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So Steve Jobs finally posted the reasoning for his decision to kill Flash, in any form, on the iPhone/iPad platform. continue

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It’s only software – but for creative types, every upgrade to Adobe’s professional bundle can be a life-changing experience. continue

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DTP software was conceived as a jack of all trades and master of none. You’d prepare your photos in Photoshop, illustrations in Illustrator and words in Word, then import them. These days, though, it’s increasingly feasible to do it all in InDesign. continue reading excerpt

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Linotype writes: ‘Until recently, it was difficult for web developers to work with any fonts outside of the few common “web safe” selections.’ Until recently? continue

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Puh? Meh

Blogged on 1 July 2009

Ricoh, best known for the kind of office machines bought by people who still call things ‘office machines’, has launched a cloud archive service called quanp. continue

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Scroll out the barrel

Off topic on 20 April 2009

One of the things I’ve been pondering while relaunching this site is the practicality of reading long text – specifically, pieces that have been written primarily for print and reproduced online – in a web page. continue

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‘Writing about music is like dancing about architecture,’ as somebody said. I wonder what they’d have thought of writing books about computing. continue

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This month I decided to install WordPress. I wanted to update my blog from Blogger 1.0 to something that acknowledged the existence of any form of web standard other than ‘sod it, seems to be working’, and since Blogger 2.0 appeared to bear as much resemblance to Blogger 1.0 as Jordan does to her school photos, I thought I might as well switch to something more credible. continue

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It’s not every day you get to meet the world’s most famous graphic designer. Not even when it’s in his diary. continue

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Why web design sucks

In print on 5 August 2005

Creating a website used to be so simple. With two lines of code you could make a grey background, print your name on it in big black letters, and win an award from Jakob Nielsen. continue

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