September 2010
5 posts
102-Year-Old Lens on a Canon 5D Mark II DSLR →
Dreamlike results.
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Maybe Google Instant isn't as Fast as I Think →
I’d trust Search Engine Land to have the right data, but I’m surprised that the “formulating query” stage of searching is so quick. Still, Google says that half a second leads to 30% increase in searches, so 2 seconds could be quite the boost.
I fall right in line with SEL’s thoughts on how this will affect incoming terms. They might shift to shorter terms, but...
UIEtips: How to Create a UX Design Library →
I got it wrong. It was the other day when I was talking with EightShapes’ Nathan Curtis while recording an upcoming podcast.
As we were talking, I had suggested that a UX Design Library was a…
A Failure of Ethics in Journalism →
Crazy Apple Rumors: Just as reporters in the 1930s helped cover up Roosevelt’s illness and in the 1960′s helped cover up Kennedy’s philandering, we in the Apple press community help cover up the…
Google Instant Proves Me Wrong
A few months back I wrote a bit about Minimalist Google, and how the Big G was sacrificing “load” speed (the amount of time it takes the browser to download and render a page) to decrease Focus and Query time (or increase perceived speed).
I have no reliable way to test, but I’d guess this new page loads and renders slower than it’s less-fancy ancestor. If microseconds count — a...