Extra Future

Year: 2012

  • PNGPress

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    Phil Nelson
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    [PNGPress, my PNG image compressor for Mac OS X, is available on the Mac App Store worldwide.][link] >Good developers know that making images for the web is a constant battle between quality and file size. Great developers use PNGPress. Try it and see for yourself. Here are some promo codes: WHW94KHHE6A4 TNEMH4JKHP3M HXJEMTHHPLHW 3XFE7AWMYJMX 6ALNJWWWYJJ4…

  • Twitter Introduces the Innovator’s Patent Agreement

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    [Good news on this Tuesday morning:][link] >The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers. It is a commitment from Twitter to our employees that patents can only be used for defensive purposes. We will not use the patents from employees’ inventions in offensive…

  • Josh Clark .vs. Jakob Nielsen on Mobile Usability

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    [Kid gloves are off, and I’m with Clark:][link] >For all of Jakob Nielsen’s many great contributions to web usability over the years, his advice for mobile is just 180-degrees backward. His latest guidelines perpetuate several stubborn mobile myths that have led too many to create ‘lite’ mobile experiences that patronise users, undermine business goals, and…

  • Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story

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    Phil Nelson
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    >Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. [I’m a complete sucker for Vonnegut.][link] [link]: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/print/2012/04/kurt-vonneguts-8-tips-on-how-to-write-a-great-story/255401/ “Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story – Entertainment – The Atlantic”

  • James Bridle’s Coverage of The New Aesthetic Panel at SXSW 2012

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    >[At SXSW this year, I asked four people to comment on the New Aesthetic, which if you don’t know is an investigation / project / tumblr looking at technologically-enabled novelty in the world.][link] Consider it a companion / primer to the [Bruce Sterling essay linked here previously.][prev] [link]: http://booktwo.org/notebook/sxaesthetic/ “#sxaesthetic | booktwo.org” [prev]: http://extrafuture.com/2012/04/07/bruce-sterlings-essay-on-the-new-aesthetic/ “Bruce…

  • Bruce Sterling’s Essay on the New Aesthetic

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    Phil Nelson
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    [I’ve spent an embarrassingly large portion of this week parsing Bruce’s 5000-word ramblerant on The New Aesthetic][link]. Consider it required reading for anyone who makes or designs. [link]: http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/04/an-essay-on-the-new-aesthetic/ “An Essay on the New Aesthetic | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com”

  • Stanley Kubrick’s Alternate Titles For Dr. Strangelove

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    Phil Nelson
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    Personal favorite: [DR. DOOMSDAY AND HIS NUCLEAR WISEMEN][link], which sounds a lot like a Warren Ellis story. [link]: http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/04/dr-strangelove.html “Lists of Note”

  • aws – simple access to Amazon EC2 and S3

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    Phil Nelson
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    [A working and feature-rich command-line interface for Amazon S3 and EC2][link]. Pretty cool. via [@joshu][josh] [link]: http://timkay.com/aws/ “aws – simple access to Amazon EC2 and S3” [josh]: http://twitter.com/joshu

  • Beautiful web type

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    Phil Nelson
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    [A collection / demo of the “best” typefaces from Google’s web font directory][link]. Well-curated and paired nicely. This is a great resource. [link]: http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/ “Beautiful web type — the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory”

  • Apple’s Solution To Image Resolution On The Web

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    Phil Nelson
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    [The image-set() function][link], which was submitted to the css4-images public mailing list earlier this year. [link]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Feb/1103.html “[css4-images] The image-set() function (for responsive images) from Edward O'Connor on 2012-02-22 (www-style@w3.org from February 2012)”

  • BrowserQuest

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    Phil Nelson
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    [An HTML5-based massively multiplayer game using WebSockets.][link] I’ve been wishing for something like this to exist for years now. [link]: http://browserquest.mozilla.org/ “BrowserQuest”

  • The importance of a response.

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Authentic Jobs is adding a user-viewable metric for the response rates of potential employers][link]. I love these guys. [link]: http://authenticjobs.tumblr.com/post/19742577782/response-rate “Authentic Jobs, The importance of a response.”