Devlounge metacool TED Blog Before & After magazine The Laws of Simplicity The Unofficial Google Weblog Better Pop Up Blocker for Chrome blocks pop-ups -- better by Erez Zukerman on November 28, 2010 at 12:31 PM Who doesn't love pop-ups? Really, I mean, it has to be the world's most effective and well-respected mode of advertising. You're browsing along, reading something on the Web, and suddenly your screen explodes with color and NSFW video clips. WidgetBlock for Chrome blocks annoying social widgets, makes Web faster by Erez Zukerman on November 26, 2010 at 10:30 AM The Web is all about being social these days. drag2up for Chrome brings drag-and-drop uploading to the whole Web by Erez Zukerman on November 24, 2010 at 11:00 AM One of my favorite Gmail features is the ability to drag-and-drop attachments onto email messages. Scraper for Chrome lets you easily create spreadsheets from Web data by Erez Zukerman on November 22, 2010 at 02:30 PM Scraping is a technique whereby a website or tool extracts select information from another website. by Jay Hathaway on November 22, 2010 at 01:30 PM
Speak Up › Design Dialog HELLO (AND, WELL, GOODBYE)After nearly seven years of blogging, Speak Up has ceased publication. While this may not be a remarkable amount of time in the world of print and online publishing, the intensity with which we — founders, authors and readers alike — undertook it made it seem as it had been decades. For a thorough description on the reasons to close Speak Up, you may read this post, so as not to take much more space here. This web site is a bare-bones version of the archives for quick and easy perusal of more than 1,600 posts — a replica of Speak Up, as it was on closing day, can be found here, and at any point you can add “as-it-was/” after “speakup/” to the URL to see the original version. To the right you will see all of our categories with a brief description of what you may find. Below are some highlights from our time spent blogging. We hope all this helps maintain the legacy of Speak Up frozen in digital time and that it may be of some use to passersby. WHY SO SERIOUS?
TEDBlog: Why design? Philippe Starck on TED Legendary designer Philippe Starck — with no pretty slides behind him — spends 17 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question “Why design?” Along the way he drops brilliant insights into the human condition; listen carefully for one perfectly crystallized motto for all of us, genius or not. Yet all this deep thought, he cheerfully admits, is to aid in the design of a better toothbrush. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, California. Watch Philippe Starck’s talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances. Read more about Philippe Starck on TED.com. NEW: Read the transcript >> Transcript: Philippe Starck, TED2007 Philippe Starck: Why design? To watch this TEDTalk, download it or comment on it, and to view many more TEDTalks, visit You will understand nothing with my type of English. So! Because there is different types of design. Me, I have no power to change anything.
Blog do Dvorak A bill proposed this week by Assemblywoman Pamela R. Lampitt (D., Camden) would impose a fine of up to $50 and possibly 15 days in jail for pedestrians caught using their cellphones without hands-free devices while walking on public sidewalks and along roadways.If the bill becomes law, “petextrians” – people who text while walking – would face the same penalties as jaywalkers in New Jersey.“I see it every single day,” Lampitt said Friday. Another study, from Safe Kids Worldwide, a Washington-based nonprofit, found that 40 percent of teens said they had been hit or nearly hit by a car, bike, or motorcycle while walking.The survey of more than 1,000 children between ages 13 and 18 found that 47 percent of those who said they were hit or almost hit were listening to music, 20 percent were talking on the phone, and 18 percent were texting, researchers said. In a world populated with idiots, the banning of risky behavior has its downside.