Tag: DARING FIREBALL

It's a bit early to start claiming that Flash's days are numbered, but there are a few of us that are frustrated with Flash's performance (and crashiness). If you're starting to get frustrated about dealing with Flash, but are still craving full-featured web applications, there's some good news on the horizon. New apps are starting to get developed with comparable functionality to Flash, but with ...

Flash is a much-maligned technology as of late, but for good reason! In as much as it helped usher the web forward with a standard way to present streaming video, its performance issues are a huge step backwards, particularly for mobile users. A great solution that we've previously discussed is Click To Flash, but part of the reason it's a good solution is that it lets you start the embedded flash ...

Liquid Scale is an iPhone / iPod Touch app that allows you to resize images by removing unimportant elements in the photo, leaving the important ones untouched. It's a technique called seam carving that we've previously mentioned, but what's interesting here is that it's now available to be used on the iPhone. For those that are unfamiliar with it, the seam carving technique analyzes images to ...

We mentioned Stikkit, a new sort of online PIM with a twist, earlier this month, and one of my favorite bloggers on all things Mac and design, John Gruber, has gone and reviewed the crap out of it. It's a long read but worthwhile, especially if you're interested in the finer details the company focused on. John explores the format of the notes and the syntax with which they're created, pointing ...