links for 2005-10-09 By Nic Price on 10 October 2005 — 1 min read PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer Having given up with my PalmPilot a few years ago I’ve been looking for a suitable replacement. I think I’ve found it! (tags: personalorganiser pocketmod paper productivity gtd gettingthingsdone) More
links for 2005-10-08 By Nic Price on 9 October 2005 — 1 min read Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen Really useful site for seeing how content will look in different fonts. Thus beatnic.co.uk now in Trebuchet (tags: fonts userinterface typetester typefaces) More
Google reader By Nic Price on 8 October 2005 — 1 min read I’ve been trying out the newly launched Google reader, which I was alerted to via my Bloglines subscription to a Google blog – oh my aren’t we just sooo post-modern 😉 You need a Google account (gmail address) to use it. Like gmail it makes extensive use of ajax for screen-based rather than page-based interactions.... More
links for 2005-10-07 By Nic Price on 8 October 2005 — 1 min read start · The Design Encyclopedia It’s a wiki. Via Peter Bogaards newsletter (tags: design wiki encyclopedia) More
A few quick notes from IBF Live 2005 By Nic Price on 7 October 2005 — 1 min read I met and listened to lots of new and and interesting people at the annual IBF conference this week. “The user arrives running”, and so did Ted Nelson, as Martin Leith put it, the “ht” in html. Ted shared with us his sideways view on the world. When asked to describe a computer we describe... More
Bunny ha ha or bunny peculiar? By Nic Price on 7 October 2005 — 1 min read I’m happy to fall for this great publicity for the film which I’m really looking forward to and will gladly walk under a ladder to get to. Posters for the new Wallace and Gromit film on a south coast island will not feature the word “rabbit” because of a local superstition. […] In Portland [Dorset],... More
We won an award :) By Nic Price on 7 October 2005 — 1 min read Sarah, Andy and I picked up the Best Intranet Award for Best Content, awarded to the BBC for it’s intranet Gateway which we all work on. Pictured with Paul Miller, Chairman of the Intranet Benchmarking Forum. More
links for 2005-10-04 By Nic Price on 5 October 2005 — 1 min read Fairvue Central >> Designs I like his designs and he does some brilliant stuff with CSS (tags: design webdesign css) More
And it’s goodnight from him By Nic Price on 4 October 2005 — 1 min read Ronnie Barker (1929-2005) Genius comic actor – a very funny man More
Google calendar imminent? By Nic Price on 4 October 2005 — 1 min read I’ve been looking for some open source calendar software to sit alongside my blog for my own personal use and to share if useful one or two event categories with friends and family Having just read that a google calendar might be with us within a month, I might just wait and see what it... More