Dan Lurie
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Filed under: Design, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux
Color Oracle
by Dan Lurie May 21st 2007
It would be great to get some feedback on this app from actual colorblind readers– perhaps even colorblind designer Jon Hicks of Firefox fame?
[via Daring Fireball]
Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Office, Google
NYC Google Earth Mega Pack
by Dan Lurie May 15th 2007
While the Mega Pack has a more complete set of transit routes, Brian Abbott's New York City Subway for Google Earth layer is a bit cleaner and easier to read.
[via Dan Dickinson]
Filed under: Internet, News, Web services, Yahoo!, Social Software
Upcoming.org Redesigns, Merges With Yahoo Accounts, Gives Stuff Away
On the redesign side of the news, the new look is cleaner, faster to load, and introduces a whole new way of browsing events which centers around more specific metro's and integrated maps. The new interface is overall more media driven, and resembles in a way the recent Facebook redesign.
In addition to the most obvious changes mentioned above, Upcoming.org is no longer actually upcoming.org, but upcoming.yahoo.com.
Update: Apparently the updates were not unannounced; they were posted on the official blog multiple times. They did not, however, send an email notice to users in the same way Flickr did.
Filed under: Business, Design, Windows, Macintosh
Free Barcode Creation Software
by Dan Lurie Apr 11th 2007
Being a designer requires at least some degree of perfectionism, a fact which often boils to the surface when working with imperfect tools– such as when one needs to create a barcode for a package or book cover design. We know of more than a few designers who have gone so far as to attempt to re-create an authentic looking barcode in Illustrator– something that takes way too much time and energy to be practical.Fortunately for us and others (who probably need barcodes to, you know, allow the scanning of things), Wolf Software provides professional quality barcode creation software free of charge for both Mac and Windows. In addition to the old standby's of UPC and ISBN, users have the option to choose from a large variety of other barcode formats, including Datamatix (pictured here encoding "Download Squad").
[Via creativebits]
Filed under: Internet, Web services
Free TimesSelect for Higher Education
True enough, I could probably get all that through the databases I already have access to, but the ease of being able to simply log into the NYT site to view an article instead of having to look it up in a database goes a long way.
Unfortunately, it seems that @alumni.school.edu and similar addresses are ineligible for this offer.
[via Consumerist]
Wordpress 2.1.1 may contain nasty surprise
Breaking news on the internets right now as Matt over at WordPress is reporting some serious issues with packages of WordPress 2.1.1 downloaded over the past 3-4 days. According to a blog post, a malicious intruder gained access to the wordpress.org servers and modified the files being made available for download. How exactly this happened is still unknown. The long-and-short of the situation is ...The Museum of Modern Betas
You know we're living in a beta world, and I am a beta girl guy. It seems that we're constantly hearing announcements about "The Next Big Thing" to reach private beta and how totally awesome it is - and then the waiting game begins. True to boom form, most of the services never actually make it public (I'm currently wearing a shirt advertising Life IO, which was supposed to launch in September.) ...Google Maps adds 3D(ish) buildings, public transport
I'm a very visual person, so when planning a trip, I like to have some sort of idea of what my destination looks like. Google Earth and the 3D imagery it provides a great way to get a feel for where you're going, but it's not always practical to open up such a resource intensive application when you just need a quick glimpse of the area. True to ever-improving form, The Big G this morning ...Microsoft Gets Desperate - Free Vista Business, Office Pro 2007
by Dan Lurie Nov 28th 2006 {58 comments}
This isn't exactly the kind of promotion one normally sees leading up to a major OS update. PowerTogether.com is a promotion put on officially by Microsoft offering full licenses of Windows Vista Business or Microsoft Office Professional 2007 to any US resident (sorry international readers) willing to watch 3 (for each license) informational video or interactive presentations, answer a few ...Hitchsters
Cabs are expensive, especially when considering that in most situations one can take public transport for about a fourth of the price. But for those times when you simply have to get somewhere quickly and with minimal hassle, taking a taxi is often the only option. Readers in large megalopolis's will be familiar with the idea of sharing a cab with a stranger, and the rest of us might have seen ...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
