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Kitsimons is the online home of Simon Kitson, a web designer with a healthy enthusiasm for standards-compliant,
accessible design and a penchant for blogging about nothing in particular.
A Virus for Mac, You Say?
02/12/08
I'm in a bad mood today, but getting home and reading articles like Can the Mac catch a cold on the BBC's dot.life blog just irritates me even further.
I'm sorry Rory Cellan-Jones, but that's simply a poorly thought out, poorly written article and I'm amazed that something so ill-conceived can make it onto a blog that is no doubt held in high regard by so many.
The anti-Mac crowd may wish to turn away now (or alternatively start a fight in the comments...)
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Not So Mighty Mouse
07/10/08
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After over a year of devoted service, my Apple Mighty Mouse has succumbed to the widely reported broken ball
syndrome.
In spite of various attempts at resuscitation, including blasting the scroll ball with compressed air and following various other suggestions, the ball refuses to track up and its ability to track down is fading fast.
Time for a replacement mouse. Any recommendations would be much appreciated.
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Penalty Charge Notice
24/09/08
They say no good deed goes unpunished. My karmic kick in the arse came today in the form of a parking ticket, issued while I was giving a pro bono presentation on web design to a series of community groups and charities here in Leicester.
35 hard earned British Pounds if I cough up within 2 weeks. Thank you cruel world.
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iTunes 8 - Hide the Genre when Browsing
10/09/08
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I'm one of those people who makes absolutely no use of the Genre in iTunes. As such I've always hidden the Genre when browsing, mainly to avoid having to stare at a disorganised, redundant mess of a column in my iTunes library.
The Genre could always be turned off by un-checking an option in iTunes' general preferences. Imagine my horror then when I installed iTunes 8 and realised the option to hide the Genre when browsing had vanished! Surely I wasn't going to have to suffer the visual pollution of a messy, useless pane in my iTunes library?
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Olympic Medal Table Agendas
20/08/08
Browsing through the Olympic medal tables on CNN yesterday, I came across a glaring example of media bias. CNN's Olympic medal table eschews the weighted system used by the IOC (and the rest of the World) in favour of a blunt total medal count
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Surprise, surprise, the total medal count puts the USA top of the medal table. The problem, of course, is that the USA is not top of the Olympic medal table. At the time of posting, China tops the table by quite a margin, with the USA in 2nd place.
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Notes
For those of us who have sent drunken late-night emails only to regret it come the cold light of day, the new Mail Goggles feature in Gmail is likely to save much embarrassment.
Novel use of You Tube for promoting the launch of Wario Land: Shake It! on the Wii. Very nicely done.
Super sexy Pantone Mugs. Available from Supernice (and other retailers). Sweet.- Nice Nike Football ad from Madonna's better half.
- Top marks for the realigned BBC News website, bringing it more in line with the lovely new, jQuery driven, BBC homepage.
Beautiful full-screen image browsing served up by the snazzy PicLens plug-in. Impressive, though practicality is debatable.- Yahoo shifts to search the
semantic web
. Potentially huge, and very welcome news for usstandards nuts
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The Coke Zero Game. Latest masterpiece from the infuriatingly talented North Kingdom.
It's sites like the Red Bull Flight Lab that remind you what Flash is for. Brilliant application and an awful lot of fun.- Rejoice! The new Indiana Jones trailer has finally made an appearance. Can't wait.
Huddle
Front-end template build for Huddle online collaboration tool website










