Last week I attended New Adventures in Web Design 2011, and I wanted to write a few thoughts about the day. Instead of a blow-by-blow account I’m going to share what I thought made this conference so special, and why I will be attending again. Continue reading »

If like me you spend a large chunk of your day reading to keep up with the web industry you probably find there aren’t enough hours in the day to get through everything you want to. Over the last few years I have started using podcasts as a way to keep up to speed with our industry and to entertain myself during downtime. Podcasts have become a staple of my weekly routine, I find they are the best way to use those hours of the day I spend travelling to work, driving or doing household chores to do something positive. I listen to a wide range of podcasts and below is a small list of some of my favourites: Web … Continue reading »

The Mac App Store launched today to much fanfare, bringing with it the first apps available for purchase and download. There is fair amount of launch day content (although Espresso is currently absent, which will be my first purchase) including Twitter for Mac. It’s not all great though, as it turns out there is no way to transfer an app purchase to the new app store, meaning you miss out on auto updates and other benefits unless you repurchase the license. So the iLife 11 upgrade I bought in October will have to stay in application limbo until the next paid-for upgrade. As has become the usual from Apple, bittersweet.

RSS has always been a technology that never really fit right with me, until recently I was happy using tabbed bookmarks to fire up my 65+ sites of daily reading, letting them load for 5 minutes or so and then clicking through. Continue reading »