mindgarden

Yesterday I’ve updated the magnum website starter kit on github to version 1.1

Included in the kit now are the modernizr library (hop over to Yaili’s article on the Web Designer Notebook for more on modernizr) and a sample implementation of font embedding.

The font embedding uses the very nice Sorts Mill Goudy from the League of Movable Type

Go to the github page to download magnum

(image by khem93)

Newspaper companies are having a hard time adjusting to a world in which people use the internet. And especially since Rupert Murdoch accused Search Engines of stealing their content and announced that he would make people pay to read News Corp. content there is a lot of discussion about how the future of the news industry will look like.

Yesterday Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google posted his view on things in an article on Wall Street Journal , envisioning the future to look like this:

It’s the year 2015. The compact device in my hand delivers me the world, one news story at a time. I flip through my favorite papers and magazines, the images as crisp as in print, without a maddening wait for each page to load.

Apparently newspaper companies are indeed working on that future right now. Time Inc. have just released a demo of a tablet-targeted version of Sports Illustrated which gives a good impression of how they want to justify taking money for content in the digital age:

Also, the New York Times have recently released their Times Skimmer which is an alternative Interface for their headlines. What they’ve come up with is really nice I think. It is especially nice to see that they did not implement it in a proprietary format like Flash or Silverlight but instead used open standards like HTML and CSS (with some nice HTML5 and CSS3 highlights sprinkled on top). And they’re using @font-face through Typekit as well.

I have very big news. This morning I have signed the contract with my new employer. From January I will be joining the Google Webmaster Team at the London office.

Needless to say, I am thrilled to have this opportunity and I am looking forward to joining the team in the new year. There are a lot of great things coming from Google lately and the prospect of being able to play a part in this is fantastic. I can honestly say that I’ve never been this excited about a new job.

Unfortunately every new job also means the end of an old one and so I’m sad to say good bye to all the great people at eConversions It’s only been a little less than a year since I started working there and I will miss them all.

Tim Brown, the guy behind the fantastic Nice Web Type Site wrote an article for A List Apart recently, called Real Web Type in Real Web Context

In his article he presented Web Font Specimen a bundle of a few files that let you try out fonts in browsers really quickly. Combine it with touchQuery and you end up with a nice way of trying out type in a real browser invironment

I had a play with it myself, so here is the Web Font Specimen for Fontin , the font I’m using for my headings: Fontin – Web Font Specimen

So wird das iPhone zum Taschenofen:

Dein iPhone auf die neueste Firmware 3.1.2 updaten und mit blackra1n nach folgender Anleitung jailbreaken. Cydia als Installer.app auswählen damit OpenSSH, MobileTerminal installieren. Terminal öffnen und folgenden Programmcode eintippen und ausführen lassen:

while true
do
echo 'getting me hot'
done;


Danach das iPhone wie gewohnt in die Tasche stecken. Nach ein paar Minuten wird das kleine Mobilgerät zu einem praktischen Taschenwärmer für die kalten Stunden. Viel Spaß beim Ausprobieren ;)

Anmerkung: Das Jailbreak und die Applikation sind wärmsten zu empfehlen, den Programmcode muss man aber nicht unbedingt ausführen…

Erkärung: Der Codeschnipsel löst eine Endlosschleife aus, die den kompletten Prozessor belegt. Das verbraucht eine Menge Strom. Die Folge: der Akku läuft heiss und erhitzt das Gerät.