the lack of sleep.

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Aristo, for jQuery UI

Ryan McCue — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:19:11 +0000

Someone has ported Cappucino’s theme, Aristo, to jQuery UI. I will definitely be using this at some point.

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Indistinguishable From Magic

Ryan McCue — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:23:00 +0000

Arthur C. Clarke’s third law of prediction:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I think Photoshop CS5′s new Content Aware Fill successfully fulfils this requirement. Via John Gruber and reddit.

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