Tumbles

The tumblelog of Ollie Relph. A London-based interface designer & web developer.

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Tages-Anzeiger Before-After (via iA Inc.)

Smarter playlist (.m3u) handling in iTunes

finermac:

I dropped a folder of mp3s that also included an associated .m3u playlist onto iTunes 9. Lo and behold iTunes didn’t double up the tracks! Yay, finally! Previously I’d always needed to remove any playlists before adding to the Library.

As a tiny experiment, I dropped just the .m3u file and iTunes added the tracks fine. Seems iTunes now knows to ignore them when appropriate. About time, really.

evrt:

NYC by Jeff Rogers (view large)

This is completely awesome. I want a giant print of this in my house.

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finermac:
More applications are getting smart about being offline. Instead of throwing a wrench into your workflow with a modal dialog or doing nothing at all, Chill Pill, a desktop client for a self-hosted newsreader called Fever, displays a large, unobtrusive alert in its main window.

finermac:

More applications are getting smart about being offline. Instead of throwing a wrench into your workflow with a modal dialog or doing nothing at all, Chill Pill, a desktop client for a self-hosted newsreader called Fever, displays a large, unobtrusive alert in its main window.

matthewb:

Promotional poster for 95bFM by Andrew Archer. He’s also been working up a new poster for the 10th Annual 24-Hour Movie Marathon in Auckland over Hallowe’en.

SpriteMe 

A very clever bookmarklet by Steve Souders that examines the background images on a page and automatically generates CSS sprites (and recomputes all background positions!) based on how the images are used in the page, and grouping by size. The interface displays a running tally of the number of HTTP requests saved as well as the reduction in filesize. My only (very minor) complaint is the manual work required to fold the changes back into the source CSS files, but this is genius. (via Tim Dawson)