The team behind Firefox 3 plans to ditch the unified cross-platform look of the browser in favor of a sexier look tailored to specific operating systems. Rather than a single look across all platforms, which is the way Firefox currently ships, Firefox 3 will feature different skins for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X [...]
A small ruby program which connects to your servers via SSH, grabs and parses data from Apache or Rails,and displays your traffic and statistics in real-time using a simple OpenGL interface.
It’s a bit hard to explain in words, so please have a look at the site for an example movie and more information.
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An amazing article about the history of, and degradation of, type in the Toronto Subway system by the indomitable Joe Clark. Anyone who loves design, typography, and information design would do well to read this (admittedly, you’ll need an hour or two to get through it all). It also features quotes and ideas from Massimo [...]
“Programmer’s Day is celebrated annually on the 256th day of the year, which happens to be today — so reach over and give that special computer scientist in your life a big bear hug, flowers, chocolates, or a simple “thanks” for making Engadget (and pretty much everything else we care about) possible.”
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NEW YORK (Adage.com) — Neiman Marcus is taking over the YouTube home page today to promote its 100th anniversary via a video showing off the store’s style savvy. If YouTube and the upscale department store best known for catering to the …
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