Quoted: If you’re an iPhone developer, then surely you’ve given out promo codes for your apps. Most developers usually just send out the promo codes… sometimes with instructions on how to redeem them… sometimes with no details at all. The latter can obviously be confusing to people who aren’t familiar with the process for redeeming them because it’s not completely obvious as to how to do it.

Quoted: It may be the world’s most popular sans, but Helvetica has many deficiencies – not least its lack of real italics

Resizable full-browser background image with jQuery (preserving aspect ratio)

It shouldn't be this hard!

(saving this because I know I'll want it someday)

Interesting blog post on using mechanical turk for brainstorming from the MIT AI Lab.

Quoted: This week the biggest dust storm in 70 years blew through Australia, and the photos of it were stunning. So on Wednesday at noon, I decided to make a photo magazine. It was published on MagCloud Thursday night. All told, it was 31.5 hours from idea to publication, and that’s with a few hours of sleep thrown in. I think this shows the power of print-on-demand in general, and MagCloud in particular, so I wanted to share my experience and show you how you can do it, too.

Quoted: TBXML is a light-weight XML document parser written in Objective-C designed for use on Apple iPhone / iPod Touch devices. TBXML aims to provide the fastest possible XML parsing whilst utilising the fewest resources. This requirement for absolute efficiency is achieved at the expence of XML validation and modification. It is NOT possible to modify and generate valid XML from a TBXML document and NO validation is performed whatsoever whilst importing and parsing an XML document.

Quoted: A comparison of the best Mac Subversion clients of 2008

From Dipika Kohli of Design Kompany

Quoted: 7 tips for clear writing.

Quoted: It all began because, about 60 years ago, Bernice Gordon found television a bore, except for Milton Berle.

So instead of watching a box with black-and-white pictures, she started creating her own black-and-white boxes: crossword puzzles.

More than a thousand published puzzles later, Gordon, age 95, is still at it, and the honors keep rolling in.