The folks at Atlassian are running a cool deal: $5 for JIRA and Confluence, and proceeds go to Room to Read, which establishes schools and libraries around the world.
macprime.ch has just released a new style for NetNewsWire that’s clean and easy-to-read. Nice work.
stevenf.com: “It seems a bit fatalistic, but I can’t think of a way that the entire desktop metaphor can be overhauled without either everyone in the world switching over at once...”
I don’t know about you, but I know this issue is always in the back of my head. There’s a nagging feeling that we’re doing it wrong, that there are some leaps forward we’re missing, that we’re still stuck in 1984.
I feel as if it’s my responsibility as a software developer to help figure out what comes after the desktop metaphor, and I feel a little bad that we haven’t delivered it yet.
Dan Burcaw: “Consumers desire inspired apps — those rich with attention to detail.”