Daring Fireball

A thoroughly researched epic typographic saga, by Paul Shaw.
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Comprehensive coverage from Jesse David Hollington for iLounge, describing and showing what’s new in today’s iPhone OS 2.2 update.
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When you save a picture to your photo roll from email or the web, if the picture is larger than the iPhone display (480?×?320 pixels), the iPhone displays a scaled-up thumbnail rather than a scale...

Ryan Singer on Ffffound’s excellent keyboard shortcuts. Design isn’t just how things look — it’s about the experience of using them. (The Boston Globe’s Big Picture uses similar shortcuts.)
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DF reader Mark Handel, via email:
I can’t remember — does the iPod Touch have a proximity sensor?
If it does not, that’s probably the reason that the proximity
sensor is undocumented: Apple is ...

New section on Apple’s iPhone web site promoting third-party apps. Interesting for at least two reasons: (1) I’ve already found a couple of interesting apps I’d never heard of before, and (2) it s...

Google’s just-released and much-publicized update to their Google Mobile iPhone app features some very clever interaction design for the voice search feature. There is an on-screen button you can ...

I’ve played a bunch of iPhone games that, while fun on the computer, just don’t translate well to the iPhone. Games that are best suited to control using a keyboard, joystick, or mouse often just ...

Some of these photographs in Google’s new Life archive make me insatiably curious about the articles that accompanied them in the magazine. Like, say, this series from 1959 featuring a two-year-ol...

Mena Trott skewers Valleywag’s Owen Thomas. The perfect response to a jackass post.
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