http://erikgibb.com/blog A clean, well-lighted place for me to blather Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:54:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The good: It's a pretty box, with delightfully clear LEDs - simple red lights for recording: two of them means both receivers are firing. The swivel search is awesome. I'm a huge fan of imdb when it comes to checking out actors/resses and "what else have I seen them in." This ... http://erikgibb.com/blog/2007/10/28/new-tivo-hd-lovehate/ Yahoo's experimental thingies site is offline during a redesign. The page letting you know it's down is pretty funny: Like flickr, it's not taken too seriously. http://erikgibb.com/blog/2007/10/01/nextyahoocom-a-sense-of-humor/ When Lialina writes about what she calls the "Starry Night Background," a popular web design conceit of the mid-90s, it's hard not to feel a tinge of nostalgia. I haven't seen a web page use a tiled jpeg of outer space as its background image in years, and, seeing one ... http://erikgibb.com/blog/2007/09/02/design-observer-writings-about-design-culture/ I love my iPhone. You're experience designers rocked it out with an interface that is so utterly delightful I can overlook a dumbfounding amount of missing apps (iTunes purchases, ringtone management, profiles, bluetooth contact and data transfer, flipped keyboards everywhere, yadda yadda) and bad behavior (Crashing Safari, sporadic munging of ... http://erikgibb.com/blog/2007/08/02/dear-apple/ Has anyone noticed that the flick-scroll gesture for the iPhone is the opposite of the double finger flick-scroll on the macbook? The phone uses a more natural metaphor. I was a late adaptor of the double finger scroll on the macbook, and the iphone reversoswitcho is really messing with my ... http://erikgibb.com/blog/2007/07/18/apple-gesture-dissonance/ Of course there was the fun "alleged" consumer fraud they perpetrated by using a secret internal site to "prove" to customers that the "deals" found on the real web site were no longer valid. And then there's this gem from the store locator: Why on earth, or at least in the ... http://erikgibb.com/blog/2007/07/04/bestbuy-worstexperience/ I'm too old and too closeted of a fanboy to have waited in line like so many hundreds of others at any of the stores in the bay area today. But I ordered an 8GB version online last night as soon as the Apple store finished updating. Shipping in 2-4 ... http://erikgibb.com/blog/2007/06/30/no-iphone-goodness-for-me-today/ I love me some Apple, but I have a problem with the way they implemented search in mail.app and iTunes. Let's say I want to search for and subscribe to the podcast "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!". I open iTunes: Next, I type in my query in the search box: Oops. It's ... http://erikgibb.com/blog/2007/06/26/search-in-apple-mail-and-itunes-why-oh-why-did-my-query-go-away-when-i-switched-context/ While it was hard to miss that Apple.com received a complete redesign with this week's WWDC events, the finer points of the site's new functionality are now coming into the, erm... spotlight. Eagle-eyed TUAW readers have been commenting and reporting on a number of interesting new enhancements to apple.com's abilities, ... http://erikgibb.com/blog/2007/06/15/applecom-adds-federated-search-recent-searches-and-ratings/ A decent and fun what, why, and how of RSS (Found on http://bokardo.com/) http://erikgibb.com/blog/2007/06/10/rss-in-plain-english/