Miscellaneous

This is the most stunning, blatant, and outright "amazing he's getting away with it" case of artistic theft I've ever witnessed. Les Otten, candidate for Governor of Maine, completely rips-off President Obama's Web site design - pictures prove it.

Apple’s iTunes application is perhaps the most popular app ever installed on the Mac. It’s also one of the least flexible, in terms of customization. There’s little you can do to “make it your own,” so to speak. However, all is not lost for habitual tweakers like myself; the iTunes Visualizer can satisfy your need to not leave well-enough alone.

Apple Announces Netbook! That’s the headline you wanted to see, right? That’s the headline that industry analysts and so-called experts believe Apple must have in order to remain relevant in today’s economic climate. That’s also the headline you’re not likely to come across unless it happens to be April 1.

The truth is, Apple already has a netbook on the market, which they’ve been selling for quite a while now. It’s called the MacBook Air.

Excerpted from Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web
Developers (O'Reilly)

If you’re twittering on behalf of your company or in a primarily professional capacity, you’ve got a few additional challenges to make your Twitter account successful. Here we discuss additional considerations and ideas to make your company’s twittering really sing.
If you want examples of other companies on Twitter, check out TrackingTwitter, which lists brands, media, television and celebrities. Twibs, another directory, isn’t limited to brands. ExecTweets showcases the twittering of businesspeople.
Incidentally, if you’re interested in internal micromessaging for your organization—which a lot of companies find to be an inbox-freeing revelation—two of the top providers are Yammer and Present.ly.

Having used Microsoft Office for many years, despite my utter disdain for it, nobody was happier than me when Apple launched the iWork applications. For my light office application needs, Pages, Keynote and Numbers are just perfect. Here are a few tips I use to make my time in the iWork apps a little easier.

Cloud computing is quietly taking over the world and changing the way we use our computers forever. Whether you're storing your photo collection on Flickr or logging on to Gmail, everyone's now using the cloud, even if they don't realise it. But how does it work and how can we as web designers and developers make it work for us?

Apple has a history of either buying apps or boldly copying features from developers and including them in OS X. So what borrowed features could we see next in OS X?

In May of 2001, Apple opened its first retail outlet store in Tysons Corner, Va. It was immediately met by critics and the typical roster of Apple-haters with predictions of doom and massive financial losses. Eight years later, Apple has more than 255 retail stores worldwide, and are the darling of the retail computer industry. So what makes them so successful?