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I really like this photo by photographer 김주원 (Kim Joowon)
http://stuffedman.blog.me/10093205061 »
The force of presence in these shots of Milford Sound. You can’t see these and not imagine some powerful ancient spirits.
A bit belated, but I’ll say one and only one thing regarding Mr. Ebert’s statement on video games: Holy *&@ suntimes.com, why would you load 3300+ comments, some quite lengthy, on the same page!?
Another site.design, again
(Thanks to @photojojo.) Another horizontally awesome photo project/page: We’re All Gonna Die – 100 meters of existence — a project by Simon Hoegsberg.
More Things That Piss Me Off In iTunes.
I’m deleting an App. Why in the world would I want to keep a copy of it in my folder? Why the heck is the default to “Keep Files”? Do people actually keep copies of apps they’ve deleted? It’s not like I can’t just redownload it via the App Store, which is one of the (Few? Ahem.) awesome things of it.
Always, “tab tab tab space” rather than just “enter”. ARGH.
It’s because that’s how most (all proper?) dialogs of similar nature work. As per the Apple Human Interface Guidlines:
default button The button that provides a safe action in a dialog. The default button is indicated by a pulsing appearance. It is activated when the user presses the Return or Enter key.
WHY is png the default for capturing images for Movist? When would I not want to capture in jpeg?
I don’t know.
But I believe it is also PNG by default in VLC as well. I actually wish other players like GOM would have PNG as an option. It’s not too mised because GOM let’s you set JPEG quality.
In general, however, lossy image compression on top of already “lossily-compressed” images just doesn’t sit well with me, especially since the latter was compressed with moving picture optimization in mind and not still images.
re: Google Chrome search engine detection
Not quite perfect. It just added the W3C validator to the list. Or, is it just trying to be clever?
<3 ya Google Chrome.
Like most browsers today, Google Chrome has an interactive address bar that can, among other things, let you quickly execute search queries with a simple keyword specifying which search engine you’d like to use. Turns out, Chrome is smarter (and a little more alive) than most.
I was recently surprised to find that Google Chrome seemed to not only recognize the usual search engines/reference sites, but also the user/community-based knowledge search 지식iN from Korean search portal Naver.
The basic feature was nothing new, keyword-based macros for the address bar have been around since Mozilla in my experience. (Yes, yes, Opera probably had it first.), but seeing Naver or 지식iN included without adding it manually was surprising. Side note, Naver is probably the most popular search portal in Korea. But when this wouldn’t work for a friend, I did a little tinkering and found out there was a little magic going on behind the scenes. First to investigate: What happens if I delete my history?
Then… Voila, no more auto-complete!
And if I do a search normally and thus IMPRINT (okay, all I’m doing is creating an entry in the history)
Look.
It’s back!
Select or just press tab.
Turns out, Google Chrome does keep a list of search engines with customizable keywords. And, unbeknownst to me, has been slowly growing it by simply observing my browser history and I suppose doing some sort of simple matching on the URL string.
And now, at the bottom, our newest member, 지식iN (지식 = Knowledge, thus the K).
Further tinkering with Mr. Josh Kim and it seems the matching occurs in either one or the combination of these two factors, possibly among others:
- The URL string has a pattern of the search query parameter in the URL. I.e., \b[?&]+\w=[A-Za-z0-9_%] or something to that effect. Cases like the example “http://thesite.com/search/mySearchTerm” may not work unless/even with the next condition:
- A form submission that can be identified as a search box. (As a requirement or just coincidence, every experiment that ended with Chrome identifying the search had the search box with term filled in on the results page.)
A little bit more tinkering:
- There seems to need to be a submission. Deleting a search engine entry and simply copy-pasting a URL to a search query or clicking such a link in the browser history does not result in Chrome automatically an entry in the search engine list.
- For search forms with multiple parameters (text input boxes), Chrome will not mistakenly take one or the other for a singular keyword query and add it to the search engine list.
P.S., more love: I don’t know if it’s tumblr or Chrome awesomeness, but after closing this post edit tab accidentally and reopening the closed tab, not a single character was lost.
The Lenovo Mini Wireless Keyboard NS901: my newest favorite gadget.
Another site.design
This site just struck me as a good use of the old, but tried-and-true, default browser scrollbar as a good-design interface.
- The photo and page height is well within single window/monitor range,
- makes better use of widescreen monitors,
- cursor travel as well as needed-accuracy to reach the scrollbar is minimized,
- no chance of temperamental or gawdy custom coded- scrollbar element,
- lets the page blend in more. helped by the (hopefully) native-looking scrollbar.
http://youngnapark.com/bolivia.html
This site as well:http://www.20x200.com/art/2010/02/vhs.html
General clean and clear ascetic. The dual-acting banner/navigational button is nice. (Is it serial list traversing or random access or guided random access?)
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