Linked List: January 11, 2010

Monday, 11 January 2010

Tim Van Damme: Dreaming of an Apple Tablet ★: Lovely diagrams, too.
iSaidWhat ★: Clever, usable, well-designed $2 audio waveform editor for the iPhone, premised on the idea of making edited gag recordings of your friends. The waveform trimming and editing feature is just great — I wish the iPhone OS’s built-in “trim” UI worked more like this.
Against Small Caps for Acronyms ★: Joe Clark argues that the problem isn’t (just) old-style 1’s that look like small-cap I’s, but the practice of setting acronyms in small caps.
Om Malik: Motorola Should Buy Palm ★: I agree with Om. If you want to compete in today’s mobile market, you need great software. The problem with Android for Motorola is that they don’t own the software. If they bought Palm, they would.
Typeface Designers Wrestle With the World of Pixels ★: Speaking of typography, Alice Rawsthorn has a profile of H&FJ type designers Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, regarding the difficulties they face in the shift from print to pixels.
Al Gore’s Number 1 ★: Al Gore, seeker of typographic clarity. (Most of Edward Tufte’s marvelous books, set in Bembo, use an old-style numeral 1 similar to the unambiguous figure preferred by Gore.)