Weblog of Fernando Reig Matthies

This is a Test

Testing from Flock 2.0.
Still buggy on Mac, let’s see if this version is what version 1 should have been… Looks promising. Tags: browserweb mac 2.0

Twitter in plain english

Via Common Craft

Flight status with Google

Did you know that when searching with Google for a flight number you get back departue and arriving information of that flight?

Songza: search engine & internet jukebox

Songza is the brainchild of 23-year-old Aza Raskin the president of Chicago-based software company Humanized, Inc., and the son of Apple Macintosh founder Jef Raskin.
Over the course of a month, he and Humanized’s Web/Systems Architect Scott Robbin worked weekends to bring the idea to life. The site launched on November 8, 2007 and instantly generated [...]

Blueprint: A CSS Framework

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.  
Features:

An easily customizable grid
Sensible typography
A baseline (like the background here)
Perfected CSS reset
A stylesheet for [...]

BumpTop desktop is a beautiful mess

I had seen a demo of BumpTop before on YouTube and for many weeks there where rumors about Leopard, Apple’s new OS X 10.5, getting this sort of interface for it’s new Finder.
Nothing of that will happen, as Steve Jobs told us at the last WWDC ‘07, what we know is that we will get [...]

Microsoft and Yahoo, Sitting in a Tree

Great John Gruber posted the following thoughts a few months ago. I had this in my Drafts folder, waiting to have some time to discuss some ideas I had about it.
But you know what? I waited too much now it’s not going to happen but wanted to share this with you anyways.
In essence: A Yahoo [...]

The iPhone Threat to Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, Real, BREW, Symbian

In any case, the iPhone is Apple’s best shot at killing Flash, and Apple appears happy to be using it as such. The company just recently removed all remains of Flash from its corporate website, implementing everything that had been Flash-based using standards-based Ajax techniques instead.
Apple recently convinced Google to start offering its YouTube videos [...]

Apple Evolution Timeline

Still some peripherals and computers missing, but a very interesting collection.
From those depicted (and some missing) there I have been a proud owner of:

Apple // europlus
Apple ///
Apple Macintosh SE 1/20
Apple Macintosh LC II
Apple Newton MP2000 (upgraded to MP2100 and still with me)
Apple PowerBook G4 17”
Apple PowerBook G4 15”
Apple MacBook Pro 15” (my current Mac)
Apple iPod [...]

bgcolor follies

If you forget to set your site’s background color, your visitors may do it for you. A mini-photo gallery. Collect your own!
In three minutes, he found three sites that forgot this basic rule of web design.
Apple seems to have forgotten it’s background color at the Safari page. Don’t forget to check your own site as [...]