http://www.50stories.com Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:16:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How many times have you redrawn a dropdown box or browser chrome in Fireworks or Photoshop? I'm too stubborn / lazy / unorganized to search for those bits in old projects (if i was smart, which i am not, i would create my own web interface palette). This may be ... http://www.50stories.com/2008/08/05/design-resources-web-interface-psds-etc/ Business Guys on Business Trips New every Monday http://www.50stories.com/2008/07/31/business-guys-on-business-trips-new-every-monday/ [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flHDgN9_iw8] I was transfixed by these animations. I found it interesting all the different ways the characters transition, and how differently each report is shown. This seems to come from a time when there was time to fill on the air vs. now where everything is templated and reusable. Someone took these ... http://www.50stories.com/2008/07/28/who-else-the-weatherman/ Now that you have had a few weeks to download all 500 apps and try them. Which ones are you glad you bought / wish you hadn't / are cursing the amount of time you are using it / are cursing the amount of your life you won't get back ... http://www.50stories.com/2008/07/22/what-iphone-apps-are-you-using/ Yes I'm lame enough to test out the wordpress client on here. It's actually pretty nice but I don't know how useful it would be without cut and paste. http://www.50stories.com/2008/07/22/omg-iphone-post/ In all my years of studying douchebaggery, never have i encountered anything like this. http://www.50stories.com/2008/06/30/the-douchiest-phone-message-in-history/ this damn emotionless flickr face is now so creepy for me to see.  I'll check my flickr and have some recent activity of all these faceless flickr people adding my pictures as favorites.  But there seems to be a trend of the same pictures getting added as favorites, like a ... http://www.50stories.com/2008/06/25/creepy-flickr-people/ this baby comes out in october, 2008... and i can't wait. http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MTL9663 http://www.50stories.com/2008/06/16/october-cannot-get-here-soon-enough/ i never really understood this whole phenom... but just last week, my brother took my 9 yr.-old nephew to a cubs game... later, i asked him who won and how he liked the game. all he could talk about was how the other team was "owned". he didn't just say it ... http://www.50stories.com/2008/06/03/pwned/ Although certainly not with the same volume, i think we are starting to see homebrew games equal, and sometimes, surpass, commercially developed games on the DS. Here comes a Portal homage on the DS: Still Alive DS. For a version 1.0 game this is one fairly polished gem. The best ... http://www.50stories.com/2008/06/02/portal-in-your-pants-still-alive-ds-portal-port/