This past year, I’ve tried an experiment on the site. I’ve replaced the ‘text select’ cursor that shows when mousing over text on a website with the default arrow cursor. It’s almost an unnoticeable change, which is the point. It seems to me that changing to the text select cursor is somewhat of a distraction. There [...]

They may not be as creative as all the sketch-based notes out there, but here’s what I got out of some of the South By Southwest Interactive panels I went to this year: Sketching: Mood boarding for getting a good sense of the style Concept sketching for early stage visualizing of various pieces Process: Design, [...]

Two kinds of technologies have in recent months changed my daily habits and how I interact with people: web-based apps and smartphones. Let’s start with web-based apps. For email I’ve been using Gmail for over three years now and is in my opinion the best email app around, web-based or desktop-based. For keeping track of [...]

Three years after the Xbox 360′s release comes a new version of the Xbox… software. In a similar move to the Zune, Microsoft has decided to focus on software upgrades for improving their current hardware. While some would say the new interface overhaul was unecessary, after actually using it for a while, besides being prettier, it starts [...]

Sam and Max is a video game series that originally started back in 1993. It made a comeback a couple of years ago in the form of episodic gaming, releasing one ‘episode’ each month for a ‘season’ of six episodes. It’s sorta like a tv show where each episode can be played on its own, [...]